An investment of £380 million will see the Liverpool plant ramp up EV production to 420,000 units a year
Ford has announced it will be investing heavily in its Halewood factory, creating Ford’s first European electric car component production facility. The transition from manufacturing internal combustion engine transmissions to electric power units will create 500 new jobs in the area.
Ford says the Halewood plant is integral to its European electrification plan, which will follow the EU’s target of manufacturers building only zero-emission vehicles by 2035.
Halewood’s annual production figure of electric powertrains was expected to be around 250,000 units a year, but with investment rising from an initial £230m to £380m, Ford claims 420,000 units per year should be feasible by 2024.
This means that 70 per cent of the 600,000 EVs Ford intends to sell in Europe per year by 2026 will be powered by Halewood-produced technology. Globally, the American giant also plans on selling two million EVs by 2026.
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Tim Slatter, chairman of Ford UK, spoke on the transition of the Halewood plant: “This is an all-important next step for Ford towards having nine EVs on sale within two years. Our UK workforce is playing a major role in Ford’s all-electric future.”
Read more: AutoExpress
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