The period of the inner combustion engine has come to an finish on the Ford plant in Cologne. After 47 years, the final mannequin of the best-selling small automobile, the Ford Fiesta, rolled off the manufacturing line on 7 July.
From immediately, Ford will solely construct electrical automobiles in Cologne, and inaugurated its ‘Electrical Automobile Heart’ there in June. The Ford plant in Cologne-Niehl was transformed for the manufacturing of electrical automobiles with an funding of two billion US {dollars}. The annual manufacturing capability shall be 250,000 electrical automobiles sooner or later.
“We determined to construct our first high-volume electrical car right here in Cologne,” stated Martin Sander, normal supervisor of Ford Mannequin E Europe. “There comes the purpose the place we want the area for development, as a result of we’re turning the Fiesta plant into a completely battery-electric plant. For this reason we needed to decide that now we have to cease Fiesta manufacturing.”
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