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Ford Business Solutions in the city behind popular models, such as F-Series, Explorer, Transit, and Ranger

Updated On: 22 Aug 2024 | 11:56 PM IST

If there are rock stars in philanthropy, Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation, is one of them. And he's about to exit the stage. Walker, 64, has been named one of Rolling Stone's 25 People Shaping the Future and Time's 100 Most Influential People as he led one of the original American philanthropies since 2013. The foundation said Monday that he will step down from his role by the end of 2025. A search committee has been convened to find Walker's replacement, said Ford Foundation board chair Francisco Cigarroa. Walker "has guided Ford through some of the most challenging moments of our time with grace, kindness, and empathy, and his tenure will be remembered as one of the most consequential periods in the institution's nearly 90-year history, Cigarroa said in a statement. A former corporate attorney and chief operating officer of the Harlem-based Abyssinian Development Corporation, Walker oversaw major investments in advocating for gender equity and disability rights

Updated On: 23 Jul 2024 | 7:09 AM IST

Under Petersen, Ford's ad slogan became 'Quality is Job One'

Updated On: 26 Apr 2024 | 9:28 AM IST

Automakers are dealing with ongoing strikes by the United Auto Workers union that has led to total economic losses of $7.7 billion through Oct. 12

Updated On: 18 Oct 2023 | 7:15 PM IST

The talks to acquire the Ford plant in Chennai started a couple of months ago and are now in an advanced stage, a report said on Wednesday

Updated On: 30 Aug 2023 | 10:56 AM IST

The automaker is cutting engineers in all three areas of its business, EVs, traditional internal combustion-engine models and commercial vehicles, said T.R. Reid, a company spokesman

Updated On: 27 Jun 2023 | 8:19 AM IST

NACS stands for North American Charging Standard (NACS) which was previously known as a Tesla charging connector. It has been developed by Tesla Inc

Updated On: 16 Jun 2023 | 4:57 PM IST

Wall Street still needs a lot of convincing. Ford projects losses from its EV unit to be $3 billion this year. Meanwhile, Tesla continues to dominate the US market and has been cutting prices

Updated On: 19 May 2023 | 8:45 PM IST

Ford Motor Co. plans to make driver-assistance features central to the next electric F-Series pickup - so much so that you might be able to take a snooze at 60 miles per hour

Updated On: 24 Mar 2023 | 9:34 PM IST

Ford Motor Co. has suspended production and halted shipments of the F-150 Lightning electric pickup after a battery caught fire during a pre-delivery quality check. Production at Ford's Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, Michigan, has been stopped until at least the end of next week. The automaker said in a statement Wednesday night it has no reason to believe electric pickups already in use by customers are affected by the battery issue. By the end of next week, we expect to conclude our investigation and apply what we learn to the truck's battery production processes, Ford spokeswoman Emma Berg said in the statement. This could take a few weeks. The fire happened at an outdoor lot nearby in Dearborn where vehicles are held for quality checks. The truck with the battery problem and two nearby vehicles were damaged by the fire, Berg said. No injuries were reported. The company believes it has identified the root cause of the battery problem, including the likely population

Updated On: 16 Feb 2023 | 9:50 AM IST

Ford Motor Co. plans to build a $3.5 billion electric vehicle battery plant about 100 miles (160 kilometers) west of Detroit that would employ about 2,500 people. The plant was revealed Monday at a meeting of the Michigan Strategic Fund, which approved a large tax incentive package for the project near the city of Marshall. It will be built on a site that's being readied for industrial development near the junction of Interstates 94 and 69. Gabby Bruno, director of economic development for Ford, said there was no lack of competition for this project. She said Michigan competed against numerous states and countries to secure the investment. Ford has scheduled press conferences later Monday to make electric vehicle announcements. About $210 million for the Ford plant came from Michigan's Strategic Outreach and Attraction Reserve Fund, known as SOAR, set up to lure industry and jobs to the state. But the total size of the incentive package wasn't clear. The SOAR Fund has received n

Updated On: 14 Feb 2023 | 6:59 AM IST

Ford Motor Co said quarterly profits fell and automaker predicted a difficult year ahead, sending its shares down after bell as investors were disappointed

Updated On: 03 Feb 2023 | 9:33 AM IST

Ford Motor Co. plans to appeal a USD 1.7 billion verdict against the automaker after a pickup truck crash that claimed the lives of a Georgia couple, a company representative said on Sunday. Jurors in Gwinnett County, just northeast of Atlanta, returned the verdict late last week in the yearslong civil case involving what the plaintiffs' lawyers called dangerously defective roofs on Ford pickup trucks, lawyer James Butler Jr. said on Sunday. Melvin and Voncile Hill were killed in April 2014 in the rollover wreck of their 2002 Ford F-250. Their children Kim and Adam Hill were the plaintiffs in the wrongful death case. While our sympathies go out to the Hill family, we do not believe the verdict is supported by the evidence, and we plan to appeal, Ford said in a statement to The Associated Press on Sunday. Butler said he was stunned by evidence in the case. I used to buy Ford trucks, Butler said on Sunday. I thought nobody would sell a truck with a roof this weak. The damn thing is

Updated On: 22 Aug 2022 | 9:20 AM IST

After effectively popularizing safer and cheaper lithium iron phosphate, or LFP, chemistry for EV batteries, China's Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. is now adding manganese to the mix

Updated On: 27 Jul 2022 | 8:37 AM IST

The Volkswagen, Mahindra & Mahindra agreement comes in less than 6 months after Mahindra brought the curtains down on all kinds of collaborations with Ford Motor Co on December 31, 2021.

Updated On: 19 May 2022 | 11:17 PM IST

The two units will have separate names but will remain under the Ford corporate umbrella.

Updated On: 02 Mar 2022 | 6:59 AM IST

In a statement on Friday, the company said it was 'exploring the possibility of using a plant in India as an export base for EV manufacturing'

Updated On: 11 Feb 2022 | 8:28 PM IST

The project will create two vast sites to produce electric vehicles and the batteries to power them, employing nearly 11,000 workers, the companies said Monday

Updated On: 28 Sep 2021 | 3:08 PM IST

Ford said it will begin notifying owners April 1 in its new recall of 2.9 mn vehicles in North America with potentially defective driver-side Takata air bags after US regulators demanded the fix

Updated On: 13 Mar 2021 | 11:27 AM IST

The carmaker said it will invest $1 billion to convert its vehicle assembly plant in Cologne, Germany, to become the US automaker's first electric vehicle facility in Europe

Updated On: 17 Feb 2021 | 4:04 PM IST