Is the Ford plant in Valencia (Spain) under threat?
- After the end of production of the Ford Mondeo (2022), Galaxy /S-Max (2023), Transit Connect (2023), the Ford plant in Valencia (Spain) has been producing only the Ford Kuga SUV (C-segment) since 2024. The plant's production volume will not exceed 100,000 units in 2025, compared to 200,000 in 2020 and 350,000 in 2017.
- Furthermore, the carmaker's initial objective of producing electric vehicles at the Valence plant appears to be seriously jeopardized, following both the poor sales of the battery electric Ford Capri and Explorer and the decision to produce its future battery electric B-segment models in partnership with Renault at a Renault assembly plant in northern France. Given this situation, the future of the Ford plant in Valence is now in question.
- Kuga in a battery electric version at the Valencia site would still remain if Ford had not distanced itself from the Volkswagen group to produce new battery electric vehicles, because Ford does not seem able to design on its own a battery electric vehicle sold in mass profitably under its own brand.
- Given that the American producer has rather entered into a new strategy which consists of collaborating with Renault in addition to (or in replacement?) to Volkswagen, it would be entirely conceivable that Ford will launch new battery electric SUVs from the future Renault battery electric SUVs produced at the Spanish site of Palencia from 2028 , the year 2028 marking precisely the end of life of the Kuga which was born in 2020.