The Verge

MAY 10, 2021

Image: Ford. Ford announced the name of its upcoming electric pickup truck: the F-150 Lightning. The Ford F-150 has been the bestselling truck (and vehicle) in the US for more than 40 years, so its imminent electrification is a big deal. It’s a somewhat familiar name for Ford. It will also be live-streamed.

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The Verge

MARCH 13, 2022

Ford will soon start selling and shipping incomplete, but driveable vehicles that come without the chips that power certain non-safety features, according to a report from Automotive News. As pointed out by Automotive News , Ford’s decision comes as an attempt to move the partially-built vehicles crowding its factory lots.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

MARCH 18, 2022

Companies and governments have, shall we say, interesting relations. Just ask any Chinese tech company in recent days. But, while they're losing billions, companies in war-mongering countries like Russia have an even harder row to hoe. How can Russian companies support Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine?

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FEBRUARY 7, 2022

A spokesperson for Ford Motor recently told Reuters that it plans to suspend or cut production at eight of its facilities in the US, Canada and Mexico through this week due to chip supply constraints. A day earlier, the company said the chip shortage would result in decreased production output.

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The Verge

JULY 21, 2020

Images: Ford Performance. About a year ago, before the Mustang Mach-E broke cover , Ford’s motorsports division quietly started work on something outrageous: a one-off version of the electric vehicle that makes 1,400 horsepower. Now, the company is showing it off for the first time. was the result of some lucky timing. “We

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

It’s the biggest IPO of the year as Rivian raised nearly $12 billion — more than the $8 billion Uber raised in its 2019 IPO — and the startup’s market capitalization is higher than Ford and General Motors. Amazon has been pouring money into Rivian for several years, and recently disclosed a 20% stake in the company.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Ford will spend as much as $20 billion to reorganize its business for the electric future, according to Bloomberg. The automaker is also mulling whether to spin off some of its EV business as a special acquisition company (SPAC) in order to attract more investment. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 25, 2022

Some recent acquisition news for Seattle-area tech companies: Kirkland, Wash.-based based enterprise resource planning software company Acumatica bought IBS Imperium , a property management application from Integrated Business Systems that was built on Acumatica’s cloud platform and available on its marketplace. Read more.

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The Verge

MAY 26, 2021

Image: Ford. Ford will spend $30 billion on electric vehicles by 2025, and says 40 percent of its global fleet will be all-electric by 2030. The company is working on an all-electric versions of its Explorer and Lincoln Aviator SUVs. Ford is also creating a standalone business for its commercial vehicle division called Ford Pro.

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GeekWire

MAY 15, 2023

Ken Washington, who oversaw the Amazon Astro home robot as the company’s vice president of consumer robotics, is leaving the company after less than two years. ” Prior to joining Amazon, Washington was for Ford Motor Co. as the automaker expanded into autonomous technology.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Ford is the latest automaker to turn its vehicle operating systems over to Google. The Dearborn, Michigan-based company said it will use Google’s Android to power the infotainment systems in “millions” of its cars starting in 2023. But iPhone people, don’t despair: Ford’s system will still be compatible with Apple CarPlay.

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The Verge

MAY 9, 2021

Commercials for the Audi E-tron, Ford Mustang Mach-E, Volkswagen ID 4, and Lucid Air all aired within the first 30 minutes of SNL. Lucid Motors, a company founded by Peter Rawlinson, the former head engineer of the Tesla Model S who frequently clashes with Musk , teased its commercial earlier in the week. non-Tesla EVs.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2021

Hot off the heels of the public debut of the F-150 Lightning pickup truck , Ford announced that it will form a joint venture with South Korea’s SK Innovation to manufacture batteries for electric vehicles at scale. Ford has a preexisting relationship with SK Innovation, which supplies batteries for its Mustang Mach-E SUVs.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Ford broke ground on a new manufacturing plant outside of Dearborn, Michigan, where it will build an electric version of its extremely popular pickup truck, the F-150. That release date means the F-150 EV will likely hit the road after electric pickups from a number of Ford’s rivals. The company has said it will spend $11.5

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The Verge

MAY 24, 2021

Image: Ford. Ford has revealed a version of its new F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck aimed specifically at commercial customers. Much like the retail version of the electric F-150 , the Lightning Pro stands to win Ford a lot of business as long as the company executes well when the truck starts shipping in 2022.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 4, 2020

Jim Farley (Photo via Ford). Ford Motor Company is getting a new CEO. They’re well-financed and voracious companies.”. trillion market value dwarfs Ford’s $26 billion value — may not appear to be a direct rival to the car manufacturers. Ford also is a backer of Rivian ). billion late last year.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Ford and South Korean battery manufacturer SK Innovation will spend a combined $11.4 The new facilities represent the first new plants built by Ford, completely from scratch, in over 50 years. This is a new Ford,” Farley told The Verge. This is a new Ford,” Farley told The Verge. This is show, not tell time.”.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2021

Image: Ford. Ford has revealed its first all-electric F-150 , the Lightning, and on paper it looks like a really compelling truck. But Ford’s not alone in developing an electric pickup truck — far from it, in fact. And General Motors’ first electric pickup will be the gaudy Hummer, which the company has revived after a decade.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Many companies have had to scale back car production due to a global computer chip shortage, but CNBC is reporting that the shortages are finally hitting America’s most popular vehicle : the Ford F-150. This isn’t the first time microchip shortages have hit the car industry, or even Ford.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

Images: Ford. Ford has revealed the 2021 model of the F-150, and many buyers will find the newest version of the automaker’s super popular pickup truck stuffed with technology when it gets released later this year. Hands-free driving will only be available on highways that Ford has mapped.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Ford and General Motors told a federal judge they’re planning to settle a trademark battle over the term “Cruise” to describe hands-free driving. Ford announced BlueCruise as the name for its hands-free driver assist feature in April. The two sides will report back within 60 days if they’re unable to come to an agreement.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2021

Images: Ford. Ford has revealed the F-150 Lightning, an all-electric version of its popular pickup truck due out in 2022, and it’s aggressively priced for an EV. That puts it right on par, price-wise, with Tesla’s Cybertruck and far below more luxury-minded options like Rivian’s R1T or General Motors’ exorbitant GMC Hummer pickup.

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The Verge

APRIL 6, 2022

Ford and Chevrolet are reportedly halting production on their respective flagship performance cars, the Mustang and the Camaro, for a week thanks to supply chain issues ( via Jalopnik ). Some Cadillacs are also affected. Photo by Clara Margais/picture alliance via Getty Images. The chip shortage isn’t going to go away overnight.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The savings are just too big to ignore for a ton of companies,” says David Heinemeier Hansson, the Danish developer of Ruby on Rails and co-owner and CTO of 37signals, which completed a six-month total exit from the cloud last June. John Musser, senior director of engineering for Ford Pro at Ford Motor Co.,

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GeekWire

JULY 23, 2021

Amazon made the investment through its Climate Pledge Fund , which is aimed at backing companies that accelerate Amazon’s pledge to be net zero carbon across its businesses by 2040. The company previously backed Rivian in 2019 in rounds of $700 million and $1.3 The latest round was also led by D1 Capital Partners, Ford Motor Co.

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The Verge

JULY 26, 2021

Electric vehicle startup Lucid Motors is now a publicly traded company , following the completion of a merger where it fetched an eye-watering $4.5 Unlike many of those other startups, though, Lucid Motors has been around for a while. It was founded in 2007 as a battery company called Atieva. billion in fresh capital.

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The Verge

MARCH 23, 2022

Stellantis, the parent company of Dodge, Jeep, and Chrysler, plans to build an electric vehicle battery factory in the US. Stellantis, which has been slower to embrace EVs than Ford and General Motors, has said it is targeting the sale of 5 million EVs by 2030. © 2022 Stellantis. A second plant will be built somewhere in the US.

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The Verge

APRIL 14, 2021

Image: Ford. Ford has a name for its “hands-free” advanced driver assist system (ADAS): BlueCruise. The company said it would begin pushing the feature via an over-the-air software update to select 2021 Ford F-150 and 2021 Mustang Mach-E owners later this year. Yes, Ford is even branding the highway.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 27, 2021

Rivian, the electric vehicle maker that has attracted huge funding from Amazon and others, announced Friday that it plans to go public, and one report values the company at roughly $80 billion. In July, the tech giant was among lead investors , along with Ford Motor Co., (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle). billion in 2019.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Ford and Walmart are teaming to launch a robo-delivery service in three US cities, using autonomous test vehicles equipped with sensors and software developed by Argo AI. The companies plan on kicking off “integration testing” for the delivery service this year, with plans to expand the geographic areas over time. billion valuation.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

It didn’t cite estimates for range, or mention battery size, or the power output of the electric motors. The illuminated grille the company has been toying with on some other concepts and production vehicles finally doesn’t look so out of place. [ It will be all-wheel drive, though, and it will have a low and high gear.

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Trends in the Living Networks

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Trials of a four day work week in Iceland have proven to be an “overwhelming success” The Japanese government this year recommended that companies allow their employees to work four days a week. It was 1936 when Ford Motor Company made the step to a five-day work week, eventually taking the rest of the world with it.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

It’s been almost a year since we’ve last heard from Harley-Davidson’s nascent electric bike project, but based on what the company is announcing today, it may have been well worth the wait. And the motorcycle manufacturer is also spinning out its e-bike division as a separate company called Serial 1 Cycle.

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The Verge

APRIL 6, 2021

General Motors just confirmed it’s making an all-electric version of the Chevy Silverado pickup truck, the company’s bestselling vehicle. Ford’s electric pickup is due out next year. Before that, GM reportedly wanted an exclusive deal with Rivian , which left room for Ford to partner up with that EV startup.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Consumer Reports is swapping the Tesla Model 3 for the Ford Mustang Mach-E as its new top electric vehicle pick for 2022. The designation is sure to give Ford a morale boost as it seeks to outpace Tesla in the race to become the number one EV manufacturer in the US. The Ford is also quieter and rides better.

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GeekWire

JULY 28, 2021

A Spin scooter on Seattle’s Burke-Gilman Trail, which the company’s technology mistakes for a sidewalk. The company, based in San Francisco, is a unit of Ford Motor Co.’s GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop). This happened during multiple attempts to ride different Spin scooters down the trail this week.

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The Verge

MAY 25, 2021

Image: Lordstown Motors. Electric vehicle startups have raised an absurd amount of money in the last year by merging with special purpose acquisition companies , or SPACs. Ohio-based Lordstown Motors raised nearly $700 million when it went public late last year and has backing from America’s largest automaker, General Motors.

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