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Originally Posted by Silveradoss573
I could see Ford sticking it to gm and dodge by still offering a V8 pony car after those 2 fold and go all electric.
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I think Mustang and Corvette will be the last two domestic V8 cars left standing. GM has said they plan to be Zero Emissions for passenger cars by 2035. Seeing as how C8 is an all new platform and the 5.5L is an all new engine platform, GM will likely run those all the way to the end.
The Dodge platforms are so old that I think Stellantis will wind them down soon. Makes no sense to pour any more money into them and bringing in another ICE platform like Giorgio just doesn't make sense when everyone else is investing only in new BEV platforms.
In any event, in case anyone wasn't sure whether Ford is really all in on this EV thing, remember that they have pledged $30B for transition to BEV. Here's how they're spending the first $7B of that.
DETROIT — Ford Motor Co., in what it says is the largest single manufacturing investment in its 118-year history, on Monday said it would spend $7 billion and create nearly 11,000 jobs to build electric vehicles and batteries in Tennessee and Kentucky.
The investment, meant to vault Ford among the leaders in EV output, will include a 3,600-acre "mega campus" northeast of Memphis called Blue Oval City that will include Ford's first new vehicle assembly plant in more than 50 years. The site — three times the size of the automaker's sprawling Rouge Complex in Michigan —
will hire about 6,000 people to assemble next-generation electric F-Series pickups and include battery cell production and a supplier park, Ford said. It's expected to open in 2025.
South of Louisville, Ford will build a 1,500-acre battery park under its BlueOvalSK joint venture with battery supplier SK Innovation. The site will comprise two battery plants making advanced lithium ion batteries, with one opening in 2025 and the other in 2026. Ford said the Kentucky site will create 5,000 jobs.
SK Innovation is committing $4.4 billion on the projects, bringing the total investment to $11.4 billion, Ford said. Ford formed a partnership with SK Innovation in May after CEO Jim Farley reversed plans by his predecessor to buy batteries from outside suppliers, choosing to instead produce them in-house.
Ford said the two campuses will have annual battery production capacity of 129 gigawatt hours, which is enough to power 1 million EVs. The Tennessee battery plant will be dedicated to the next-generation F-Series, while the twin plants in Kentucky will make batteries for numerous Ford and Lincoln vehicles, the company said.
"This is a transformative moment where Ford will lead America's transition to electric vehicles and usher in a new era of clean, carbon-neutral manufacturing," Ford Executive Chair Bill Ford said in a statement. "With this investment and a spirit of innovation, we can achieve goals once thought mutually exclusive – protect our planet, build great electric vehicles Americans will love and contribute to our nation's prosperity."