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For the full year of 2024, Ford posted a net income of $5.9 billion on adjusted earnings of $10.2 billion. Its electric ...

Buoyed by notable Southern victories in 2024, the United Auto Workers Union is on a quest to organize the electric vehicle ...

Battery factories are popping up across North America. Here's where they are and how the Inflation Reduction Act influenced ...

Ford doesn't think battery-electric powertrains in its full-size trucks and SUVs make sense moving forward.CEO Jim Farley ...

Speaking during the earnings call, Ford CEO Jim Farley said hybrid trucks are a key growth area and give the automaker ...

CEO Farley says extended-range EVs work better for large cars and trucks; Tariffs on Mexico and Canada are okay for Ford if ...

"For larger retail, electric utilities, the economics are unresolvable," Farley said in the earnings call, according to InsideEVs, referring to big EV SUVs and pickup trucks. "The ...

Jim Farley was also critical of large EVs in general, saying they have "unresolvable" problems due to weight and high battery ...

Honda is making a $5.4 billion bet in Ohio on the EV business between its joint-venture battery plant with LG Energy Solution ...

Ford is the first major automaker to report earnings since Trump signed an executive order stating that the U.S. would impose ...