Ford’s including Tremendous Obligation heavy-duty pickup truck manufacturing to its Canadian manufacturing unit
Ford initially stated it could use that manufacturing unit to construct EVs
The transfer would possibly sign an electrified Ford Tremendous Obligation HD pickup is coming
Ford will construct Tremendous Obligation heavy-duty pickup vans at a manufacturing unit beforehand slated to construct EVs.
The automaker on Thursday introduced that it’s going to add Tremendous Obligation manufacturing at its Oakville Meeting Advanced in Ontario, Canada, beginning in 2026. The transfer will enhance manufacturing capability by 100,000 models, in accordance with Ford, which additionally plans so as to add jobs and/or additional time at an Ontario engine plant and three U.S. elements vegetation to assist this. The 2 vegetation at the moment producing the Tremendous Obligation made 200,000 of the vans within the first half of 2024, Ford stated.
Ford Oakville meeting plant
The Oakville plant beforehand assembled the Ford Edge and Lincoln Nautilus crossovers, however was slated to shift to EV manufacturing beginning this 12 months. Ford in 2020 stated it could allocate 5 electrical fashions to the plant, with the final rolling out in 2028, as a part of a brand new cope with the native union after the automaker opted to not proceed manufacturing of the Edge and Nautilus in Oakville.
However Ford has been pulling again on EV plans recently. In April Ford introduced that it could delay its next-generation electrical truck, often called T3, by a 12 months, and {that a} previously-announced electrical three-row SUV would arrive two years later than deliberate. Ford stated on the time that it was refocusing on hybrids, with plans so as to add a hybrid powertrain to each mannequin.
2024 Ford Tremendous Obligation F-250
Across the identical time, Ford launched monetary outcomes exhibiting vital losses on EVs, or a minimum of those attributed to the automaker’s Mannequin E enterprise unit. Mannequin E handles electrical passenger vehicles, however EVs are additionally offered by different Ford models, together with the Fleet-minded Ford Professional. Ford on the time promised more-affordable EVs that would promote in bigger numbers, however these will seemingly take a while to reach.
In the meantime, Ford has been spied testing what seems to be an electrical pickup with in-wheel motors and the eight-lug wheels usually utilized by heavy-duty vans just like the Tremendous Obligation. However stays to be seen whether or not this expertise will attain manufacturing.