Ford’s desire to build and sell extended-range EVs is a fairly new development that started with some cryptic comments from CEO Jim Farley last year, who later acknowledged that such models have a lot of appeal at the moment. A recent report indicates that the automaker plans to add an EREV option to the Ford Super Duty lineup, along with more than one crossover and/or SUV, too, though those models aren’t expected to arrive until around 2027, which is also true of its second-generation EVs. However, it seems as if Ford is already baking a little flexibility into its under-construction EV plans.
According to Bloomberg, the BlueOval City complex in Tennessee may not only produce all-electric vehicles as previously expected, but also, it could be modified to build EREVs a well. “We have flexibility to create plants that can do different things,” said Marin Gjaja, head of Ford Model e. If this is indeed the case, those EREV models could join the second-generation Ford F-150 EV on the assembly line at the Tennessee Electric Vehicle Center at some point.
The Blue Oval did recently adjust its production target for the second-generation Ford F-150 EV following softening demand for the existing Ford F-150 Lightning. Ford now plans to build less than 100,000 units of that model annually at the Tennessee Electric Vehicle Center when it comes online in 2027, compared to the 300,000 that it originally intended to produce there. The next-generation EV pickup was also originally expected to enter production in 2025, but that date was later pushed back to 2027.
That’s also true of Ford’s new/lower-cost EVs and EREVs, which aren’t expected to arrive until 2027, either. In the meantime, the automaker plans on adding new features to its existing all-electric vehicles to keep them competitive, such as the Rally version of the Ford Mustang Mach-E, as well as a newly standard heat pump that debuted across that same lineup for 2025.
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