Ford announces plans to increase electric vehicle production to 600K by 2023

Ford Motor Company’s CEO announced that the company was planning to increase its electric vehicle (EV) production to 600,000 cars by 2023.

“The demand is so much higher than we expected,” Jim Farley said in a report by Automotive News published on Thursday, according to CNBC. “It’s a really new experience for this big company, trying to be agile. We had to approach it very differently than we’ve done capacity planning.”

The increased EV production would affect its E-Transit, Mustang Mach-E and F-150 Lightning EVs, according to the Automotive News report, CNBC reported. Compared to what Ford originally anticipated producing over the next 24 months, the Ford CEO said the move would double those numbers.

Additionally, over 80 percent of those who are reservation holders for the F-150 Lightning EV will soon become converted to owners, Farley said.

The EV production news comes amid a push by President BidenJoe BidenHouse Democrats push vote on social spending plan to Friday Fauci says all adults should ‘go get boosted’ Senate confirms Park Service director after years of acting heads MORE to have half of vehicle sales be electric by 2030.

Following the announcement, Ford had said at the time it anticipated that between 40 and 50 percent of its vehicle sales would be electric by then.

In an effort to ramp up its production, Ford earlier this year signaled it would be investing in more resources in Kentucky and Tennessee to up its EV production.

Ford announced in September that it, along with South Korea’s SK Innovation, would be investing more than $11 billion dollars to go toward a pickup truck factory and three new battery plants. Ford said that 11,000 jobs would be created for those two states.

The issue of EVs has also been taken up in the Democratic climate change and social spending bill, which proposes providing more tax credits to EVs that are union-made. Among those supporting the push are Ford, General Motors and Stellantis. 

However, not all Democrats are on board, including Sen. Joe ManchinJoe ManchinOn The Money — House Democrats ready to Build Back Better Manchin: ‘Looking very favorably’ at Powell as Fed chair after meeting Manchin undecided on helping start debate on Biden spending bill MORE (D-W.Va.) who spoke at a Toyota event in West Virginia earlier this month. Toyota is one of a few companies against the proposal.

“When I heard about this, what they were putting in the bill, I went right to the sponsor [Sen. Debbie StabenowDeborah (Debbie) Ann StabenowBiden, top officials spread out to promote infrastructure package It’s time to give Medicare beneficiaries the opportunity and choice of recovery in the home Overnight Energy & Environment — Presented by ExxonMobil — Manchin blasts new spending bill provision MORE (D-Mich.)] and I said, ‘This is wrong. This can’t happen. It’s not who we are as a country. It’s not how we built this country, and the product should speak for itself,’ ” Manchin said to Automotive News during the Toyota event.

“We shouldn’t use everyone’s tax dollars to pick winners and losers. If you’re a capitalist economy that we are in society then you let the product speak for itself, and hopefully, we’ll get that, that’ll be corrected,” he added. 

The Hill has reached out to Ford for comment. 

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