{"id":9276,"date":"2021-02-17T13:57:25","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T11:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/?p=9276"},"modified":"2021-02-17T13:57:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T11:57:34","slug":"ford-europe-goes-all-electric-by-2030-invests-one-billion-usd-in-cologne-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/2021\/02\/17\/ford-europe-goes-all-electric-by-2030-invests-one-billion-usd-in-cologne-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford Europe goes all-electric by 2030, invests one billion USD in Cologne site"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ford is taking a significant step forward in its European transformation with a commitment to go all-in on its electric passenger vehicles. Ford committed today that by mid-2026, 100 percent of Ford\u2019s passenger vehicle range in Europe will be zero-emissions capable, all-electric or plug-in hybrid, and will be completely all-electric by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Similarly, Ford\u2019s entire commercial vehicle range will be zero-emissions capable, all-electric or plug-in hybrid, by 2024, with two-thirds of Ford\u2019s commercial vehicle sales expected to be all-electric or plug-in hybrid by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe successfully restructured Ford of Europe and returned to profitability in the fourth quarter of 2020. Now we are charging into an all-electric future in Europe with expressive new vehicles and a world-class connected customer experience,\u201d said Stuart Rowley, president, Ford of Europe. \u201cWe expect to continue our strong momentum this year in Europe and remain on track to deliver our goal of a six percent EBIT margin as part of Ford\u2019s plan to turnaround our global automotive operations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spearheading Ford\u2019s advance into an all-electric future is a new 1 billion USD investment to modernize its vehicle assembly facility in Cologne, Germany, one of its largest manufacturing centers in Europe and the home of Ford of Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ford also confirmed that its first European-built, volume all-electric passenger vehicle for European customers will be produced at the facility from 2023, with the potential for a second all-electric vehicle built there under consideration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ford is taking a significant step forward in its European transformation with a commitment to go all-in on its electric passenger vehicles. Ford committed today that by mid-2026, 100 percent of Ford\u2019s passenger vehicle range in Europe will be zero-emissions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9279,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9276\/revisions\/9279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.automotive-today.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}