{"id":252174,"date":"2024-06-05T07:06:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T07:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/mass-production-of-new-all-electric-explorer-starts-at-fords-ev-assembly-plant-in-cologne\/"},"modified":"2024-06-05T07:06:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T07:06:58","slug":"mass-production-of-new-all-electric-explorer-starts-at-fords-ev-assembly-plant-in-cologne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/mass-production-of-new-all-electric-explorer-starts-at-fords-ev-assembly-plant-in-cologne\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass Production Of New All-Electric Explorer Starts At Ford\u2019s EV Assembly Plant In Cologne"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News!<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<ul>\n<li>The all-electric Ford Explorer, the first vehicle off the production line in the new Ford Cologne Electric Vehicle Center, is on its way to customers across the region<\/li>\n<li>A second EV, a new sports crossover, will be revealed shortly with production in Cologne starting later this year<\/li>\n<li>Ford\u2019s historic plant in Cologne was transformed as part of a $2 billion investment into a state-of-the-art Electric Vehicle Center to ensure high-quality EV production<\/li>\n<li>Ford\u2019s new EV Center is a key element of Ford\u2019s Road to Better plan targeting carbon neutrality across its European production footprint of facilities, logistics and direct suppliers by 2035<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Today, Ford started mass production of the new all-electric Ford Explorer at its first dedicated electric vehicle (EV) facility in Europe following a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2024\/06\/04\/mass-production-of-new-all-electric-explorer-starts-at-fords-ev-assembly-plant-in-cologne\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read the full article originally published at cleantechnica.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. 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The all-electric Ford Explorer, the first vehicle off the production line in the new Ford Cologne Electric Vehicle Center, is on its way to customers across the region A second EV, a new sports crossover, will be revealed shortly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":252175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mass Production Of New All-Electric Explorer Starts At Ford\u2019s EV Assembly Plant In Cologne - Republic of Green News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2024\/06\/04\/mass-production-of-new-all-electric-explorer-starts-at-fords-ev-assembly-plant-in-cologne\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mass Production Of New All-Electric Explorer Starts At Ford\u2019s EV Assembly Plant In Cologne\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. 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