Ford Motor Co. said the Johnson Controls-Saft joint venture will supply batteries for a 20-vehicle test fleet of plug-in Escape Hybrid SUVs that will arrive in California by the end of 2009.
The first vehicle of the test fleet arrived at a California utility company in December. Ford declined to name the battery supplier at that time.
Don't be fooled. These are mules and the world will find that out in a year or two. Come on Ford, let's get the old rivalry going with GM fired up again. Only this time not with SUVs and Trucks but in the electrification of the super efficient and sexy super car. It might as well be the turn of the 20th century all over again. Can you feel it?
Do you really believe that? Wouldn't Ford be marketing the heck out of these PHEV SUVs? I do not believe Ford has the balls for such progress. I have seen nothing at auto shows to suggest they are adhering to consumer demand. Nothing.
Ford's already admitted that they are two years behind GM, so they may as well take the time to follow the old processes for design and development - that usually begins with a test fleet to see how the batteries and electrical propulsions systems actually perform in real world driving.
Thanks so much! Come to think of it, the middle east would have nothing if only that idea took off from the beginning.
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