Lawrence is right, several listed on evalbum.com are the FMC production Ranger EVs
https://www.google.com/search?q="evalbum.com"+Ford+Ranger Ford Ranger EVs https://www.google.com/search?site=evalbum.com&q=ford+electric+ranger EV-history: I was at the SoCal (aqmd.gov) air quality management district's office when they were holding the 2nd EV workshop (the one for NorCal in Sacramento-CA had already been completed, and months later, this one was being held for S.CA in Diamond Bar). It began well enough, but when it was GM's turn to speak at the podium (lights, camera, action) the red-faced, &sweaty (like he had been drinking all night) GM Mgr, said they were not going to make EVs any longer. When stopped from leaving, cornered by the board, the Mgr said, 'well then we'll just sell golf-carts'. They (the automakers' lawyers) had found a loophole. GM proceeded to basically give-away nEVs and chargers to educational institutions for EV credits. GM also ended their EV1 leasing program, and all EV1's returned on lease were crushed and mechanically chewed up into bits. Honda did the same for their wonderful EV-plus (EV+), with a few first repurposed into HMC's fcv R&D program, then later crushed and also torn into bits. Ford was thinking of doing the same, when a couple of EVangels chained themselves to a pole at a Sacramento Ford dealership, to bring -pr- attention to what automakers were doing (they had lied about making EVs available for the public to get). FMC decided to offer their production Ranger EVs for-sale to people who were previous lessees. So, those production Ranger EVs Lawrence was speaking of, are from those sales. Toyota did a bait and switch at that time. TMC put their RAV4-EV up for sale, and within a couple of days, ended those sales. But the EV1-Club members were right on top of it, and grabbed/nabbed many RAV4-EVs before TMC could stop the sales. Oddly, while there were soon no production EVs to be had by the public, the former generation EVSE (Avcon, spi) were still being installed. Which was a truly ridiculous waste for (CA-DMV fee/tax) dollars. A right minded host wanting to promote EVs had to install both a conductive Avcon, and an inductive spi, even though no EVs were being produced. GM's spi became the same as the way a cuckoo bird lays its egg in another bird nest. The cuckoo chick kicks out the other bird's chick, etc. GM was practically giving away its expensive spi EVSE. This not only wasted a parking spot (lots of ice-complaints), because it went unused, those spots became iced, which hurt the EV-cause (public thought EVs were a failure when they weren't). Sidebar: while some feel the next gen EVSE j1772 is not all that great, at least it was a simple matter to yank all the unused Avcon & spi EVSE, as j1772 EVSE use the exact same power (L2= 240-208 @40Amps). Money was also saved because the wiring, conduit digging, and signage had already been done. For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/archive/ {brucedp.neocities.org} -- Sent from: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/ _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
