Ford reported an $800 million impression from the Trump administration’s tariffs within the second quarter, per its earnings deck launched on Wednesday. However the greatest information from the report is that it’s going to reveal extra about its future electrical car plans subsequent month.
“August 11 might be an enormous day for all of us at Ford,” CEO Jim Farley mentioned on Wednesday throughout the automaker’s second-quarter earnings name. “We might be in Kentucky to share extra about our plans to design and construct a breakthrough electrical car and a platform within the U.S.”
“It is a Mannequin T second for us at Ford,” Farley mentioned, referring to Ford’s pioneering car of the early 1900s. It was one of many earliest mass-produced, reasonably priced vehicles and put America on wheels.
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The automaker disclosed final 12 months that it had been engaged on a secretive “skunkworks” venture to carry low-cost EVs to the plenty. On the time, studies instructed that the brand new electrical platform would underpin a number of EVs, together with a compact SUV, a small pickup truck and probably a car for supply providers.
As EV gross sales have been uneven within the U.S. this 12 months because of the rollback of the tax credit on Sept. 30 and the nullification of the gasoline economic system guidelines, Ford has shifted its focus in direction of hybrids and its core profit-making gasoline SUV and truck enterprise. Final 12 months, it modified up its electrification roadmap and canceled a three-row electrical SUV it had been planning.
Nonetheless, Ford is not utterly giving up on EVs, holding at the very least one foot within the enterprise. The August 11 reveal might be “an opportunity to carry a brand new household of automobiles to the world that provide unbelievable know-how effectivity, area and options,” Farley mentioned.
Ford’s EV efforts have struggled recently. It solely has three EVs in its portfolio: the Mustang Mach-E, F-150 Lightning and the E-trans van. On the identical time, Basic Motors has scaled up its EV lineup to just about a dozen fashions, with Chevrolet now changing into America’s second-best-selling EV model this 12 months, solely behind Tesla.
In fact, there’s additionally the competitors the automaker is going through in abroad markets from burgeoning Chinese language rivals.
Now, Ford will make its next-generation EVs within the U.S., and at the very least a few of them might be powered by low-cost lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries. Its $3 billion LFP battery plant, known as the BlueOval Battery Park Michiganwill begin producing America’s first automotive-grade LFP cells subsequent 12 months.
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