Though demand for electric vehicles seems to have tapered off in recent months, The Blue Oval remains committed to global EV production. Its mission includes the assembly of key EV battery components, and one of the automaker’s most recent ventures involves battery pack assembly in Cologne, Germany, where operations recently kicked off.
Ford officially began mass assembly of battery packs at the Cologne Electric Vehicle Center in Germany in June 2025. The facility is responsible for the production of three different sized vehicle drive battery packs, an essential part of Ford Explorer and Ford Capri EV production which occurs on the same campus.
The battery pack production is part of a $2 billion investment in the Cologne plant, which has been a part of Ford’s assembly efforts in Europe for almost 100 years. Said investment helped Ford install 180 new robots that weld, glue, and screw battery housings together. The automaker estimates that 2,775 individual parts are assembled into each battery pack on the heavily automated assembly line, which spans nearly two kilometers, or roughly 1.24 miles.
Operations at the Cologne plant underscore Ford’s EV journey. CEO Jim Farley stated earlier this year that the automaker is gunning for doubled production of EVs throughout the 2025 calendar year, producing 260,000 individual models before the year is out. Farley noted that while EV growth has slowed in America, there’s still enough relatively healthy demand for the models globally to make it worth it.
This latest announcement follows the addition of the Ford Puma Gen-E to the automaker’s European EV lineup. The subcompact EV is based on the internal combustion crossover and entered into mass production in March 2025. With these latest launches, Ford has followed through on its EV product lineup announcement from 2022. That said, Ford is currently focused on solidifying its commercial operations in Europe over retail sales while it continues to adjust to a fiercely competitive market.
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