Quote Originally Posted by adrianw View Post
He's not the Ford CEO, he's head of electric vehicles in Europe according to the article. He can't switch from right to left hand drive quickly, there would be massive supply chain issues, steering system, interior, all external lighting, he would be looking at 26 weeks minimum.
It wouldn't be vehicles he's in charge of, as his problem is selling as much EVs as he can. He was expressing the idea that they don't have £15K/vehicle to waste in fines, and would instead refrain from supplying ICEs so as not to take EVs sales to represent less than 22% of the total of their sales. What they do with their other production chains depends on how long they think it will take them to achieve the 22%. If they know they can achieve that quickly, they'll just reduce those chains' activities. If it takes longer they will convert them to suit other markets (Australia, Japan as well as NZ maybe to start with as conversion would be quicker, but nothing is off the table I suppose).