Back in August 2011, David Finnegan, Ford‘s electrified vehicles marketing manager, said:
“For the first few months of production, we will be concentrating on California and New York. Our dealers in those areas will be the first to have their retail orders scheduled and receive the Focus Electric. We will be rolling out to the remainder of our initial markets starting in Spring 2012.”
Last week, Wesley Sherwood, Ford Motors said:
“We are still on track to ramp up Focus Electric retail production and availability in the first half of this year followed by 16 additional markets later this year. We are not providing specific sales projections but continue to believe all-electric vehicles will be a small portion of the electrified vehicle mix for some time. Our initial orders are in line with this projection.”
Mike Tinskey, the Ford Global Electric Vehicle Infrastructure associate director told MLive that 2012 Ford Focus Electric won’t be available outside of California, New York and New Jersey until the fourth quarter of 2012. He also said that the electric hatchback should start becoming available in 19 major markets around September.
Those 19 major markets include Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando, Phoenix, Portland, Raleigh Durham, Richmond, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Tucson and Washington, D.C.
And that leaves us to draw a sad conclusion: For most customers, the wait for a new 2012 Ford Focus Electric will be a little longer than they’d initially hoped.
