DETROIT — Ford Motor on Thursday outlined plans to make use of a Canadian plant it had earmarked for a future electrical automobile to as an alternative construct bigger, gasoline-powered variations of its flagship F-Sequence pickup truck.
Ford in April had already delayed the launch of the deliberate three-row electrical SUVs at its Oakville Meeting facility from 2025 to 2027, citing slower than anticipated progress in EV demand. It mentioned on Thursday it remained dedicated to these EVs and that timeline however didn’t say the place they’d now be constructed.
The Dearborn, Michigan-based automaker plans so as to add capability for 100,000 F-Sequence Tremendous Obligation vans on the facility, together with the flexibility to make use of what the corporate known as “future multi-energy expertise.”
“Tremendous Obligation is a crucial software for companies and folks all over the world and, even with our Kentucky Truck Plant and Ohio Meeting Plant working flat out, we are able to’t meet the demand,” Ford CEO Jim Farley mentioned in a press release. “On the similar time, we sit up for introducing three-row electrical utility autos.”
Ford has more and more leaned into manufacturing of hybrid autos to win over shoppers who aren’t able to go absolutely electrical. The automaker goals to quadruple hybrid manufacturing over the subsequent few years.
These profitable F-Sequence heavy-duty vans, that are particularly standard for the automaker’s industrial enterprise, are additionally produced at meeting crops in Kentucky and Ohio.
The corporate plans to speculate about $3 billion to increase Tremendous Obligation manufacturing, together with $2.3 billion to put in meeting and built-in stamping operations on the Oakville Meeting Complicated.