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Ford cutting F-150 Lightning production workforce by two-thirds

Teslarati

Ford is cutting its F-150 Lightning production workforce by two-thirds as the company continues to try and ramp manufacturing of electric vehicles and work toward profitability. This amounts to 700 production employees. These reductions in staffing will not result in job losses, a Ford spokesperson told the publication.

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Ford Rumored to Dump Parking Assist Moving Forward

The Truth About Cars

Ford is said to be in early stages of dumping parking assistance features on future models because drivers aren’t using the feature enough. However, the computer-guided parallel parking feature is supposedly not going to be appearing in future models as a way to help the automaker cut production costs. Image: Ford Motor Co.]

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Ford preps for its second electric truck, Project T3, at future BlueOval City EV mega-campus

Electrek

Ford revealed plans Friday for a second electric truck, codenamed Project T3, during a press conference at Ford’s $5.6 The automaker says construction is on track to begin production in 2025. billion BlueOval City EV mega-campus.

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Ford CEO predicts ‘pace of EV adoption will be slower than expected’ in the near term

Teslarati

Ford CEO Jim Farley predicted that electric vehicle (EV) adoption will be slower than expected, at least in the near term. Ford recently released its second-quarter results, revealing a substantial loss in its electric vehicle division. As noted in a report from The New York Times , Ford is now expecting to lose $4.5

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Shanghai auto show: Full schedule of 150 press conferences for exhibitors

CN EV Post

NIO will hold 2 press conferences on April 18 from 10:00-10:20 and on April 19 from 14:00-14:30. As the first major auto show after the Covid opening in China, the Shanghai auto show, which will start next week, is highly anticipated, with more than 100 press conferences by car companies and supply chain players on media days.

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Show me the money! Ford targets Tesla Model 2, MG4 and BYD Dolphin with new small electric car line-up

EV Central

Facing multi-billion dollar annual losses from its electric vehicle product roll-out, Ford has revealed it is going to build its own ground-up smaller and cheaper EVs to tackle the Tesla Model 2 and Chinese brands head-on. Ford Mustang Mach-E. 2023 Ford F-150 Lightning. 2025 Ford Explorer EV. billion ($8.4

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Detroit 3 tease finds, together with Ford F-150

Baua Electric

Within the conference middle, Ford additionally plans to sing their own praises its just lately unveiled Mustang GTD and off-road-focused Mustang Mach-E Rally. Ford and Tesla will do business in rides on an out of doors side road path. Neither Cadillac nor GMC has stated what they plan to expose on the display.

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