Future Ford EVs "Deep Into Development," Will Use Smaller BatteriesFrom the link:
My take is that he's saying Ford will be adopting some 'best practices' they have identified in the competition, in the case of simplification perhaps moving towards 'gigpress' castings to both simplify and also improve quality. Gigapress certainly meets the description of 'radical simplification'.
I agree with the posters here that he seems to be saying smaller batteries with less range, but 2 things: 1) those products could still be designed to accept a longer range battery (ala MME), the better to allow the consumer to decide what range they want and 2) perhaps (a big maybe) he's anticipating some fruit from Ford's investments in solid state batteries which would allow Ford to design future vehicles with smaller batteries that maintain longer range relative to the size of the battery.
I think it's also important to remember the audience to whom he was speaking: the investment community. He's compelled to pitch cost savings, etc. to this group. There is probably much more going on with product planning that he did not reveal to this group because it would 'wooosh' right over their heads. They only want to hear about cost efficiency and so on.Sun, 05 Feb 2023 14:20:04 +0000
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