There are many questions surrounding Ford Almussafes’ electrification process, including when and how the investment will come, which should be the first step before finding out. future models produced at the Valencia factory. There is no news about them at the moment, other than the fact that it is – at least officially – a multinational idea unchanged in the factory’s decision to produce electric cars with the GE2 platform, structure evolved from the current GE1 installed in Mexico.
This is the perspective that last year placed the future evolution of the company’s first 100% electric sports SUV, the Mustang Mach-e produced in Mexican territory, as one of the favorites to arrive at Almussafes in the new year is, the horizon of which is still unconfirmed. What this week’s oval signing made official is that Spain will become the third country in Europe – after the UK and Germany – to allow the Mustang Mach-e It can drive autonomously thanks to ‘BlueCruise’ technology.
Specifically, as company sources explained to this newspaper, after this initiative received permission from the DGT, the project was launched, namely can be used on all vehicle models ordered starting October 12, while the oldest are planned to be combined next year. The system will allow users to drive without having to hold the steering wheel on all roads designated as “Blue Zones”, about 27,000 kilometers in Spain between motorways and motorways.
Maintain attention
On this journey, Ford’s technology – which can be tried free for 90 days, but can then be used with a subscription – does help. forces the driver’s attention to the roadcannot look away, and monitor speed signs and traffic conditions, controlling direction, acceleration or braking in parallel.
Ford experienced strikes at several of its factories in the United States which affected thousands of workers. However, despite its large impact, the Almussafes factory did not have any impact. This is what Carlos Faubel, president of the factory workers’ council and top leader of the majority union, UGT, explained to this newspaper yesterday, highlighting that production such as machines produced at the Valencia factory that are headed to North America have their destination in Canada, for which “the strike has no effect here.”
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