Yesterday we saw the
junk in the trunk, now here's what's powering it. It's the motor that makes the
Ford Focus Electric go, and while we still don't know many details (we couldn't get anyone to quote us a weight) it is a reasonably compact little thing. We did, however, get confirmation that it will not be run through either a standard transmission, like the dry-clutch automatic that the regular Focus comes with, nor something like the two-speed transmission that
Tesla uses in its
Roadster. It'll be "like a CVT" we're told, keeping the motor at its most efficient RPM, and while we're not sure what
that looks like on the inside we're sure that there'll be no shifting involved, neither manual nor automatic.
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