There are two key stories within the announcement that Ford will expand its range of vehicles developed on VW’s MEB platform, to two, and significantly increased its planned MEB volume, to 1.2 million units over the next six years, from the 600,000 previously announced. The first is of course the growth of Ford’s European electrification plans. The second, and probably more interesting, is the reassertion of the strategy that VW is pursuing in becoming a platform supplier to multiple third-party OEMs. As we have been asserting for many years…

 

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