Ford Mustang Mach-E Hits 150,000, Ford Second in U.S. EV Gross sales

The Ford Mustang Mach-E is into its second yr of manufacturing, consider it or not, and Ford is celebrating the meeting of the 150,000th Mustang Mach-e with optimism for the way forward for its EVs. The milestone Mustang Mach-e rolled off the road at Ford’s Cuautitlán (coo-ow-teet-lán) Stamping and Meeting Plant in Mexico state, the place manufacturing is ramping up because the Ford manufacturing unit expands.

The American carmaker is including new battery and chassis strains to the plant, in addition to a further meeting line, in an effort to scale manufacturing of its EVs by an enormous margin. Ford says it desires to be making 600,000 EVs per yr by the tip of 2023, after which 2 million by 2026. Proper now, the Mustang EVs take 10 days from the beginning of meeting to the supplier lot, however that quantity might shrink as we get nearer to 2026. The two-million mark is the worldwide manufacturing purpose, after all, which contains EVs made abroad and people made in North America.

For now, these North American EVs would be the Ford Mustang Mach-e and the Ford F-150 Lightning, which is made on the Rogue Electrical Automobile Middle in Dearborn, Michigan. Ford desires to succeed in an analogous milestone with the F-150 Lightning pickup truck as that of the Mach-e; the corporate plans to be making 150,000 Lightning EVs per yr by 2023.

The F-150 Lightning nonetheless has a solution to go to catch as much as the Mustang Mach-e, which went into manufacturing nearly two years in the past. Certainly, the debut of Ford’s electrical crossover looks like it occurred far more just lately, however we’ll chalk that as much as the worldwide pandemic and the transitional state of the auto trade.

It may be that the Mustang Mach-e nonetheless appears comparatively uncommon to many. Or no less than evidently solution to me, for whom sightings of the Mach-e are so uncommon that I nonetheless leap up and repair my gaze on the EV once I see one within the wild. I just like the Mach-e; it’s an excellent various to the numerous Teslas that I see on Texas roads.

That novelty and recognition has caught Ford unexpectedly, too, in line with the carmaker itself:

“Once we put the horse on this Mustang, we knew we’d have skeptics. What we didn’t fairly know then was simply how well-liked this automobile would turn out to be,” stated Darren Palmer, vice chairman, Electrical Automobile Packages, Ford Mannequin e. “I like seeing Mustang Mach-E autos on the street and speaking to prospects, and I’m seeing increasingly more of them.”

And the Mustang Mach-e’s regular progress is just going to get steadier and acquire momentum now that Ford is releasing the electrical automobile in 15 extra markets, together with New Zealand, Brazil and Argentina. The EV will now be offered in 37 nations around the globe, up from 22 throughout its first yr of gross sales. That variety of export nations might go larger nonetheless when Mach-e manufacturing will get additional streamlined at Cuautitlán and elsewhere.