Ford confirms two new flexible electric car architectures
Speaking at Ford’s Capital Markets Day investor presentation, Hau Thai-Tang, chief product platform and operations officer, confirmed the two new scalable platforms. While the second is more relevant for American-market vehicles, the first platform could underpin future European products from the Blue Oval.
Thai-Tang said, “Just as our customers aren’t all the same, our BEV architectures won’t be either. Our new rear-wheel-drive/all-wheel-drive flexible architecture will deliver a whole new generation of high-volume vehicles with even better returns, because it supports high production scale.
“Our architecture approach still allows us to share parts across vehicles. Rest assured, while some of the technologies are shared, the vehicles themselves and the experiences they create for Ford customers will be very different,
Ford already has partnerships with Volkswagen and Rivian for electric vehicle architectures, and Thai-Tang outlined how these agreements fit in with the Blue Oval’s new plans.
