But when I needed to punch it up to zip around a lumbering tractor-trailer on the freeway, the Focus Electric takes off like a rocket.

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The largest investor in the company is noneother than Elon Musk, the CEO of both publicly held electric car maker Tesla Motors and still privately held rocket company SpaceX.

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