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In addition to many articles out there like the one below published over the past many months, there is plenty of evidence there is and will be big problems producing the Hybrid Maverick until the battery supply problems ease. Ford certainly saw this coming for some time because just a few months ago additional Ford 2.0 Ecoboost engines were assigned to be built at the Cleveland Engine Plant in Ohio. This indicated that the existing plant supplying 2.0 EB engines were going to need help meeting demand. This directly relates to the 65% - 35% (Eco-Hybrid) numbers released just prior to opening the 2023 order banks.
Increasing the manufacturing of the Hybrid engine is not the problem, Ford could and would -- if they could just get more 27-kW, 1.1-kWh battery packs.
Please understand I am not saying Ford handled Maverick production overall the best they could have. I have been waiting eleven months for a Hybrid Lariat that was pushed to 2023. The thought of others waiting longer is absurd.
1. I can understand most of what Ford is dealing with but the biggest "constraint" for me has been information.
2. If the folks at Farley's Steakhouse would just tell us how many people are in line, we would have some idea when we would be seated!
3. If they knew they were going to run out of Steaks, they should not have let more people get in line.
By: Nat Rubio-Licht
April 18, 2022
The ongoing global chip crunch has made consumer electronics tougher to track down. The electric vehicle industry faces a similar conundrum, but instead of semiconductors, companies are staring down a shortage of materials to make batteries. Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe predicted that the supply of EV batteries would become a huge issue in years to come.
The chip crunch, Scaringe said, would look like a "small appetizer to what we are about to feel on battery cells over the next two decades," according to the Wall Street Journal.
While giving press a tour of the company's factory in Normal, Illinois, last week, Scaringe said that building enough batteries to keep up with demand for EVs would be a major hurdle for the industry. He anticipates shortages in every part of the battery building process, including mining raw materials like cobalt, lithium and nickel, processing materials and building the battery cells themselves.
“Put very simply, all the world’s cell production combined represents well under 10% of what we will need in 10 years,” Scaringe told reporters, according to the WSJ. “Meaning, 90% to 95% of the supply chain does not exist."
Increasing the manufacturing of the Hybrid engine is not the problem, Ford could and would -- if they could just get more 27-kW, 1.1-kWh battery packs.
Please understand I am not saying Ford handled Maverick production overall the best they could have. I have been waiting eleven months for a Hybrid Lariat that was pushed to 2023. The thought of others waiting longer is absurd.
1. I can understand most of what Ford is dealing with but the biggest "constraint" for me has been information.
2. If the folks at Farley's Steakhouse would just tell us how many people are in line, we would have some idea when we would be seated!
3. If they knew they were going to run out of Steaks, they should not have let more people get in line.
By: Nat Rubio-Licht
April 18, 2022
The ongoing global chip crunch has made consumer electronics tougher to track down. The electric vehicle industry faces a similar conundrum, but instead of semiconductors, companies are staring down a shortage of materials to make batteries. Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe predicted that the supply of EV batteries would become a huge issue in years to come.
The chip crunch, Scaringe said, would look like a "small appetizer to what we are about to feel on battery cells over the next two decades," according to the Wall Street Journal.
While giving press a tour of the company's factory in Normal, Illinois, last week, Scaringe said that building enough batteries to keep up with demand for EVs would be a major hurdle for the industry. He anticipates shortages in every part of the battery building process, including mining raw materials like cobalt, lithium and nickel, processing materials and building the battery cells themselves.
“Put very simply, all the world’s cell production combined represents well under 10% of what we will need in 10 years,” Scaringe told reporters, according to the WSJ. “Meaning, 90% to 95% of the supply chain does not exist."
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