Saarlouis factory lost out to Valencia plant in Spain in bid to build new EVs
, the family car that epitomised the company’s 1990s renaissance and became a byword for fun-to-drive family cars, will be killed off in 2025, a casualty of Ford’s shift towards an electrified lineup.
The news came with Ford’s announcement that it will end car production at its Saarlouis, Germany, factory where the Focus is currently produced. Saarlouis was in the running to manufacture Ford’s next generation of electric vehicles, but lost out to the firm’s Valencia plant in Spain. “We do not have in our planning cycle an additional model that goes into Saarlouis,” Ford of Europe Chairman Stuart Rowley told reporters, adding that Ford was investigating “other opportunities” for the plant that include selling it to another carmaker.
Clearly that will mean job losses in Germany, though it’s conceivable that’s some workers could be transferred to Ford’s other German plant in Cologne, which is scheduled to begin production of a new crossover based on VW’s MEB electric architecture in 2023.
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