Ford secures battery supplies for 600,000 EVs a year from 2023

It will also start using LiFePO4 cells in the Mustang Mach-E and F-150 Lightning.

Ford's electric F-150 Lighting (L), eTransit (M), and Mustang Mach-E (R) battery-electric vehicles have all been such successes that they're all sold out for the rest of the year.

Enlarge / Ford's electric F-150 Lighting (L), eTransit (M), and Mustang Mach-E (R) battery-electric vehicles have all been such successes that they're all sold out for the rest of the year. (credit: Ford)

On Thursday, Ford Motor Company announced that it has secured 60 GWh of battery cells that will allow it to build 600,000 electric vehicles by late 2023. And it says it has contracts for cells that will allow it to build 1.4 million EVs by 2026, 70 percent of the 2 million EVs it plans to build globally that year.

"Ford's new electric vehicle lineup has generated huge enthusiasm and demand, and now we are putting the industrial system in place to scale quickly," said Jim Farley, Ford’s president and CEO and president of Ford Model e. "Our Model e team has moved with speed, focus, and creativity to secure the battery capacity and raw materials we need to deliver breakthrough EVs for millions of customers."

The automaker says that its plan for 2023 will consist of 270,000 Mustang Mach-Es for North America, Europe, and China, 150,000 F-150 Lightnings for North America, 150,000 e-Transit vans for North America and Europe, and it will launch an additional electric SUV in Europe, building 30,000 in 2023 before ramping up production significantly in 2024.

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The USPS will buy a lot more electric next-gen delivery vans

The Postal Service will buy commercial off-the-shelf EVs as well as NGDVs.

A rendering of the new USPS truck in a suburb

Enlarge / No, this isn't a rendering from a Pixar film; it's what the new USPS mail delivery vehicle will look like. (credit: USPS)

In 2021, the United States Postal Service picked a new delivery vehicle to replace its fleet of aging Grumman LLVs. However, the USPS drew immediate criticism, as the vast majority of a potential 165,000 Next Generation Delivery Vehicles, which will be built by Oshkosh Defense, would not be electric.

But on Wednesday, the USPS changed its mind and says it will now limit its NGDV purchase to 50,000 NGDVs, at least half of which will be battery-electric vehicles. Additionally, it says it will purchase 34,500 commercial off-the-shelf vehicles, "including as many BEVs as are commercially available and consistent with our delivery profile" according to the Federal Register.

Oshkosh's NGDV has been designed to be fitted with either an internal combustion engine or a battery-electric powertrain. When the USPS first selected the NGDV, it said that only 10 percent of the order would be for BEV mail vans—Postmaster Louis DeJoy pleaded poverty on behalf of the Postal Service, which he said could not afford to purchase more BEVs.

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Frag den Staat: Nur ausgedrucktes Internet ist grundrechtskonform

Frag den Staat druckt das Internet aus, weil das Verwaltungsgericht Berlin nur Druckerzeugnisse als Presse sieht. Eine sehr deutsche Posse. Ein IMHO von Sebastian Grüner (IMHO, Internet)

Frag den Staat druckt das Internet aus, weil das Verwaltungsgericht Berlin nur Druckerzeugnisse als Presse sieht. Eine sehr deutsche Posse. Ein IMHO von Sebastian Grüner (IMHO, Internet)

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Waffenlieferungen: Die USA wollen weitere Mehrfachraketenwerfer-Artilleriesysteme schicken. US-Verteidigungsminister Austin spricht von einem "großen Unterschied auf dem Schlachtfeld". Doch gibt es einige Unklarheiten.