Video: 2022 Ford Maverick Assembly & Production Line @ Factory – Stamping, Paint, Final Assembly 👷🏼‍♂️

[Darnon]

That battery looked decent size! I am very curious.

That's tiny compared to a PHEV-sized battery pack or even the previous generation air cooled 1.5 kWH batteries.

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[MortyHooper]

That's tiny compared to a PHEV-sized battery pack or even the previous generation air cooled 1.5 kWH batteries.

Good to know, thanks for confirming.

 

[MLowe05]

Originally US companies claimed outsourcing due to pensions. Hyundai Honda etc hasn't been here long enough to have retirees.

Perhaps not Hyundai, but Honda has been building cars in Marysville, OH for 39 years. I'm sure they have retirees.

 

[dalola]

Perhaps not Hyundai, but Honda has been building cars in Marysville, OH for 39 years. I'm sure they have retirees.

Guilty!

Of course, the transplants have retirees, but it's peanuts compared to the big three. Honda axed the pension plan (for new hires) around 2015 if I recall correctly.

 

[mikellmikell]

I ordered 7 16 2021 and have heard nothing so far.

 

[Ron Neal]

The platform for the Escape is the same and the Escape is built in the Louisville Plant. Why build the E-CVT transmission in the US , the engine in Spain and ship to Mexico?

2.0 EB engines are built in Spain and Ohio and think the hybrid 2.5 engines built in Mexico.

 

[V2WIN]

That's awesome. Glad to see an American company able to provide work to families in a country where there may not be other options except drugs. With a labor shortage here in the US, seems like our American workers are just fine.

Sometimes the best way to stop over immigration is to improve life in the mother country.

Perhaps not Hyundai, but Honda has been building cars in Marysville, OH for 39 years. I'm sure they have retirees.

They do now but 25 years ago none gm/ ford / Chrysler had 5-6 hundred thousand

 

[TruckGuySC]

It looks very heavily automated, and if so, why couldn't they build the plant here in the United States? The excuse is usually the "American labor rates are too high", but it doesn't seem super labor intensive, and with automation like that the jobs it creates would be decently high paying desirable ones to program and maintain that sophisticated equipment.

Ford has many plants like that in the USA. Some more automated. F-150 production line in Dearborn, MI

 

[TruckGuySC]

2.0 EB engines are built in Spain and Ohio and think the hybrid 2.5 engines built in Mexico.

The Eco-Boost engine for the Mav is built in USA

 

[Ih8thew82]

I wonder what Henry Ford would have said about this evolution of his assembly line. The sophistication is mind-boggling to me, as one with no experience in manufacturing.

 

[mrjspence]

It looks very heavily automated, and if so, why couldn't they build the plant here in the United States? The excuse is usually the "American labor rates are too high", but it doesn't seem super labor intensive, and with automation like that the jobs it creates would be decently high paying desirable ones to program and maintain that sophisticated equipment.

taxes, osha, worker force, unions, etc would be my guess… MONEY end of day

 

[2022EOW]

It looks very heavily automated, and if so, why couldn't they build the plant here in the United States? The excuse is usually the "American labor rates are too high", but it doesn't seem super labor intensive, and with automation like that the jobs it creates would be decently high paying desirable ones to program and maintain that sophisticated equipment.

You see lots of robots, but per a web search, 1,500 people work there, that's a pretty good pay liability every month. Ford is investing in the future in the US with the recent electric vehicle facility they are building in Ky and Tn, $11 billion investment, 11,000 jobs.

 

[Darnon]

The Eco-Boost engine for the Mav is built in USA

Nope, Spain

 

[JASmith]

Nope, Spain

MVP! Thanks!

 

[Guardian]

Because this plant was already built? Not having a whole new assembly plant to establish is a pretty important factor when you're aiming to build your lineup's cheapest vehicle on a rapid development timescale.

Uh,here in Ohio there is this place called Lordstown,where Chevy pulled out of an already built plant not to mention leaving a hefty American workforce without a means of income.

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