Ford quietly created its own ‘skunkworks’ team to develop low-cost electric vehicles

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Ford’s CEO said the company quietly created a skunkworks lab two years ago to develop a low-cost EV platform for its next-generation vehicles.

Ford created a “skunkworks” lab two years ago with the mission of developing affordable electric vehicles, the company’s CEO said in an earnings call Tuesday. The team is being led by Alan Clarke, who worked at Tesla for 12 years before joining Ford as executive director of advanced EV development, according to TechCrunch. Ford, like other global automakers, is scrambling to perfect the formula for profitable electric vehicles.

AMP founder Anil Paryani now holds the title of executive director of engineering at Ford and overlapped with Clarke at Tesla for several years, the outlet reports. Clarke and his team have developed a “flexible platform that will not only deploy to several types of vehicles but will be a large installed base for software and services that we’re now seeing at Pro,” the company’s commercial services unit, Farley said.

 

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