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President and CEO of Ford Motor Company, overseeing the automaker's product, EV, and manufacturing strategy.
Ford CEO Jim Farley says UEV cars will check their own assembly connections, after Ford set a US record of more than 150 recalls last year. The car reports straight to line workers, so the first person to hear about a bad connection now works on the line.
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Ford outsold Hyundai Motor Group by 1,195 light-duty U.S. vehicles in the third quarter and kept the No. 3 spot. Ford links its lower volume to retiring the Escape and Corsair, and that drop is about 58% of the 62,000 vehicles its lead shrank over the year.
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Ford CEO Jim Farley says Europe is too late to stop Chinese carmakers, which sold one in seven Western European battery EVs in early 2026. He wants Washington to take its time before letting them sell in the US.
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Ford and JPMorgan aim to put up to $2 billion into Michigan's suppliers over ten years, split between Ford contracts and bank financing. Both halves are ceilings aimed at order books, while the partners' own report finds most apprentice starters are not in a trade five years on.
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Ford, BlackRock, Google and Carhartt's trades alliance puts U.S. skilled-trades openings at 1.7 million a year through 2035, across 124 occupations. At the report's training rate the country falls about 765,000 workers short each year, and whether the fix is recruiting or retention depends on what that rate counts.
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Removing a per-car subsidy left a finished battery plant in Ohio making cells nobody was buying, and the fastest cost its owners could cut was people. The capital had been committed years before the policy changed.
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The US transportation secretary's 8 September letter objects to Ford's 66-34 joint venture with Geely in Spain. European lawmakers are drafting a law that would make a capped Chinese stake the price of entry.
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Torsten Slok says the second China shock lands in EVs, chips and high-tech rather than cheap goods. Import barriers hold the US price line; they do nothing for what American firms earn abroad.
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The assistant runs off-the-shelf language models on Google Cloud against VIN-linked accounts. The engineering that decides whether it works is retrieval, and the in-car version is a year out.
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