Ford Otosan, He made a series of remarkable statements about the domestic transmission and electric car plans developed by Turkish engineers. Here are the details.
Ford Otosan, one of the leading names in the Turkish automotive industry, made important statements about the batteries that will belong to both domestic transmissions and electric cars a while ago. Following these important developments, new statements came from the company, updating these statements. of the brand Operations Leader Güven Özyurt “As Ford Trucks, we produced the transmission at the Eskişehir Plant, after the Ecotorq engine and rear axle, and increased the rate of locality in the vehicle to 90 percent, and we became one of the world’s leading automotive brands that produce all three of these systems. During our product development studies, we developed it by evaluating every condition that may be encountered on the road for 17 thousand hours in total and over 1 million kilometers in 5 different countries, in different climatic conditions.
As of October 2021, we started to use our domestic gearbox, which will contribute greatly to our competitiveness with its many features, in all vehicles except the F-MAX that we sell in the Turkish market. We aim to offer domestic transmissions to all markets by the end of 2022.”
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We are currently building Ford Europe’s first commercial electric vehicle, the E-Transit, in our Kocaeli facilities. In addition, the new generation Transit Custom series, which includes fully electric models that improve Ford’s electrification strategy and commercial vehicle leadership in Europe, will be produced by Ford Otosan in Turkey.
This investment we mentioned will make great contributions to the electric transformation of the Turkish automotive industry. Thanks to this investment, whose investment period will last 6 years and the impact will exceed 10 years, Ford Otosan’s vehicle production capacity will reach 650 thousand excluding trucks, and the battery assembly plant capacity will reach 130 thousand units. With this investment, we provide additional employment for 3 thousand people directly and approximately 15 thousand people in the sub-industry.
Ford Otosan plays an important role in electric vehicle production
Thus, we play an enormous role in the electrical transformation of the Turkish automotive industry. With the increasing importance of our country in the production of electric commercial vehicles, our Kocaeli plants will become Turkey’s first home integrated production facility and will turn into Ford’s electric commercial vehicle production base.
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We announced that the first fully electric version of the Transit, the world’s most preferred commercial vehicle model in 2021, will be produced in the second quarter of 2022 at Ford Otosan Gölcük Plant for customers in Europe.
At our Kocaeli facilities, we are currently producing Ford Europe’s first commercial electric vehicle, the E-Transit. We are very happy to bring Europe’s most powerful engine, fully electric commercial vehicle E-Transit off the line this year.” made statements.