Ford Motor Co's electric vehicle battery joint venture with South Korea's SK Innovation Co Ltd will extend beyond North America into Europe, a senior Ford executive said on Wednesday
In May, Ford announced the joint venture with SK to produce about 60 gigawatt-hours annually in battery cells and array modules, starting mid-decade, with potential to expand. The plan would include two North American plants.
“We're very excited about this joint venture and it's going to be beyond just North America,” Hau Thai-Tang, Ford's chief product platform and operations officer, said at a JPMorgan conference. “It will certainly extend into Europe.” Ford's global EV plan calls for at least 240 GWh of battery cell capacity by 2030, equal to about 10 plants, Thai-Tang previously said. Some 140 GWh of that will be required in North America, with the balance in other regions, including Europe and China.
Also in May, Ford outlined plans to boost spending on electrification efforts by more than a third to more than $30bn On Wednesday, Thai-Tang said beyond batteries and battery pack assembly, Ford also has brought in house the production of gear boxes and motors for electrification, and was looking at software and semiconductor chips for possible vertical integration.
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