By Redação AutoIndústria | 3/28/23 | Translated by Jorge Meditsch
The development of a new fully electric pickup was confirmed by Ford this Tuesday, 3/28, in the United States. The project is advanced and should leave the computers to reach the streets already in 2025. Nevertheless, the manufacturer did not release the model’s details and technical data.
Still known as T3 Project – from “Trust The Truck” – the future model will be produced at the BlueOval City electric vehicle and batteries mega plant in Tennessee. With an early capacity for 500 thousand vehicles, the factory is a partnership between Ford and SK On and will cost US$ 5.6 billion.
“The T3 project is a unique opportunity to revolutionize pickups in America. We are blending Ford’s 100 years of experience with pickups with the best in electric vehicles, software and aerodynamics. It’s an unlimited platform regarding capacity and innovation’, said Jim Farley, Ford’s president and CEO.
According to the manufacturer, the future vehicle’s manufacturing process ‘will be innovator, with a radical simplicity, efficient cost and technologies that will make the BlueOval City a modern equivalent to Henry Ford’s Rouge plant”.
The assembly area will be 30% smaller than in traditional plants. It should be a model for the manufacturer, which intends to have all its premises worldwide carbon-neutral by 2035.
With the new plant and pickup, Ford expects to achieve the production of two million electric vehicles a year worldwide up to the end of 2026.
The brand already has the electric F-150 Lightning (photo) but says the new model, possibly its successor, will bring new standards as a fully updatable product in constant improvement and able to tow, haul and supply energy.
