Dougfield, Ford’s Chief EV, Digital and Design Officer, who had previously run the Apple car program and guided the development of Model 3 in Tesla, secretly preparing the project to the Ford’s Inner Squake Works Team, called CE1.
“We make a structural battery out of the cells, and it is a car floor, so we actually made seats on it,” says the field. Therefore, to be clear, there is no battery frame or structure on which seats are bowled. The battery with Ford’s new model is its structure. How is it different from the current cell to chassis or cell to -pack technology? The field says “this is a cell from the cell,” and says it was very difficult to do.
“There is no magic progress here. It is really, really hard engineering,” he says. “And there are many problems to solve. Like, now you have a body that has no floor, how can you stop it from bending as soon as its line comes down?
“We knew we wanted to make (EV) differently, and we decided how we want to make them. Then we got a Huge We had to resolve the set of engineering problems to solve this task. The worst of these problems? Sealing, crash (power), corrosion, dimensional accuracy – all these things, in the end they have to do … that front end is certainly the most difficult. “
Yes, most of it is catching the latest items for EV, such as zonal architecture where different functions are controlled in different parts of the car, which you can already see in Tesla Model Y and many in China EV. Similarly, Tesla and Chinese makers are already used in large aluminum castings.
However, if Ford has actually been able to manufacture the car in three separate and complete modules, which is then complete and only bolts together, it is a real. Yes, Tesla has talked about doing something like this with her “inboxed” EV manufacturing process in 2023, but she has not done so yet. In other words, Ford defeated Tesla by cartoon here. Old dinosaur has turned into a coffee villainopter.
Like Ford’s new modular manufacturing, the number and pace of impressive people with which the company has won this undeniable win. “Really interestingly, what is compared to the team’s size (Skin Works) if Ford had to do it,” says Furley. “If we compel (Ford) do this, people will take five times.”
Field says, “When we agreed to start the program three years ago, we hired Alan Clark. He went to a building, and he was a man. Similarly, the project started.” Alan Clarke worked for the field in Tesla, where he helped to make Model 3, work on Y, cyber truck and more. “There are now people in China who have probably passed it, but at that time he had armed more electric vehicles than any of the world, so he was the right person.
Farley believes that Ford’s new method of making EV is the best weapon to take Chinese companies, which is a good example of how the West needs to compete. “You’ve got the BYD model: 700,000 employees, 200,000 power train engineers. How do you defeat them?” Farley asks.
“It turns out, Doug and Allen and the team created a propolus system that was like Apollo 13, entered the watt so that our battery can be so smaller than the battery. Their costs on vertical integration on the battery cannot be presented by the power train, but we cannot defeat them.”
