Ford's Europe car lineup to be all-electric by 2030

By Nick Carey

 

FILE PHOTO: The Ford logo is pictured at the 2019 Frankfurt Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt, Germany September 10, 2019. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay/File Photo

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co on Wednesday said its car lineup in Europe will be all-electric by 2030 as the U.S. automaker races to get ahead of CO2 emissions targets and looming bans in some countries on fossil fuel vehicles.

 

The carmaker said it will invest $1 billion over the next 30 months to convert its vehicle assembly plant in Cologne, Germany, to become the U.S. automaker's first electric vehicle facility in Europe.

 

"This reinforces our commitment to the European region," Stuart Rowley, head of Ford's European operations, said during a news conference.

 

Ford said its first European-built, all-electric passenger vehicle will be produced at the facility from 2023 and is considering building a second model there.

 

The carmaker has a strategic alliance with Volkswagen AG, under which Ford will use its German partner's MEB electric vehicle platform to build some models. Rowley said the model out of Cologne will be the first to use Volskwagen's MEB platform.

 

The No.2 U.S. automaker said that by 2026 it will have electric versions of all its passenger cars on sale in Europe and that by 2030 two=thirds of its commercial vehicle sales in Europe will be fully electric or plug-in hybrids.

 

The company said it will have plug-in hybrid or fully-electric versions of its entire commercial vehicle range available by 2024.

 

Ford currently dominates the U.S. and European markets for gasoline-powered commercial vehicles with shares of 40% and almost 15%, respectively.

 

The carmaker said its commercial vehicle business is "key to future growth and profitability."

 

Ford said this month it was "doubling down" on connected electric vehicles and said it will invest $22 billion in electrification through 2025, nearly twice what it had previously committed to EVs.

 

This week Jaguar Land Rover, owned by India's Tata Motors, said its luxury Jaguar brand would be entirely electric by 2025 and the carmaker will launch e-models of its entire lineup by 2030.

 

Last month, Ford's Detroit rival General Motors Co said it aims to an entirely zero-emission lineup by 2035.

 

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Jaguar as well.

So sad so glad I lived when I lived in a world of petrol heads. 

How on earth does the petrol head's favorite quip of, "There's no replacement for displacement" translate in a NiMH world?

19 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

So sad so glad I lived when I lived in a world of petrol heads. 

I don't really get this mindset. You can still own a polluting climate destroying vehicle as far as I am aware, it is just the World realizes it is selfish to continue with production of them to save us from ourselves (or should I say younger generations who now have to live with all the CO2 of their budget which we used for ourselves). It is not as if dynamically the electric vehicles of the future will have any downsides to the ICE ones of today. I am sure they will be able to pretend to be clunky, noisy, vibrate and low on power for the older generation who miss those 'characteristics'. It's called progress...

52 minutes ago, tyga said:

I don't really get this mindset. You can still own a polluting climate destroying vehicle as far as I am aware

 it is just the World realizes it is selfish to continue with production

 It's called progress...

Don't get your mind set, can I not have an opinion, what wrong with someone who likes petrol engines

You can probably own the machine  but I doubt if people will be able to use it. 

Agree good for the future just glad I won't be part of it. 

Progress of petrol engines has been great you only need a battery to start it. 

And where - pray tell - is all this electricity coming from ?

Germanys coal burning plants ?

Green people need to get their collective heads out and realize that all you are doing is an exchange - you are not 'saving' a ------- thing

9 minutes ago, canthai55 said:

And where - pray tell - is all this electricity coming from ?

Germanys coal burning plants ?

Green people need to get their collective heads out and realize that all you are doing is an exchange - you are not 'saving' a ------- thing

Absolutely!  There is a documentary by Michael Moore - Planet of the Humans - that explains this rather well.

Now, you can love or hate MM but sometimes he does make a lot of sense.

It seems to me that a Country such as Thailand is already struggling to maintain adequate electricity supplies, judging by the number of brownouts and disconnections that we get.  I can't see that wind or solar is the answer so yes, where exactly is the extra power for electric vehicles going to come from?

4 hours ago, NanLaew said:

How on earth does the petrol head's favorite quip of, "There's no replacement for displacement" translate in a NiMH world?

 

A dud NiMH replacement...displacing £5000 every few years.