COVERING ALL BASES: Ford will make gasoline, hybrid, pluggable hybrid, and pure electric versions of the Focus.

In a related note, I heard from the Nissan Leaf folks yesterday. They called to say that I would be able to test-drive one in Knoxville in February, and that there was a website where I could sign up . . . but that it wouldn’t be active until next month. The guy who called was nice enough (and denied that the call had anything to do with my blog posts — I just came up on his list, apparently) but the whole Leaf rollout still seems to me to be kind of badly managed.