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frominsideevs.com
3 days agoFord's $30,000 EV Pickup Takes A Page From Tesla To Transform How Cars Are Built
On Thursday, CEO Jim Farley gave a brief update on the project's progress on social media. That included a bit more on how exactly the company plans to radically simplify manufacturing and reduce the number of parts needed to build a car. More On Ford's 'Skunkworks' EV Project "Ford will use large unicastings for the first time on the Universal EV Platform," he said. "The radically simplified aluminum unicastings condense over 146 parts into two, and enable the assembly tree method at the Louisville Assembly Plant." Ford has mentioned the use of large castings before. But the specifics of condensing well over 100 parts into two seem to be new.
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frominsideevs.com
3 weeks agoFord CEO Says $30,000 Electric Truck Hits Prototype Stage: 'Like The Apollo Mission'
Ford's Universal EV Platform is progressing toward 2027 commercialization with supply-chain, parts, and plant retrofits underway, prototypes running Ford software, and multiple body variants planned.
fromInsideHook
1 month agoFord Kills Off All-Electric F-150 in Favor of EV With Engine Backup
While Ford did share plans that it was not moving forward with a new electric commercial van to be sold in Europe, the company also stressed its commitment to its Universal EV Platform, and shared that the first vehicle to use that platform would be a midsize truck available for sale in 2027. That's something that could actually achieve what the company has promised for years: an inexpensive electric truck.
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