Ford Motor Co. plans to cut 3,800 jobs in Europe, a move the Dearborn automaker announced Tuesday as part of a broader effort to revitalize its Europe business amid "rapidly changing market conditions" and an increasingly competitive electric-vehicle market.
The company plans to downsize its European engineering footprint by cutting 2,800 positions by 2025. Some 1,700 of those cuts would be in Germany, with another 1,000 in the United Kingdom and 100 in other European countries.
Ford said those planned cuts are driven by the transition to all-electric vehicles, which are less complex than internal combustion engine vehicles. The automaker will maintain about 3,400 jobs in its European engineering organization. That group will focus on vehicle design and development, as well as on connected vehicle services, according to a news release.
