Taiwan’s Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics maker, on stated that it would construct driverless electrical tractors for California-based Monarch Tractor at its Lordstown, Ohio facility beginning 2023.
The announcement comes as heavy equipment producers, together with Deere & Co. and Georgia-based AGCO, set their sights on the electrical car market because the U.S. agriculture trade shifts to sensible farming.
“This partnership displays Foxconn’s rising middle of gravity for autonomous electrical car manufacturing and the potential that may emerge from forward-thinking collaborations,” Younger Liu, chairman of Hon Hai Know-how Group, as Foxconn is formally identified, stated in a press release.
The settlement with Monarch Tractor is the primary manufacturing contract Foxconn, finest identified for assembling Apple Inc’s iPhone, has entered since buying the Ohio facility that was previously a Basic Motors Meeting plant final yr.
