DETROIT — Ford Motor’s electrical automobile battery three way partnership with South Korea’s SK Innovation will lengthen past North America into Europe, a senior Ford govt mentioned.

In Could, Ford introduced the three way partnership with SK to supply about 60 gigawatt-hours (GWh) yearly in battery cells and array modules, beginning mid-decade, with potential to develop. The plan would come with two North American crops.

“We’re very enthusiastic about this three way partnership and it may be past simply North America,” Hau Thai-Tang, Ford’s chief product platform and operations officer, mentioned at a J.P. Morgan convention on Wednesday. “It should definitely lengthen into Europe.”

Ford’s international EV plan requires no less than 240 GWh of battery cell capability by 2030, equal to about 10 crops, Thai-Tang beforehand mentioned. Some 140 GWh of that will likely be required in North America, with the steadiness in different areas, together with Europe and China.

Additionally in Could, Ford outlined plans to spice up spending on electrification efforts by greater than a 3rd to greater than $30 billion by 2030.

On Wednesday, Thai-Tang mentioned past batteries and battery pack meeting, Ford additionally has introduced in-house the manufacturing of substances containers and motors for electrification, and was software program and semiconductor chips for doable vertical integration.

A worldwide semiconductor scarcity has triggered Ford and different automakers to curtail automobile manufacturing.