Details on Ford's future EV to be announced on August 11th!

[Kamuelaflyer]

You do know that your Mustang Mach-E is compatible with those chargers?

There is currently exactly 1 DCFC the Mach-e can actually use on this island. It’s 17 miles from my house and is the one the photo shoot was done at yesterday. The others are very old EFACEC units that won’t charge a mme (among others). Any improvement in DCFC on this rock is very good and positive news.

But you know what won’t charge on any DCFC around here @Jimrpa? And won’t charge on any of the new ones? Our soon to be 20 year old Tacoma. Or our existing Ranger on the mainland. Like I said, need.

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[mkhuffman]

I think it will be a platform, not a specific model. Like GM has their BEV platform used for all their vehicles. If Ford includes a production ready solid-state battery, that could be a Model T moment. I have not heard of any solid-state batteries that are ready for mass production.

IMO the first vehicle on the platform should be a mid-sized or large SUV. That is what people want and will have the best market potential. Rivian sells a lot more R1S vehicles than R1T. Which is not what they expected, I think.

The pickup truck market is huge, but those customers don't seem to be as receptive to electric trucks as SUV buyers are. Not yet, anyway.

Other than a battery breakthrough, I struggle to see what would qualify as a Model T moment. Maybe a massive improvement in manufacturing process efficiency? Still, seems like Tesla has already done that.

 

[Eric_C_Boston]

I wonder if they are going to offer the Bronco EV in North America?

 

[Jimrpa]

all-electric T3 will be an EREV (Series Plug-In Hybrid)

By definition, if it’s any form of “hybrid”, it’s not “all-electric”.

That said, I expect Ford to turn away from EVs and go to an ICE and hybrid lineup in NA.

 

[awp0]

I would be pretty excited about a Ranger Lightning. I'd buy a Rivian if it were cheaper, but the F150 is just too big for my taste. I'm disappointed that Toyota hasn't given us an electric Tacoma.

 

[GreaseMonkey]

I think a Ford Ranger, Chevy Colorado or GMC Canyon would absolutely crush crash here in the US

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[GreaseMonkey]

Oh yeah? Can AI do this!?

love your newfound sense of humor, Brian. @Administrator, you sure the account didn't get hacked during the server upgrade?

 

[TheBaldFox]

I could use a Ranger EV, or something that rides nicer than my MME with a touch more bed room (I have a Traveler on order but we'll see when that actually gets delivered and how painful first year(s) will be with it). I did see a GMC EV Silverado thing at Costco, but the price outweighs the usefulness of a truck for me.

Sounds like you should swap your springs out for Rally springs like other people have been doing on this forum. That's going to be one of the first major upgrades that I do.

 

[Billyk24]

I think it will be a platform, not a specific model. Like GM has their BEV platform used for all their vehicles. If Ford includes a production ready solid-state battery, that could be a Model T moment. I have not heard of any solid-state batteries that are ready for mass production.

IMO the first vehicle on the platform should be a mid-sized or large SUV. That is what people want and will have the best market potential. Rivian sells a lot more R1S vehicles than R1T. Which is not what they expected, I think.

The pickup truck market is huge, but those customers don't seem to be as receptive to electric trucks as SUV buyers are. Not yet, anyway.

Other than a battery breakthrough, I struggle to see what would qualify as a Model T moment. Maybe a massive improvement in manufacturing process efficiency? Still, seems like Tesla has already done that.

IMO the first vehicle on the platform should be a mid-sized or large SUV........but Ford killed the 3 row SUV in 2024 that was to be built in Canada

 

[EB87]

Yeah I saw a recent interview from him where he was saying they’ve been working on more affordable and smaller EVs as well as commercial urban EVs that they’ll be introducing and that they aren’t going to focus on the expensive larger SUV EV space.

 

[Blue highway]

I'm glad to see Ford doing something in the EV space. Worldwide EV adoption continues to grow at around 28% YOY... If Ford and GM don't figure out EVs (which you do by building a bunch of them... e.g. the EGMP platform from Kia/Hyundai and the Chinese and even GM) they will not be competitive anywhere... including in the US.

 

[MacherAWD]

Could Ford be buying a Chinese competitor? Moving production to North America? If we are speculating.

 

[GreaseMonkey]

Could Ford be buying a Chinese competitor? Moving production to North America? If we are speculating.

That makes the Chinese competitor American, defeating the purpose. Ford, along every other western auto company, is getting a shellacking in China. Also, you have no idea how little the Chinese think of us. They convinced themselves that we are on the decline while they are on the rise. They’d never sell to an American company.

 

[Schmedlack]

That makes the Chinese competitor American, defeating the purpose. Ford, along every other western auto company, is getting a shellacking in China. Also, you have no idea how little the Chinese think of us. They convinced themselves that we are on the decline while they are on the rise. They’d never sell to an American company.

Ford may announce a colaboration with a Chinese "Technology Partner". Software and some processing hardware may be "borrowed" from another firm. We all know that the current Mach e architecture using multiple "purpose built" modules is expensive and "clunky". Many of these little boxes may be replaced by a centralized vehicle management system.

 

[SeattleMachE]

Hope we can move beyond announcing a plan to have a plan, and start delivering some real results. Ford, in my opinion, has really lost any momentum it might have had with the initial MME release.

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