The new Ford Explorer is good at hiding its Volkswagen origins, but there is no getting away from it. This car is like no other Ford that went before. The Explorer is based on the Volkswagen Group MEB platform which stands for “Modularer E-Antriebs Baukasten” in German. The modular car platform for electric cars was developed by the Volkswagen Group and its subsidiaries. After VW used it to build cars such as the ID.3 or ID.4 and the subsidiary brands Audi, Skoda and Cupra also made use of it, it is now Ford’s turn to employ this box of parts. The Ford Explorer is the brand’s first electric vo…