{"id":309093,"date":"2010-02-11T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T01:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green.yahoo.com\/blog\/ecogeek\/1292\/ford-unveils-all-electric-truck-for-late-2010.html"},"modified":"2010-02-11T20:48:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T01:48:00","slug":"ford-unveils-all-electric-truck-for-late-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/309093","title":{"rendered":"Ford unveils all-electric truck for late 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Etransitconnect\" height=\"183\" src=\"http:\/\/l.yimg.com\/a\/feeds\/us\/grn\/green_ecogeek\/etransitconnect.jpg\" width=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ford Motor Company has taken another step forward in adding electric vehicles to their fleet by announcing an <a href=\"http:\/\/media.ford.com\/mini_sites\/10031\/2011TransitConnect\/\">all-electric version of their Transit Connect van<\/a>.  The conventional version of the Transit Connect was named Truck of the Year at the Detroit Auto Show earlier this year.  A small number of electric Transit Connect trucks will be available later this year, with subsequent production levels to be based on demand.<\/p>\n<p>The truck is an all-electric vehicle, and is targeted at commercial uses such as route driving with fairly regular, predictable driving.  However, Ford has <a href=\"http:\/\/gm-volt.com\/2010\/02\/09\/ford-unveils-transit-connect-electric-cargo-van-will-enter-production-this-year\/\">also said<\/a> that they &#8220;would not exclude retail sales&#8221; for the van.<\/p>\n<p>The electric Transit Connect has an expected range of 80 miles from a 28 kWh lithium ion battery pack.  It is designed to recharge at a 240 volt charging station over a period of 6-8 hours.  Charging from a 120 volt supply is also possible.<\/p>\n<p>via: Ford press release<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/l.yimg.com\/a\/feeds\/us\/grn\/green_ecogeek\/uxxrkemqxgc\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ford Motor Company has taken another step forward in adding electric vehicles to their fleet by announcing an all-electric version of their Transit Connect van. The conventional version of the Transit Connect was named Truck of the Year at the Detroit Auto Show earlier this year. A small number of electric Transit Connect trucks will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3949,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}