
Ford Plans More Electric Cars
DETROIT (
) --
Ford
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said it will build three electric cars at its retooled Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich.
The plant, which once made large SUVs, has undergone a $550 million conversion in order to manufacture the Ford Focus. Ford said three hybrid or electric versions will follow.
"For years, I had this vision of a green Ford Motor Company, but we didn't have the technology before," Ford Executive Chairman Bill Ford told reporters Tuesday, according to
The Detroit Free Press
. "Now we are electrifying mainstream vehicles."
Ford's redesigned Focus will be followed by a battery-powered Focus Electric in 2011 and by two hybrid vehicles in 2012,
The Free Press
reported.
-- Written by Ted Reed in Charlotte, N.C.
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