Ford Joins GM and Volkswagen's Electric Race, Planning to Develop Fully Electric Trucks and Cars by 2025

Ford Joins GM and Volkswagen’s Electric Race, Planning to Develop Fully Electric Trucks and Cars by 2025

Written by Valdemar Medeiros

Published on 26/05/2021 at 12:54

Transição da Ford para carros elétricos -Fonte: Insidevs ru

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Joining Forces With Volkswagen, GM And Tesla In Investments In The Electric Car Market, Ford Promises To Invest 22 Billion Dollars In 12 Electric Cars By 2025

Ford will announce, this Wednesday (26), the development of two electric car platforms, joining the strategy of GM (General Motors), Tesla, and Volkswagen. The electric car platforms are part of an ambitious plan alongside Ford and this plan will be presented at an online event.

Ford’s New Plan Is To Join The Electric Car Market And Compete With GM, Volkswagen, And Tesla

The electric car platforms will provide automakers with simple architectures, such as shared chassis, batteries, and electric motors. From this base, various electric cars will be produced in the future, allowing Ford to simplify and reduce expenses from manufacturing to logistics.

During the event, the company is expected to elaborate on its battery strategy with greater durability, including a battery joint venture that was recently announced with South Korea’s SK Innovation.

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Ford’s Future Clientele And Competitor Investments: Volkswagen And GM

Despite all this investment, it remains unpredictable for Jim Farley, Ford’s CEO, whether and how many customers will adopt electric cars, even if they match those of rivals Volkswagen and GM in operating costs, prices, and performance.

The automaker’s rivals are racing ahead, with Volkswagen, GM, and Tesla investing billions of dollars in the sector to convert their vehicles to electric in the same markets as Ford, but with aggressive timelines. Volkswagen launched the ID3, the first of its new electrics last year, and GM will begin assembling the new Hummer EV pickup in the US as early as 2021.

Ford’s Investments In The Electric Sector

Diving deep into the world of electric cars, Ford launched an electric Mustang, known as Mach-E, which arrived at the beginning of this year. The electric version had been in development since 2017 by the Team Edison.

In March, Mustang sales were up, hitting 3,739 units sold, reaching 270 hp and 43.8 kgfm of torque and its variant with 464 hp and 84.6 kgfm of torque.

Ford Joins GM and Volkswagen’s Electric Race, Planning to Develop Fully Electric Trucks and Cars by 2025

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Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt has ceased to be a climatic phenomenon and has become a biological system that feeds on itself, with 8,000 kilometers in length, 37 million tons of algae, and scientists confirm that it is now permanent.

China is building an artificial island in the middle of the sea, covering 20 km², to construct the largest offshore airport in the world, the Dalian Jinzhouwan. This $4.3 billion project is anchored on more than 3,000 pillars embedded in the rock beneath the ocean and is scheduled to open in 2035.

A robot named Walter does the work of five bricklayers per hour and can save the construction industry, where the average age of professionals is 46 years and almost no one wants to learn the trade anymore, in the United Kingdom.

Engineers had to pour concrete mixed with tons of ice throughout entire nights in the Dubai desert to erect the Burj Khalifa; any carelessness could clog the pipes half a mile high.

The James Webb telescope spotted a planet 700 light-years from Earth with mornings full of sand clouds and nights with clear skies, the temperature difference between the two hemispheres reaches an impressive 170 degrees.

The race of humanoid robots in factories has truly begun, Hyundai announced that it will deploy more than 25,000 units of Atlas in its production lines starting in 2028, in a partnership that involves Boston Dynamics and training with Google DeepMind.

After nearly three decades and more than 1 million cars produced, Toyota will close the historic Indaiatuba plant on June 30 and concentrate Corolla production in Sorocaba, as part of an R$ 11 billion plan that heavily invests in flex hybrids and even an unprecedented pickup.

The number of Brazilian meatpacking plants with suspended meat sales to China rises to five, after the Chinese blocked the JBS unit in Vilhena due to the presence of hormones in the shipments, adding extra pressure on the sector on the eve of the 2026 export quota being exhausted.

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Ford Joins GM and Volkswagen’s Electric Race, Planning to Develop Fully Electric Trucks and Cars by 2025

Joining Forces With Volkswagen, GM And Tesla In Investments In The Electric Car Market, Ford Promises To Invest 22 Billion Dollars In 12 Electric Cars By 2025

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A giant printer called the “Ferrari” of concrete has landed in Latin America and can already build a 120-square-meter house in just 48 hours, making the traditional construction site look like something from the last century.

A British company has installed in the middle of the ocean the world’s first floating platform that generates electricity 24 hours a day from the temperature difference between the surface and the depths of the Atlantic, without relying on wind or sun.

Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt has ceased to be a climatic phenomenon and has become a biological system that feeds on itself, with 8,000 kilometers in length, 37 million tons of algae, and scientists confirm that it is now permanent.

China is building an artificial island in the middle of the sea, covering 20 km², to construct the largest offshore airport in the world, the Dalian Jinzhouwan. This $4.3 billion project is anchored on more than 3,000 pillars embedded in the rock beneath the ocean and is scheduled to open in 2035.

A robot named Walter does the work of five bricklayers per hour and can save the construction industry, where the average age of professionals is 46 years and almost no one wants to learn the trade anymore, in the United Kingdom.

Engineers had to pour concrete mixed with tons of ice throughout entire nights in the Dubai desert to erect the Burj Khalifa; any carelessness could clog the pipes half a mile high.

The James Webb telescope spotted a planet 700 light-years from Earth with mornings full of sand clouds and nights with clear skies, the temperature difference between the two hemispheres reaches an impressive 170 degrees.

How GMC decided to create a cheaper “mini Hummer” after the failure of giant electric vehicles and revealed radical SUVs that promise to take on the Bronco and Wrangler with a brutal look, futuristic technology, and off-road capability in the USA.

Chile inaugurates the first electric highway for the trucks that drive its economy, installs high-power chargers over 400 km, and aims to reduce diesel dependency in a logistical shift to Puerto Montt by 2030.

New Brazilian Fiat Fastback with a hybrid flex engine of up to 180 hp and a range of over 1,000 km will give rise to the new “affordable” Chrysler SUV in the US, in a project aiming to increase the brand’s sales to 225,000 cars by 2030.

The race of humanoid robots in factories has truly begun, Hyundai announced that it will deploy more than 25,000 units of Atlas in its production lines starting in 2028, in a partnership that involves Boston Dynamics and training with Google DeepMind.

After nearly three decades and more than 1 million cars produced, Toyota will close the historic Indaiatuba plant on June 30 and concentrate Corolla production in Sorocaba, as part of an R$ 11 billion plan that heavily invests in flex hybrids and even an unprecedented pickup.

The number of Brazilian meatpacking plants with suspended meat sales to China rises to five, after the Chinese blocked the JBS unit in Vilhena due to the presence of hormones in the shipments, adding extra pressure on the sector on the eve of the 2026 export quota being exhausted.

How much does it cost to live with dignity in Brazil? A study found that in all 79 regions analyzed, the necessary salary was above the minimum of R$ 1,621. In São Paulo, a family of four needs R$ 6,155 per month.