An electric pickup truck from Nissan is under active consideration with a starting price around $40,000. We can't wait!
Mention a new battery electric sedan to people and watch their eyes glaze over. It could clean your house, do the laundry, and make buttermilk biscuits for breakfast, but most people would rather stick a fork in their eye than drive a sedan. But say the magic words “pickup truck” and people perk up their ears.
Todd Dunn, president of UAW Local 862, the local that represents the 3,200 hourly workers at LAP, said Thursday he wasn’t aware of the specific product committed to the plant, but he said all of Ford’s North American plants will receive commitments through the contract. Dunn noted that LAP is the closest Ford plant to the BlueOval SK EV battery factories in Hardin County, Kentucky, which will supply batteries for Ford EVs.
The EV commitment is a win for LAP, considering Ford had no plan for the Escape beyond the 2025 model year, the source said. The hope is that the “all new” EV — Ford hasn’t been any more specific about the model — is the first of several EVs that could bring the plant back to a three-shift operation for the first time since 2017, the heyday of the Escape, the source said.
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