It took its time. But now the interest in electric cars has begun to take hold elsewhere than in Norway as well. Some markets with such a weight that it has taken the car manufacturers to bed.
Ford, for example, had not imagined how many people would have the Mustang Mach-E and the pickup F-150 Lightning.
Thus, a luxury problem has arisen: the capacity of the factories is not high enough – and something must be done.
Triple production
Now Ford boss Jim Farley is going out and saying that they simply want to triple production of Mach-E by 2023.
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The goal is to produce over 200,000 copies of the popular electric SUV in Europe and North America next year.
Several thousand of these are going here to Norway. Around 6,000 copies have been registered so far this year.
Now the top model Mach-E GT has also been launched, with 487 horsepower and a range of 500 kilometers.
As far as Broom is aware, delivery for this is estimated for the summer of 2022, if you order now.
Read our first impression of the Mach-E GT here
Popular pickup
Mach-E is in many ways the start of Ford’s real electric car venture (Focus Electric must have apologized to us, because it was half-hearted stuff). But soon it will be joined by more emission-free models.
Production of the electric pickup F-150 Lightning will start this spring.
Here, too, the reception has exceeded all expectations. So far, around 200,000 orders have been received, which means that the possibility of ordering the car has now been temporarily closed. The backlog would simply be too big, otherwise.
– The interior of the Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup.
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Many became more expensive, but not the Mustang Mach-E
160,000 cars a year
Ford has previously said it will increase production of the F-150 Lightning electric pickup.
Now, according to the American website insideev.com, the plan is to gear up even more – to 160,000 cars a year in 2023. Twice as much as first planned.
In addition, Ford also has an electric van: the E-Transit.
Insideev.com has calculated that the total production of electric cars will be around 50,000 cars per month, by the end of 2023. Then we are talking annual volume of around 600,000 electric cars from Ford alone in 2024.
“Megabox” – see what they have come up with here
Batteries a challenge
Farley says that the biggest challenge in maintaining a high pace of production is batteries.
They have therefore invested in three new gig factories in Tennessee and Kentucky. But it will take a few years before these are in place. Initially, a start-up in 2025 is envisaged.
It says something about what an enormous investment this is, that the new factories will contribute with over 11,000 jobs.
Here they test the range of the Mustang Mach-E, from Oslo to Trondheim
Video: Here is our first encounter with the Mustang Mach-E:
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