Ford to build light utility vehicle factory in Romania Ford has announced it will invest $300 million in the production of a new light commercial vehicle at its Romanian assembly plant in Craiova, with production scheduled to start in 2023. An all-electric version of this commercial vehicle model will debut in 2024. With the investment of the equivalent of 249 million euros, Craiova would be Ford’s third location in Europe where fully electric vehicles come off the production line – alongside Cologne in Germany and Kocaeli in Turkey. In Craiova, Ford currently builds the two small SUV models EcoSport and Puma. However, the production of a light commercial vehicle in the plant is not completely unknown: until 2011, the Transit Connect panel van was also built there.