14 Mar 2022 | Ford to launch seven new electric vehicles in Europe
Episode 1404, Mar 14, 2022, 05:00 PM
On the podcast today:
• Volkswagen and Ford expand collaboration on MEB electric platform
• Ford to launch seven new electric vehicles in Europe by 2024
• Ford Commercial Vehicle Battery Plant To Be Built In Turkey
• New all-electric Abarth 500 coming soon
• Next Alfa Romeo Spider goes electric
• A company aims to snuff out range anxiety by offering 100 miles in 5 minutes
• WSJ: Apple partner Foxconn wants to build chips and car parts in Saudi Arabia
• EV charging companies adding chargers to vacation rentals
• Tesla dominates Germany's February EV registrations — even before Giga Berlin opens
• Bosch & Mitsubishi join battery swapping project in China
• Tesla Model 3 Battery Degradation At 100K Miles, Highway Range Test
• Mercedes-Benz EQS 450+ Charging Analysis: As Fast As Plaid?
Show #1404
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VOLKSWAGEN AND FORD EXPAND COLLABORATION ON MEB ELECTRIC PLATFORM
- Ford Motor Company and the Volkswagen Group are expanding their e-mobility partnership. Ford plans to produce another electric model for the European market based on the MEB platform
- The automaker will also double its planned MEB volume to 1.2 million units over a six-year timeframe.
- The first Ford model to use the MEB will be an all-electric crossover. It is expected to roll off the assembly line at the Ford Electrification Center in Cologne from 2023 and will give a further push to the automaker’s e-mobility strategy. Ford had originally planned just one model based on MEB with a total volume of around 600,000 units. The company has not yet released any details about the second planned model.
- The MEB platform, which can be used by various brands and manufacturers, already provides the technology base for ten electric models from five brands. Used to build approximately 300,000 units in 2021, it is one of the leading electric platforms worldwide.
Original Source : https://www.volkswagenag.com/en/news/2022/03/volkswagen-and-ford-expand-collaboration-on-meb-electric-platfor.html
FORD TO LAUNCH SEVEN NEW ELECTRIC VEHICLES IN EUROPE BY 2024
- Ford will launch seven new electric vehicles in Europe by 2024, with the three-strong range of new cars spearheaded by a new crossover utilising Volkswagen’s MEB platform technology.
- The three new electric cars will come under the new Ford Model E division, set up to separate the firm’s battery-electric business from its combustion-engined one, now called Ford Blue, as part of a structural shake-up instigated by boss Jim Farley earlier this month.
- The first car to be launched is expected to be based on the Volkswagen ID 4 and sit below the Ford Mustang Mach-E in Ford’s line-up. It will be built at Ford’s new state-of-the-art EV manufacturing centre in Cologne, Germany, launching in 2023 and being described officially as a “medium-sized crossover".
- The cars will be joined in Ford’s all-electric line-up by the Ford Puma EV, which will be sold as a stand-alone model from 2024. As a result of reworking Ford’s production capacity to achieve this, the Ford Ecosport will cease production later this year.
- The Transit Custom one-tonne van and Tourneo Custom multi-purpose vehicles will go on sale in 2023, followed in 2024 by a smaller, new Transit Courier and Tourneo Courier multi-purpose vehicle in 2024.
Original Source : https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/ford-launch-seven-new-electric-vehicles-europe-2024
FORD COMMERCIAL VEHICLE BATTERY PLANT TO BE BUILT IN TURKEY
- A newly announced Ford commercial vehicle battery plant figures to play a big role in those plans, too. This new Ford commercial vehicle battery plant will operate under a newly formed joint-venture between Ford, SK On Co., Ltd., and Koc
- the three companies plan to create one of the largest EV battery facilities in the European wider region.
- The new joint venture is planned for Ankara and will manufacture high Nickel NMC cells for assembly into battery array modules. Production is currently expected to start as early as mid-decade with an annual capacity likely to be in the range of 30 to 45 Gigawatt hours. This new battery joint venture will receive support directly from the Turkish Government and will directly benefit large and small commercial vehicle operators across Europe, reducing energy and running costs and providing a significant contribution to CO2 reduction, according to Ford.
Original Source : https://fordauthority.com/2022/03/ford-commercial-vehicle-battery-plant-to-be-built-in-turkey/
NEW ALL-ELECTRIC ABARTH 500 COMING SOON
- Abarth is set to launch its first all-electric car, a rapid hot hatch based on Fiat’s electric 500. Promising to deliver more power, sharper handling and more extroverted looks, it will also mark the first step in the brand’s transition to an all-electric range of cars when it hits showrooms, possibly as soon as next year.
- Speaking to Auto Express, Fiat CEO Olivier François said, ‘The looks are the same. We need to be a little bit more extrovert. Abarth is always a little bit over the top, with spoilers and wheels.’
- In the standard car the mid-level and range topping versions get a 42kWh battery producing 116bhp, allowing for a 0-62mph time of 9 seconds and a 93mph top speed. Abarth’s electric 500 will need a significant boost in power to match another upcoming retro hot hatch - the 215bhp Renault 5-based Alpine R5.
Original Source : https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/abarth/500/357558/new-all-electric-abarth-500-due-soon?amp
NEXT ALFA ROMEO SPIDER GOES ELECTRIC
- Alfa Romeo is planning to crown a revitalised range with a new Spider sports car - ending a decade-long interregnum with no mainstream roadster in the range.
- The Stellantis group has ‘locked and funded’ a new model programme, in a bid to transform Alfa Romeo from everyone’s theoretical dream car into a fast-growing stable of irresistible premium products.
- Likely be spun off the STLA (pronounced Stella) Medium platform, due to come on stream in 2023. That offers up to 104kWh of battery capacity, and electric motors punching out up to 241bhp. But how many e-motors would the Spider deploy, and where would they be mounted?
- ‘The question of rear-drive or all-wheel drive is on the table at the moment,’ Alfa CEO Jean-Philippe Imparato tells CAR in an exclusive interview. ‘Why not rear-wheel drive – if I have the performance! Obviously I love rear-wheel drive, but if I lose Alfa power or torque because I’m only rear-wheel drive then I prefer to be all-wheel drive.’
- But head of design Mesonero-Romanos will insist on strong proportions, including a long bonnet emulating history’s great combustion-engined GTs.
- Even the industry has axed many convertibles and coupes as sales have plummeted, it won’t be easy. ‘Today, there’s not a single electric cabrio: it is hard,’ admits the head of design. ‘But we need to make people fall in love with cars again.’
And the Spaniard believes that as electrification eliminates tail-pipe emissions, public opinion might again favour cars that some currently consider unforgivably indulgent.
Original Source : https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/spy-shots/alfa-romeo/spider/
A COMPANY AIMS TO SNUFF OUT RANGE ANXIETY BY OFFERING 100 MILES IN 5 MINUTES
- With its “100inX” technology roadmap, the company aims to achieve a mileage of 100 miles per five minutes of charging by 2024
- The company is at the advanced stages of developing groundbreaking semi-solid state technologies and targets mass manufacturing of its fast-charging battery cells, 100in5, which offer 100 miles of travel in five minutes of charging in 2024, then improve its charging abilities by 40 percent to three minutes by 2028 with 100in3, and finally achieving complete charging in two minutes by improving an additional 33 percent by 2032 with 100in2 batteries.
- ‘100in5’ cells of StoreDot’s XFC technology are already being tested in the real world by a number of original automotive equipment manufacturers.
- proven battery chemistry can now be applied to any cell format, including both pouch and the 4680 family form factors, which are the formats increasingly favored by the majority of global car manufacturers.
- XFC is a silicon-dominated anode that can accept lithium-ions much faster than a graphite anode can, thanks to silicon’s lower resistance, but it also controls the tendency of silicon to swell when it accepts those ions that would otherwise generate damaging mechanical forces inside the battery.
- The company became the first one to reveal fast-charging 4680 cylindrical cells that can be fully charged in 10 minutes last year, and produce silicon-dominant extreme fast charge (XFC) cells for electric vehicles on a mass production line.
Original Source : https://interestingengineering.com/storedot-100-miles-in-5-minutes
WSJ: APPLE PARTNER FOXCONN WANTS TO BUILD CHIPS AND CAR PARTS IN SAUDI ARABIA
- Foxconn is reportedly in talks about opening a new $9 billion multipurpose facility in Saudi Arabia. The new factory would be able to make "microchips, electric-vehicle components, and other electronics."
- The company is also sounding out the United Arab Emirates about the same project, potentially as a way to put pressure on Saudi Arabia as it works to get tax breaks and more.
- Foxconn's links to Apple will no doubt make it an interested party here, especially given the fact that the plant will be able to produce parts for electric vehicles. The Apple Car project is one that continues to trundle along — could this Saudi Arabian project be part of that one day?
Original Source : https://www.imore.com/wsj-apple-partner-foxconn-wants-build-chips-and-car-parts-saudi-arabia
EV CHARGING COMPANIES ADDING CHARGERS TO VACATION RENTALS
Original Source : https://www.autoblog.com/2022/03/16/ev-chargers-vacation-rentals/
TESLA DOMINATES GERMANY'S FEBRUARY EV REGISTRATIONS — EVEN BEFORE GIGA BERLIN OPENS
BOSCH & MITSUBISHI JOIN BATTERY SWAPPING PROJECT IN CHINA
Original Source : https://www.electrive.com/2022/03/14/bosch-mitsubishi-join-battery-swapping-project-in-china/
TESLA MODEL 3 BATTERY DEGRADATION AT 100K MILES, HIGHWAY RANGE TEST
Original Source : https://insideevs.com/reviews/573397/tesla-model-3-100k-battery-degradation-range-test/
MERCEDES-BENZ EQS 450+ CHARGING ANALYSIS: AS FAST AS PLAID?
Original Source : https://insideevs.com/news/573179/mercedes-eqs-450-charging-analysis
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