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Ford’s Answer to China: A Completely New Way of Making Cars
The American automaker is spending billions on a radical reinvention of EV manufacturing, aimed squarely at taking on Chinese competition and Tesla.
The scalable, modular system can be adapted to make a variety of EV shapes and sizes from B-segment cars to vans and three-row SUVs. The first vehicle from the Ford Universal EV Platform will come in 2027, a midsize four-door electric pickup with an impressively low targeted starting price of $30,000. Farley thinks that Ford's new way of making EVs is the perfect weapon to take on the Chinese automakers, the ideal example of precisely how the West needs to compete.
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