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As expected differences surface between partners in initial stages itself.

Partners Volkswagen AG and Ford Motor Co are at odds over how much the German automaker will invest in the No. 2 U.S. automaker’s self-driving vehicle unit, with Ford seeking at least $500 million (389 million pounds)

VW has resisted agreeing to invest in Ford’s autonomous vehicle unit, instead preferring to announce the companies will simply work together in that area

Some of the hesitation centers around questions about Ford’s technology

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Ford Slated To Receive VW’s MEB Platform For Electric Vehicles.

Volkswagen’s supervisory board is due to discuss deepening the alliance at a meeting on July 11, 2019.

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Ford is evaluating to build more than One MEB-based EV In Europe.

Ford’s initial plan was to use VW’s MEB platform in order to design a new battery-electric model for its European operations, while expecting to sell more than 600,000 MEB-based vehicles in Europe over the span of six years beginning with 2023

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Ford, Volkswagen to make about 8 million commercial vehicles.

8 million units of medium pickup trucks and commercial vans during the lifecycle of the vehicles as part of an alliance announced last year.

The automakers will collaborate on a city van built by Volkswagen, a 1-ton cargo van developed by Ford, and a Volkswagen medium pickup built on the Ford Ranger platform, from 2022.

The No. 2 U.S. automaker will also make a new electric vehicle for Europe by 2023, built on Volkswagen’s Modular Electric Drive toolkit, and could deliver more than 600,000 units over several years

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Ford and Volkswagen expand their collaboration on electric models.



- Ford will build another electric model based on the MEB platform
- MEB volume to double to 1.2 million units over the lifecycle
- Next step of the strategic alliance with Ford in commercial vehicles, electrification and autonomous driving
- Ford has not yet given details of what will be its next launch in using the MEB platform, but they indicate that its first model with this platform will come out in 2023.

Ford anticipates its future all-electric models in Europe:







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Ford teases Volkswagen-based electric SUV for Europe ahead of 2023 reveal.

It'll ride on the MEB platform and have boxy styling.

Ford has taken some shocking decisions in recent months by announcing plans to terminate production of the Fiesta in 2023 while the larger Focus will bow out in 2025. Indirectly replacing these iconic nameplates will be a new wave of electric vehicles, beginning with a "Medium-Size Crossover" teased earlier this year. To be assembled in Cologne, the EV is showing some skin ahead of next year's launch in Europe.

This "Medium-Size Crossover" will slot above an all-electric version of the Puma subcompact crossover the Blue Oval intends to make in Romania and have on sale in 2024. The Dearborn-based marque has also promised a "Sport Crossover" positioned between the model teased here and the already available Mustang Mach-E. Coming in 2024 from the same German factory, that will also sit on the MEB architecture and might be Ford's equivalent of the VW ID.5. Consequently, expect a slightly lowered SUV with a swoopy roofline.

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Ford to cut dependence on VW for next generation of electric cars.

Ford won’t use VW’s platform on Next-Gen European EVs.

Starting in the middle of the decade, Ford Europe will introduce new EVs based on its own platform.

Ford signed an agreement with Volkswagen to use the German automaker’s electric vehicle platform in some of its European vehicles. Now, before the first electric product of that collaboration has even been unveiled, the end is already being foretold.

Starting in the middle of this decade, the automaker’s European branch will start using an EV platform that was developed by Ford instead of another brand. Engineering for the new platform is taking place in the U.S., Martin Sander, Ford’s European head of electric vehicles, told the Financial Times.

The new platform will have “no kind of integration [with VW], it is very versatile, very capable,” Sander said. “We are exploring all kinds of opportunities, how far can we go, what kind of segments can we cover with this

Although Ford has not taken a final decision on the future of its relationship with VW, with which it said it would be collaborating on EVs, self-driving, and commercial vehicles, the American automaker currently has plans to only build two EVs on VW’s MEB platform, it would seem.


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