Perhaps Henry Ford was a maximalist and a racist, but he was able to create an efficient system of mass cars production , which allowed the company bearing his name to bring to the market one of the first available vehicles equipped with an internal combustion engine. Now the company Ford, according to the publication on the pages of the site Business Insider , expects by 2020 to launch an electric crossover capable of over 480 km on one charge. It is important that such an electric vehicle will not be excessively expensive.
High competition in this area, according to representatives of Ford, will only help to reduce the cost of batteries. This will benefit all market participants. The ideal electric car, according to Ford, should not force the owner to make compromises in terms of consumer qualities. In the foreseeable future, electric vehicles will cease to be expensive curiosities for the elite, but will turn into a mass mode of transport.
Interestingly, Ford does not exclude the possibility of the appearance in the future of electrified full-size pickups - like the very popular in the North American market model F-150. True, the representatives of the brand recognize that to create such "heavyweights on electric traction" it will be necessary to solve a number of technical problems.