First Drive: 2012 Ford Focus Electric

Ford chose an auspicious moment to dazzle the world with the engineering talent and savvy product planning behind the 2012 Focus Electric. Bad news about electric cars had been cascading in the days before the car's press launch in Southern California. Production of the Chevrolet Volt remained suspended, the recall of one leading battery maker's products threatened that company's very existence, and an exploding lithium-ion battery injured two workers at the GM Tech Center.