Ford and Volkswagen team up on EVs, with Ford the first outside automaker to use VW's MEB platform

Automakers Ford and Volkswagen have announced a partnership today that covers a number of areas, including autonomy (via a new investment by VW in Argo AI) and collaboration on development of electric vehicles. This EV tie-up will see Ford use Volkswagen's MEB platform, which it's using as the core of its forthcoming line of consumer electric vehicles, to develop "at least one" fully electric car for the European market that's designed to be produced and sold at scale. Volkswagen's MEB is a big bet by the German automaker, meant to provide for all-electric models what the MQB platform before it did for the automaker's internal combustion engine cars.