First Reactions I Ford Electric Vehicles
They call me sunshine in the plant. Been employed with 30 years. Second generation Louisville assembly plant. I hired in 2019. The next products that Ford make on this platform are lower cost and better for our customer. Traditionally, it’s an assembly line. This is more like an assembly tree. Everything is less wires, less travels of A to B, and then this wiring is going to get a lot smaller. Wow. In trim, all of the parts are inside the vehicle. If we make the vehicle easier, better to build. I think it’s going to help us retain employees. So, the stuff you saw in the PowerPoint before exists. It’s here. You can touch it. You can feel it. That is the size of the main body and wire harness. Wow. and it is not needed with a hoist to pick it up, to dump it, to then move it. A lot of the trim components in the interior have undergone design optimizations to make things easier to assemble. The front clip, when you tie this all up, things are right in front of you. You need to make an electrical connection right there in front of you. That’s amazing. When it came to the ergonomics, I’ve been there for 25 years and I’ve never seen anything like it. This is the weight of this part. Oh, that’s a new one. Wow. Right. That is magic. The other part of it too that we’ve seen is the the middle, right, which is the battery. It’s a lot easier to put the seats on, huh? It’s going to take so much stress off my body. I cannot wait. I never thought it could be made better, but it did. We couldn’t have you guys come all the way here without seeing the truck for the first time. So, why don’t you come with me and we’ll take a look. This is middleman. He goes by his middleman. Oh my god. Oh wow. That’s nice. That’s awesome. So that thing’s like the right size. I think I want one. Just watch how the quality is going to be on this vehicle. We’re going to be number one. It’s going to impact manufacturing for years to come. The amount of innovation that I saw here today going to be huge. Revolutionary.
Six employees from Louisville Assembly Plant and BlueOval Battery Park Michigan were invited to see the future of electric vehicle production and the first vehicle from the new Ford Universal EV Platform.
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