Ford confirms new UEV platform won't be used in the Mach-E, casting doubt over a direct successor.
The Mach-E remains Ford’s only U.S. passenger EV, but sales are down, and the model is aging.
Ford’s EV reset may be less about updating old models and more about moving past them.
The Ford Mustang Mach-E is in a weird spot right now. It's one of the few early EVs from a legacy automaker that made buyers reconsider getting a Tesla. Since Ford pulled the plug on the F-150 Lightning, it’s been holding down Ford’s North American EV fort on its own.
Even though it didn’t even come close to dethroning its main rival, the Tesla Model Y—no EV has—the Mach-E has been fairly successful. Still, it is getting a bit long in the tooth now—it was introduced almost seven years ago—and its year-over-year U.S. sales through May fell by nearly half to less than 10,000 units. The end of the federal tax credit certainly factors in there.
