Angrily hit 1 billion euros. Ford's MEB era is about to begin?

According to foreign media reports, in order to produce pure electric vehicles under the MEB platform, Ford will invest 1 billion euros in the Cologne plant. Previously, the media had been speculating that the MEB project would be located in the Craiova factory in Romania, where labor costs are lower. Now that I choose Cologne, Germany, I must be closer to our ally Volkswagen Group, but the above plan has not been officially confirmed by Ford.

『Ford MEB platform production plan』

In addition to production, Ford's new car based on the MEB platform will also be designed at the European Development Center near Cologne. This car will be officially launched in 2023. At the same time, the company may continue to develop a second pure electric vehicle based on the MEB platform. In the six years from 2023, Ford will deliver more than 600,000 pure electric vehicles built on the MEB platform in Europe.

Because they all use the same platform and parts of the same specifications, the outside world is worried that Ford's pure electric vehicles will lose their due characteristics. In response to the above remarks, Ford Europe President Stuart Rowley said that although they all use the MEB platform, Ford’s pure electric vehicles will maintain a high degree of differentiation from Volkswagen. 'Our electric cars are labeled Ford. They look like Ford, drive like Ford, feel like Ford, and they will be made by Ford.'

Editor's comment:

Today, the first mass-produced car Volkswagen ID.3 under the MEB platform has been delivered, and it quickly swept the European market, becoming the best-selling electric car in Europe in October with 10,315 vehicles. Looking at Volkswagen's excellent record, Ford is also eager to try, but I don't know what is the electric car that was also born on the MEB platform but is very 'Ford' in all aspects?