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Thanks. It sounds like the B Class Electric Drive won't be a good fit for us. I'll still test drive one when I'm in Cali for work in a few weeks to see what it's like. Thank you both!

We currently have a Focus Electric & Fusion Energi. Our lease on the Focus Electric is up in about 12 months so we're starting to examine our options for when we turn the Focus in. We've really enjoyed our time with the Focus, but it is a little small. We have 4-5 people in our car at least...

We live in an apartment where we pay a flat price per month for our electric use for our BEV & PHEV. I track our electricity consumption monthly with the trip meter on each car to make sure we aren't using more electricity than we are paying for. I have always taken my total kWh reported by the...

In reality are owners seeing the higher energy consumption that the lower EPA rating would indicate? In our Focus Electric we average just over 200 Wh/mi (just under 5 mi/kW) in city driving. Would the BCED be much worse? We're considering it as a possible replacement for the Focus when its...