Hi Jay,  Love your new show.  Cool idea for EV racing!  I hope to see it.  Here's an idea...seeing who can navigate a windy course on a personal EV like the Zuumer (www.Zuumer.com). 

I certainly hope to see EVs become widely available at equal or better pricing compared to gas cars of similar size, perfomance. and range.

Glad to see Jay is giving exposure to electric vehicles. It however does appear that there is some factor motivating his concentration of this event upon one brand one vehicle.  Focus on the Focus. A true interest in promotion of electric vehicles would have utilized/included any of the number of  the other plug-in electrics scheduled to be released to the US market in the same time frame.

This is a controlled environment and as such even the least funded US based EV program would likely have felt safe and gotten some test units for Mr Leno to use for the exposure it would garnered. Not to mention the non US units expected to be in market eg. to name but one the Nissan Leaf. Other than that its great PR for Magna's EV group & Ford and shows what can be done with a marketing budget in hand.

Hey Jay ,Your Show is the Best. I sure enjoy the race track . Now if Ford will make us a Cheap Electric car I will buy it. Keep up the Great work a devoted Fan.

Great new show Jay!  Great new car Ford!  Be sure and make us a good PHEV too for the longer trips.

Geat video, please rember to tell the audience that in addition to no gas, there is no spark plugs to clean or replace, no rotors or distributor, no ignition coils, no air filters to replace, no gas filters or oil filters to change, no oil to change, no exhust system to replace, no timming belts to replace , no valves to adjust, no coolant, no radiators to replace, no water hoses to replace, no water pump to fail, and a host of temp and exhust sensors that do not need replacing because they are not there.

In short this might just be the most reliable car you will ever buy!

-Daniel

Electric cars,reasonably priced,are the future for short.city commutes ! Certainly challenges for use in areas - Eg. Phoenix,Az. where AC utilization is high and therefore much juice is necessary. My province in Canada borders on North Dakota so one can understand a battery warmer,blanket/belt needs juice but mostly overnite using home electricity. I have been waiting for our Government here to allow electric cars;no passage of that Gov. bill yet while our good neigbors to the south enjoy  city cars of the future...

Leno did a video on the Aptera.  Was the best vehicle selected or the one that could afford to pay for the promotion?

"in addition to no gas, there is no spark plugs to clean or replace, no rotors or distributor, no ignition coils, no air filters to replace, no gas filters or oil filters to change, no oil to change, no exhust system to replace, no timming belts to replace , no valves to adjust, no coolant, no radiators to replace, no water hoses to replace, no water pump to fail, and a host of temp and exhust sensors that do not need replacing because they are not there".

You got that right, thats what everyone is quitely worried about really.

CAD design the chassis, buy in an electric drive train module, buy two electric motors and a transmission and a cooling system, get a good project manager and a named well known designer and a few million $ and away you go. Mr.Musk shows how quick it is to do these days and that 3 years or so he took to get a new supercar on the road included inventing the technology! Now that is more readily available, one off electric projects are very feasible, especially as the after-sale requirements will be so minimal.... Order it online, have it built to order in an automated plant, ship it out to wherever. Who needs to employ anyone really?!

Short of a sexy team making latte's in a token highstreet boutique shops, and a web marketing team, it makes you wonder what a lot of the after-sales service industry people as per above will be doing in a few years time...retraining I suppose.

I hope Mr. Leno will be demoing many EV cars on the new track. It would be rude not to really so i am sure he will be inviting all manner of vehicles in to have a run....An Eco-Topgear of sorts then haha - in America! Who would have thought it!!