Ford Motor Company Presents: Go Further Tour at Zoo Atlanta

Ford Motor Company “Go Further Tour” stopped in Atlanta today, Its one of the 19 national launch markets for the 2012 Focus Electric – Ford’s first zero-emissions, all-electric passenger car.

The Focus Electric and Escape with EcoBoost are part of Ford’s suite of fuel-efficient vehicles, each designed to give consumers the ultimate driving experience, put money back in driver’s pockets with reduced fuel costs and lessen environmental impact through reduced CO2 emissions.

I had the opportunity to drive the newly Ford Focus Electric and I only have one word for my experience AWESOME. During my test drive we started in the parking lot at Zoo Atlanta and toured the Grant Park area, since the car is all electric you can’t tell its on, the car notifies you in the dashboard area that its “ready to drive”

The Dashboard is amazing;

The MyFord Touch emotive instrument cluster provides a unique visual of blue butterflies on the right cluster screen, which represent the surplus range beyond the point of the next charging station. The more butterflies on the screen, the greater the surplus. In selecting this visual, Ford designers were inspired by the concept of the "butterfly effect," in which a small change can have an enormous impact. Before the test drive we had an informative session with City of Atlanta and Clean Cities Atlanta about the importance of having a clean green vehicle the cool thing about having a total electric car is the maintenance, you only have to get your battery checked and your tires rotated ONCE a year. How cool right?? Overall I learned a lot and had a blast driving Ford’s first zero-emissions, all electric car. We also had a chance to enjoy Zoo Atlanta as well! Fun times!