Between 2023 and 2024, Ford will launch seven new electric vehicles in Europe, including a “zero tailpipe” version of the Puma. Two new SUVs, two utility vehicles and the “touring” versions of these are also on the program.
Ford plans to market only 100% electric vehicles from 2030 in Europe. The manufacturer also intends to offer an electric or rechargeable hybrid variant of each of its models from 2026 on the Old Continent. These strategic announcements, made a year ago now, still had to be followed by details concerning the brand’s models that would go electric by then. The builder at the blue oval presents a first product calendar, which runs until 2024 and has seven new battery-powered models.
Two new SUVs and two electric utility vehicles
In 2023, Ford will launch the production of a first electric vehicle based on the Volkswagen group’s MEB modular architecture at its German plant in Cologne, as part of a collaboration between the two manufacturers. It will be a mid-size SUV. In 2024, a “sports crossover” will go into production in Cologne. Behind this designation could hide an SUV with a coupé profile, and it should be the second Ford with an MEB platform. The names of these new models remain to be known. Note that the partnership between Ford and Volkswagen also covers utilities; thus the future Volkswagen Amarok will be a close technical “cousin” of the new Ford Ranger, announced for the end of 2022.
Still utility vehicles, the new Transit Custom and Transit Courier will be offered in 100% electric versions from 2023 and 2024 respectively. Their “touring” variants Tourneo Custom and Tourneo Courier will be entitled to the same treatment.
An electric Ford Puma announced
It is also in 2024 that Ford will launch an electric Puma, an arrival which should coincide with the restyling of the compact SUV. The latter, already offered in micro-hybrid, Flexifuel (bi-fuel unleaded/bioethanol) and 100% petrol (ST only), was the best-selling Ford model in Europe in 2021. It will thus benefit from an even more large. Like the others, this electric variant will be produced in Craiova, Romania.
To develop the industrialization of electric models on this site, some of its activities must be transferred to the Ford Otosan plant in Turkey. It is also there that Ford plans to set up a battery factory. via a joint venture with the South Korean manufacturer SK On Co. If this project is validated, activities will begin in 2027 with an annual production target of between 30 and 45 GWh.
