| Lee Stewart |
05-03-2020 08:41 AM |
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Originally Posted by Crush
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I heard they are no longer working with Rivian? Bummer as that is a local company with a promising platform.
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Sorry - I believe this is what you were referring to:
Rivian Won't Make Lincoln Electric SUV
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But one casualty of the need to cut costs and prioritize is the news that Ford is no longer partnering with Rivian to make an electric SUV for Lincoln. The Lincoln EV will continue development but it will use Ford's own electric vehicle architecture instead of the Rivian skateboard platform.
Ford had invested more than half a million dollars in Rivian and was full of praise for the electric carmaker's engineering, and also planned to contract the manufacturing of the Lincoln crossover to Rivian to be built at its plant in Normal, Illinois. Lincoln says it continues to partner with Rivian and will work on an alternative vehicle based on Rivian's skateboard platform sometime in the future.
Ford does not have a timeframe for making the electric Lincoln crossover itself. It posts that, "We continue to review and adjust our business and product plans—as all prudent businesses do. As we moved through the development cycle, we determined that it would be better to pivot from the Rivian skateboard platform and focus our development efforts on Lincoln's own fully electric vehicle."
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news...cid=spartandhp |
