The facility from the 1930s is going electric.
Ford has today opened its Cologne Electric Vehicle Center, part of the automaker’s push to become an all-electric car company by 2030. The American automaker’s Cologne plant was originally founded in 1930, but
it would be transforming it into an EV manufacturing center at a cost of $1 billion. As of today, the company says the plant’s transformation is “part of a $2 billion investment.”all-electric Explorer made exclusively for Europe . The company is billing the crossover SUV built on top of VW’s MEB platform as its fourth electric vehicle behind the Mustang Mach-E, E-Transit, and F-150 Lightning. A “sports crossover” is scheduled to be the second electric vehicle produced at the plant. The Cologne EV center will have a total production capacity of 250,000 electric vehicles a year, according to Ford., including three passenger vehicles and four commercial vehicles by 2024.
Ford is describing the facility as its first carbon neutral assembly plant globally, and says it hopes to be carbon neutral across its European “facilities, logistics and direct suppliers” by 2035. Ford’s executive chair Bill Ford says the Cologne EV Center will be “one of the most efficient and environmentally responsible plants in the entire industry.”
The obvious comparison for Ford’s electric-focused German assembly plant is Tesla’s Berlin Gigafactory, which
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