Ford Chairman & CEO Jim Farley Wakes After Decade-long Nap, Shocked By China's EVs - CleanTechnica

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• webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ov my that damage control speech from Ford the article was forced to include does not work in the direction they hope it does.

  There is actual fear to be perceived as Incompetent in there.

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  • brlemworld@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It was a quote from them…

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    • Juice@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What’s this thing where when you need to italicize something that is already italicized, you change it to a sans-serif font? Looks bad

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  • Juice@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What’s this thing where when you need to italicize something that is already italicized, you change it to a sans-serif font? Looks bad

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    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh so that is why my eyes burn, i thought it was purely the content.

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• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  An assessment of the global electric vehicle market and Ford merited one lukewarm, brief sentence. At the time, Farley was the Executive Vice President and President of Global Markets. If that sounds like a job that would require paying close attention to China’s reality and increasing competitiveness, it is. If that sounds like a job that should understand disruptive innovation’s death knell for firms like Ford, it is. If that sounds like a job that should have been creating strategy to deal with the reality of China’s emerging electric vehicle juggernaut, it is.

  Auto industry mismanagement is redundant.

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• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They still build the only real EV truck though

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  • SlapnutsGT@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Rivian?

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Unibody

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  • erenkoylu@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    trucks for rednecks

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    • Glytch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’ve never set foot outside of a city or had any contact with the people who produce your food, have you?

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• dantheclamman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It was crazy visiting China last year. The EVs that everyday people are driving feel so polished and futuristic in many ways.

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  • stellargmite@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I did also and was astounded. More EV brands and retail stores for them than for mobile phones and gadgets in the malls. I counted 14 brands in one mall. Like EVs are a fashion accessory. And I saw car designs for sale and on the steet that looked like what we usually see only as early concept art. not high tier of market either. It is an ultra-competitive race to the bottom , There must be several new factories and brands opening every week, and maybe the same or more shutting down. some of the bells and whistles being thrown in are pretty funny. Little robotic characters ala alexa for your car that sits on the dash with led face responding and moving to commands. half side doors being an LED screen for some reason (mainly to atrract potential buyers in the malls I thought) . The european, tesla and other US evs alongside were very very plain. Whether all of this is a good thing is another matter.

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    • dantheclamman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Honestly our sad EV offerings deserve to be disrupted A bunch of really sad GM Evs. They are mostly SUVs and look generic to the point it’s hard to know what to describe about them

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• AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The arrogance of seeing only established manufacturers. The self-centeredness of assuming US and European are the only markets the matter, and US is more profitable

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• Zementid@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lol, the corrections… “We didn’t sleep, we sold 5 cars!”

  They are still sleeping. The petrol corruption runs so deep, it will the downfall of the western industry.

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• mostNONheinous@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • mxcory@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Looked it up, wiki says cousin.

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    • mostNONheinous@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh shit, good call. It’s been awhile since I heard about Jim hear and I guess since they have a bit of a shared resemblance my brain just decided they were bros.

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He was not alone in his sleep. Volkswagen and Mercedes have been sleeping about as deep and long.

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  • superkret@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Mercedes has just increased the speed limit for their level 3 self driving system to 95km/h, which means you can legally read a book or watch a movie while the car drives on the Autobahn.

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    • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Any car going 95m/h on a German Autobahn is going to cause a lot of problems. It would be a moving accident waiting to happen.

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• 0x0@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They’re the world’s factory, of course they’ll build better and cheaper.

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• erenkoylu@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  China makes everything better & cheaper, not just cars.

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The secret is heavy subsidy, very little worker protections/safety, very little environmental protection, and slave labour.

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    • Lysergid@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That was my first thought, but is that much different for say Tesla. They get tax breaks and pay as low as they can. Don’t get me wrong I not protecting China’s way, I’m rather against both. But it would be interesting to see numbers from both sides

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    • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not just subsidies the CCP decides how much the car makers have to produce. They are overproducing and the Chinese market is saturated, there are graveyards full of unused EVs because nobody wants to buy last year’s lower range versions. And now they dumping that over production onto the rest of the world.

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  • mindlight@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s not how you spell “Xinjang camps” …

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    • erenkoylu@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      America has more prisoners than China: en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_countries_by_incarcera…

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  • LordWiggle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You mean cheaper and worse, there are little to no regulations and if there are any, inspectors are paid off as China is corrupt AF. and the cheaper part is because the general factory workers are kept extremity poor to uphold the cheap labor, next to the Uyghurs in concentration camps who are forced to work for free. There are no rights or regulations for factory workers, so no protective clothing or gear, no safe work environment, while working with extremity toxic materials as those are cheaper then the safer alternatives. Working 12 to 16 hours per day, as young as 8 years old, 6 to 7 days a week, no sick days, no holidays. There is no quality control. There is media control, so every online post of a spontaneously combusted EV, which are maaaaany, is removed.

    So you confuse quality with quantity. Yeah, it’s cheaper. But at what cost. Not just the lives of the Chinese workers, those toxins are also in the products we use.

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  • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Until the brand goes poof because China didn’t like something they did and poof; now you have a ghost car. Good luck finding repair parts for your car; and fixing the server connection required features

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    • erenkoylu@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      never had this experience before.

      But I had exactly this issue many times with Google cancelling stuff I like.

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• altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It says they did that in 2023 though?

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  • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, it does. Your point?

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