Ford Puma to get all-electric powertrain and will be joined by two other all-new electric SUVs by 2024
- Three new Ford EVs by 2024
- Two SUVs based on VW’s MEB platform
- Four electric commercial vehicles also announced
Ford has announced that an electric version of the best-selling Ford Puma will arrive by 2024. This new model will also be joined by two other brand-new EVs that are set to bolster the brand’s electric range, which currently consists of only the Ford Mustang Mach-E SUV.
The new electric Ford Puma will be built in Romania, taking the place of the ageing Ford Ecosport which is due to be discontinued. Though details have yet to be confirmed, we expect the new electric Puma to look largely the same as its combustion-engined counterpart, with most likely just a handful of ‘EV’ badges and a noticeable lack of an exhaust pipe to differentiate the two.
The electric Puma will rival the likes of the Peugeot e-2008 and the Vauxhall Mokka-e and is likely to have a range of over 200 miles. We expect it to start from around £30,000, a similar price to the sporty, petrol-powered Ford Puma ST.
As for the other two models planned for the range, these cars will sit on Volkswagen’s MEB EV platform thanks to a deal brokered between the two brands. The first car is described as a five-seat ‘medium-sized crossover’ to rival Volkswagen’s own ID.4. Ford has already stated that this new model will have a range of 311 miles; this is only slightly less than the ID.4 Pro Performance’s 320 miles. It is due to be revealed by the end of this year and will go on sale in early 2023.
The other new arrival will take the form of a fashionable ‘sports crossover’. This car will be lower and smaller than the other model and has been teased using a new thunderbolt motif – potentially hinting at the revival of Ford’s ‘Lightning’ marque which debuted on the F150 SVT Lightning pickup truck of the 1990s. Both of these cars are set to be manufactured in Ford’s factory in Cologne, Germany, which currently builds the Ford Fiesta supermini.
In addition to the three new electric cars, Ford will also debut four electrified commercial vehicles by 2024, which will replace the current ‘Transit’ and ‘Tourneo’ lineup and join the recently revealed E-Transit in the brand’s van line-up.
All of this comes as part of Ford’s new ‘Model E’ sub-brand. With its name a reference to the famous Model T of the early 1900s, Model E aims to affirm the ‘blue oval’s’ place in the newly-evolving electric car market. Ford has announced they plan to sell 600,000 EVs per year in Europe by 2026, with the brand hoping to achieve carbon-neutrality by 2035.
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