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Ford unveiled the Fathom, a midsize electric pickup starting at $28,350 (plus $1,595 destination for a total of about $29,945), the first vehicle built on Ford's Universal Electric Vehicle platform; preorders begin in early 2027 with deliveries later that year, as Ford pursues profitability on the UEV and aims to compete on price amid slowing EV adoption and waning incentives.
Ford presses ahead with its secretive Universal Electric Vehicle platform, betting on a North America–focused lineup of affordable EVs to reach profitability by 2029, even as the market slows, restructuring charges mount and EV chief Doug Field departs; the company is building out the Long Beach Electric Vehicle Development Center and pursuing megacasting and a leaner design to cut costs and outpace Chinese competitors, starting with a roughly $30,000 midsize pickup next year and a broader UEV family.
Ford unveils its Universal Electric Vehicle (UEV) platform, aiming to dramatically cut EV complexity by trimming to five master control modules for its upcoming pickup—far fewer than the F-150 Lightning’s 70 and Rivian’s seven—while embracing multipurpose components and in-house integration to reduce cost and weight, signaling a strategic push to compete with Rivian and contend with subsidized Chinese EVs.
Ford is pursuing a $30,000 electric pickup built on a Universal Electric Vehicle platform, using a 'bounty' system to align engineering toward higher range and lower battery costs, aided by unicast/gigacasting and an inexpensive LFP battery. The truck is expected to diverge from traditional styling, with a smaller bed and edgy aerodynamics, and the article questions how this strategy will look in practice and whether it can pay off.
Ford is pivoting from costly, oversized EVs like the F-150 Lightning to a family of affordable electric vehicles built on a Universal EV Platform (UEV), led by a Silicon Valley skunkworks team. The plan focuses on efficiency and cost, using a bounty system to quantify micro-optimizations (weight, drag, etc.), adopting lighter aluminum components, cheaper lithium‑iron‑phosphate (LFP) batteries, and a zonal architecture with an integrated E‑Box to cut wiring and parts. Ford aims for a $30,000 midsize EV in 2027 and is moving toward mass production with tighter supply‑chain control, even if it means 400‑volt systems over the faster 800‑volt setups to maintain flexibility and battery compatibility.