Ford likely to produce more electric crossovers

It's no surprise every major car company has a thick folio of upcoming all-electric vehicles. According to the crew at Ford Authority, at least two forthcoming EVs out of Dearborn, Mich., will be mid-size crossovers.

If all goes as planned, the vehicles are expected to enter production late next year or early 2023, hitting dealer lots for the 2023 model year. Sizing will be roughly equivalent to that of the current Edge. And it's likely one of these new twins will wear a Ford badge, and the other a Lincoln one.

That means there may be five all-electric vehicles in Ford showrooms as the model year flips into 2023. The lineup already includes the Mustang Mach-E and the E-Transit, and the forthcoming electric F-150 is all but confirmed for that time as well.

In the first full month of Mustang Mach-E sales south of the border, a total of 3,739 vehicles found new homes after sitting on dealer lots for an average of just four days. Tellingly, nearly 70 per cent of Mach-E buyers are from competitive brands and just over one-fifth were sold in sunny California.

At a corporate governance event in February, Ford reiterated the company's intent to offer “compelling, uniquely Ford fully electric vehicles at scale” in areas of strength, including “Transit, F-series, Mustang, SUVs, and Lincoln.” The seemingly throwaway phrase “at scale” is anything but; it signifies Ford is intent on making a serious push with its EVs in these markets, not just producing a token number for compliance reasons.

Ford says it plans to invest about US$22 billion in electrification through 2025, including the roughly $7 billion already plowed into such projects up to the end of last year.