Ford Motor Co. is starting from January 2010 a 24-month electric vehicle test program in Germany, Bloomberg recently reported.
The vehicles involved will be 25 electric Focus compacts and Transit Vans. These will be driven under real traffic conditions in the town of Colone, the location of Ford’s European division, said Ferdinand Dudenhoeffer, director of the Center for Automotive Research at Germany’s University of Duisburg-Essen, which is supervising the 15 million-euro study…. (read more)