Ford is betting the future on smaller EV batteries

Ford conscionable announced its new cosmopolitan EV platform that is expected to rein successful costs for the company's wealth losing EV business. Chief among those outgo savings volition beryllium a much, overmuch smaller battery.

Ford said the caller artillery volition beryllium 15 percent smaller than that of a BYD Atto electrical crossover. BYD uses the aforesaid lithium robust phosphate (LFP) chemistry that Ford says it volition usage successful its aboriginal EVs, starting with a four-door midsized pickup successful 2027.

The BYD Atto 3 offers 2 artillery options: a 49.92 kWh battalion and a 60.48 kWh pack. That could mean Ford is looking astatine a artillery with 51 kWh capacity, smaller than first-gen the Chevy Bolt's 57 kWh p …

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