Ford reveals plan for $700M plant, jobs at Rouge plus all-electric Ford F-150 secrets

[whynot]

An article by those who say they will never buy an EV. I think it looks awesome.

Article by Phoebe Wall Howard Detroit Free Press

Ford Motor Company revealed Thursday an audacious plan to build a $700 million plant at the Rouge complex that would create the first all-electric F-150, the nation's best-selling vehicle.

"This plant mirrors the story of America and American manufacturing," said Bill Ford Jr., executive chairman, during an event at the manufacturing site livestreamed on YouTube and Facebook. "This is where the industrial revolution took hold, where the arsenal of democracy was forged, where parents and grandparents and great-grandparents built not only cars and trucks but their own American dreams.

"Today is about the future and the Rouge has always been the center of innovation," Ford said, noting that construction of a modern manufacturing center had begun right behind the stage on which he was standing.

The new Rouge Electric Vehicle Center will add 300 jobs as part of the project, which will support battery assembly and production of the F-150 PowerBoost hybrid and fully electric F-150.

Ford is just beginning to build its redesigned 2021 F-150 at the Rouge complex and Kansas City Assembly with plans to ship to dealerships starting in November. This latest announcement about the electric version comes despite economic challenges worsened by the pandemic, and keeps a commitment to new jo

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Kumar Galhotra, president, Americas & International Markets Group, talked with reporters before the event and said of the all-electric Ford F-150:

• "It will be the fastest F-150 ever" in terms of 0 to 60 mph.
• "It will be the most powerful."
• "With the battery and the electric motors, it will have most torque of any F-150 we've ever built, and the torque will be instantaneous. ... It totally changes the driving dynamics."
• "It will have a giant frunk ... or a trunk in the front."
• "Bidirectional power transfer, so you can obviously charge it or you can use the power for powering your home or the work site."
• New technology on the electric F-150 will allow mobile power generation so people may use trucks as a power source for camping, too.

Battery use will be transformational, and performance will be enhanced, Galhotra said. The look and feel of the all-electric F-150 will be different but "stay true to the Built Ford Tough DNA," he said.

Ford determined the "work customer" will play a key role, based on research involving current and potential F-150 owners. They want the ability to "seriously power a work site for their tools," Galhotra said. And "when you remove the engine from a vehicle" the size of the F-150, it creates a substantial storage space in the front of the truck to store work equipment.

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[Polyal]

Make it RHD as well you close minded gits.

That is all.

[Bossxr8]

Originally Posted by Polyal

Make it RHD as well you close minded gits.

That is all.

Should make it easier to build it in RHD with no engine to get in the way of the steering shaft.