Skunkworks Ford is attempting to drive engineering and manufacturing forward with its announcement of the new Ford Universal EV Platform and Ford Universal EV Production System on Monday. Born of a "skunkworks" team based in California, the team created a simple, efficient, and flexible ecosystem to deliver a family of affordable, electric, and software-defined vehicles (SDVs). Ford placed a big bet on its "skunkworks" team developing a low-cost universal EV platform, but will it turn investors into million ...