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

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• webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨21⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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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• altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  It says they did that in 2023 though?

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• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They still build the only real EV truck though

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  • SlapnutsGT@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Rivian?

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Unibody

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  • erenkoylu@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    trucks for rednecks

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    • Glytch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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• 0x0@programming.dev ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• erenkoylu@lemmy.ml ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  China makes everything better & cheaper, not just cars.

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • mindlight@lemm.ee ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • erenkoylu@lemmy.ml ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • LordWiggle@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      never had this experience before.

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

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