Ford raising investment in their new EV line *FORD TO INVEST $5 BILLION IN EV PUSH, UP FROM $3 BILLION PRIOR *FORD TO MANUFACTURE $30,000 MIDSIZE EV PICKUP STARTING IN 2027 *FORD PLANS $5B EV INVESTMENT WITH FOCUS ON LOW-COST MODELS
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Ford is a bit late to the Show. China will own world markets.
aug 11, 2025, 2:43 pm • 3 0 • view
China sucks at marketing. Name a brand of theirs with juice…
aug 11, 2025, 5:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Excited as a share holder and hopefully future EV pickup driver
aug 11, 2025, 5:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Good for them. What the US consumer wants is new models. Can we get a new car, not a truck, with a cool design? Whatever happened to fun cars?
aug 11, 2025, 6:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Livestream is touting - multiple-stream assembly instead of one linear assembly line - unicasting of major components - LFP batteries
aug 11, 2025, 2:50 pm • 26 0 • view
New assembly process: - half of the components - 2/3rds fewer welds - 4k ft less wiring "If we can pull this off, you will never put an instrument panel or a seat through a door again" "This way of assembling a vehicle is the first time anyone in the world has done this"
aug 11, 2025, 2:52 pm • 45 2 • view
"EVs are the best product by far for the customers we're going after"
aug 11, 2025, 2:53 pm • 54 1 • view
Wild how this could have been a musk presentation 6 years ago. unicasting, wiring harness reudction, skateboards, fewer components.
aug 11, 2025, 2:56 pm • 9 0 • view
UAW being there is where this diverges haha
aug 11, 2025, 2:58 pm • 8 0 • view
They're playing catch up and we are supposed to celebrate them? 🥳
aug 11, 2025, 2:53 pm • 0 0 • view
i would love a Branco EV
aug 11, 2025, 2:35 pm • 6 0 • view
Farley seems much more aware of how US carmakers are being passed by the Chinese than the GM or Stellantis CEOs
aug 11, 2025, 2:40 pm • 5 0 • view
yes he's hyper-focused on it
aug 11, 2025, 2:41 pm • 2 0 • view
And built in KY :)
aug 11, 2025, 2:41 pm • 2 0 • view
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aug 11, 2025, 2:37 pm • 16 5 • view
$30,000 EV pickup
aug 11, 2025, 2:32 pm • 7 0 • view
Slate is promising an even more aggressive price point!
aug 11, 2025, 2:34 pm • 10 0 • view
it would be cool but i have no idea how they hit that target when the government revokes the tax incentives
aug 11, 2025, 2:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Don’t need them for $30k vehicles
aug 11, 2025, 5:11 pm • 0 0 • view
If both companies pull this off Tesla is likely dead.
aug 11, 2025, 3:08 pm • 3 0 • view
Inshallah
aug 11, 2025, 3:08 pm • 7 0 • view
just ran into a guy in northern NM yesterday who said he’s been snagging a bunch of Chevy EV trucks off of fleets for like $50k, about 5000 miles on em. we’re entering the Rad Zone
aug 11, 2025, 2:36 pm • 9 0 • view
Can I buy one from him?
aug 12, 2025, 11:31 am • 1 0 • view
Wow this is a huge turn of direction, they finally read the room and realized they had to do something or get pushed out of the industry
aug 11, 2025, 6:00 pm • 1 0 • view
why aren't they, or rather have they tried to do a 51/49 JV in the USMCA region with one of the ~200 Chinese EV companies?
aug 11, 2025, 2:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Did they clear this with POTUS?
aug 11, 2025, 2:32 pm • 0 0 • view
i would buy a 30k EV ranger
aug 11, 2025, 2:32 pm • 9 0 • view
Perhaps they smell Tesla blood in the water? Also, how do they feel this will play out with the current admin? 👀 curious your thoughts on that…
aug 12, 2025, 12:30 am • 0 0 • view
i’m listening george
aug 11, 2025, 6:17 pm • 1 0 • view
Watching their livestream… Jim Farley is making *huge* promises here
aug 11, 2025, 2:33 pm • 13 1 • view
He swings for the fences. And is on Bsky! @jimfarley.bsky.social
aug 11, 2025, 2:34 pm • 9 0 • view
Can't wait for them to get sanctioned by the white house for this or something ridiculous
aug 11, 2025, 2:55 pm • 4 0 • view
As someone who is, I repeatedly confess, largely a not-knower about all this, it's wild to have seen the "companies are walking back their EV plans" takes in the past year when it looked like the ERA incentives might endure, and now flipping to this amidst the... current policy situation
aug 11, 2025, 3:05 pm • 2 0 • view
Farley is not dumb. And GM has been going full steam on EVs too, albeit from a completely different approach.
aug 11, 2025, 3:08 pm • 7 0 • view
I suppose the explanation is probably something along the lines of, even the reactionary policy backlash can't stop the industry from noticing the onrushing China freight train
aug 11, 2025, 3:10 pm • 6 0 • view