PSaulet
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Depends on the plant: GM's Hamtramck plant used to have two lines: One for the Volt and one for the Cadillac's it produces.I hate to feed into one more thread degrading into the same cycle of hitting a brick wall, but now I am curious:
Do plants that produce more than 1 vehicle style actually have more than 1 assembly line? Stopping the line to retool every few weeks would be pretty expensive; when I used to write and sell software for small manufacturers they would go out of their way to reduce setup times as much as possible. Is my assumption correct, or is the single line retooled every so often to switch over to a different vehicle?
I think Fusion Energi's were only made in Hermosillo (Mexico) . . . .Depends on the plant: GM's Hamtramck plant used to have two lines: One for the Volt and one for the Cadillac's it produces.
I believe Ford's Kansas City Truck plant also has two lines: F-150's and Escapes. (Been to both of those...)
Some newer "flexible manufacturing" plants can build different cars back to back on the same line.
I think Ford's Flat Rock assembly is like that; building Fusion Energi's and Mustang's on the same line (could be wrong here, however).
It's an interesting topic. I'm curious too. I'll have to see if I can find a video on it.I hate to feed into one more thread degrading into the same cycle of hitting a brick wall, but now I am curious:
Do plants that produce more than 1 vehicle style actually have more than 1 assembly line? Stopping the line to retool every few weeks would be pretty expensive; when I used to write and sell software for small manufacturers they would go out of their way to reduce setup times as much as possible. Is my assumption correct, or is the single line retooled every so often to switch over to a different vehicle?
That was until they stopped building cars for the US: Now "all" the cars are built at Flat Rock from what I understand.I think Fusion Energi's were only made in Hermosillo (Mexico) . . . .
I'm glad I wasn't in the market to buy a car in the 90's. They are all ugly.The only vehicle produced at that plant in recent years was the Fiesta for NA markets (Mexico, U.S., Canada). Hey, that's what I drive! You can see the figures here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Fiesta
With all the extra expenditure that is going on right now, I don't believe anyone in the government will be willing to give electrical car owners / drivers an extra tax break.I wonder if anyone is lobbying NL lawmakers to extend the tax regulations for the same reason (virus delays). All auto manufactures worldwide experienced production delays.
Really?I'm glad I wasn't in the market to buy a car in the 90's. They are all ugly.
Unless you are an Australian in the UK, I wasn't aware that the MME was coming to AUS which is probably why. If you are in UK then yes its official. Preorder customers got an email in MayIs this official information from FORD. I haven't heard anything like this from official Ford representative
I'm still unsure if those are customer units or just demonstration units. They had to have left the Mexico plant prior to OKTB.Ford Authority has a new article about the first batch of the 2021 Mustang Mach-E being delivered to Norway:
https://fordauthority.com/2020/12/first-batch-of-2021-ford-mustang-mach-e-deliveries-land-in-europe/