FRANKFURT: Ford could build more than one model of electric car based on Volkswagen’s electric vehicle platform, Ford’s Europe chief Stuart Rowley told German daily Handelsblatt.
To make only one model made no sense financially, and a decision about whether to build a second model could happen soon, Rowley is quoted telling Handelsblatt.
“Yes, we are in talks about this,” Rowley told the paper.
Volkswagen had announced in March that it was opening its Modular Electric Toolkit (MEB) developed in recent years to other manufacturers. The goal is to achieve a significant reduction in the cost of e-mobility through the widest possible deployment of the MEB and the associated economies of scale, thus enabling broad access to individual mobility to continue in future.
Volkswagen is projecting a first wave of some 15 million pure electric vehicles based on the MEB. e.GO Mobile AG based in Aachen, Germany, was the world’s first external partner to use the electric platform to launch further electric vehicles in addition to Volkswagen’s model range.
