Mention a new battery electric sedan to people and watch their eyes glaze over. It could clean your house, do the laundry, and make buttermilk biscuits for breakfast, but most people would rather stick a fork in their eye than drive a sedan. But say the magic words “pickup truck” and people perk up their ears.“They don’t want to be in the Rivian or the Cybertruck space,” Tyler Slade, Nissan’s U.S. dealer board chairman, toldBefore you get all jiggly at the idea of an affordable electric pickup truck from Nissan, consider this. The company is winding down production of its full size Titan pickup, which is still a slow seller in the US market despite 20 years of trying. At the same time, Nissan is prioritizing the electrification of medium and full size SUVs.

Todd Dunn, president of UAW Local 862, the local that represents the 3,200 hourly workers at LAP, said Thursday he wasn’t aware of the specific product committed to the plant, but he said all of Ford’s North American plants will receive commitments through the contract. Dunn noted that LAP is the closest Ford plant to the BlueOval SK EV battery factories in Hardin County, Kentucky, which will supply batteries for Ford EVs. headtopics.com“They’ve measured the plant.

They’ve reviewed the plans.They know what they’re going to build now, three years from now. They’re starting to work on design and all that,” Dunn said. The EV commitment is a win for LAP, considering Ford had no plan for the Escape beyond the 2025 model year, the source said. The hope is that the “all new” EV — Ford hasn’t been any more specific about the model — is the first of several EVs that could bring the plant back to a three-shift operation for the first time since 2017, the heyday of the Escape, the source said.

Ford is aiming for an expansive set of EVs in the coming years, while the company has backed off the pace of initial plans amid uncertainty about market demand but has yet to announce a fully electric version of a crossover vehicle like the Escape. When visiting Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville in May, Ford CEO Jim Farley was vague when asked about the long-term plan for the Louisville Assembly Plant.