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Ford Motor Co. is a major U.S. automaker, producing cars, trucks and SUVs under the Ford and Lincoln brands, and a leading seller of vehicles in America.
Ford CEO Jim Farley says UEV cars will check their own assembly connections, after Ford set a US record of more than 150 recalls last year. The car reports straight to line workers, so the first person to hear about a bad connection now works on the line.
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SK On's Ivancsa plant, 30 of its 47.5 GWh of Hungarian capacity, won Ford's top supplier-quality award just over two years into mass production. On its own, the award is better evidence that Ford keeps its business at the plant than that new Ford orders are coming.
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Ford is funding DTE Energy's $194 million Cold Creek solar park, 100 megawatts toward its pledge to buy up to 650 megawatts of Michigan clean power. Buying through a utility green tariff ties Ford's money to a specific new plant and ties its carbon-free factory target to DTE's build schedule.
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Ford outsold Hyundai Motor Group by 1,195 light-duty U.S. vehicles in the third quarter and kept the No. 3 spot. Ford links its lower volume to retiring the Escape and Corsair, and that drop is about 58% of the 62,000 vehicles its lead shrank over the year.
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Ford and JPMorgan aim to put up to $2 billion into Michigan's suppliers over ten years, split between Ford contracts and bank financing. Both halves are ceilings aimed at order books, while the partners' own report finds most apprentice starters are not in a trade five years on.
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Ford, BlackRock, Google and Carhartt's trades alliance puts U.S. skilled-trades openings at 1.7 million a year through 2035, across 124 occupations. At the report's training rate the country falls about 765,000 workers short each year, and whether the fix is recruiting or retention depends on what that rate counts.
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Ford rigged performance ratings to cut salaried staff without announcing layoffs, a 57-year-old analyst with 28 years' service alleges in federal court. Her complaint ties a 30% bottom-rating quota to the targeting of older workers, so the review design itself becomes evidence.
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Removing a per-car subsidy left a finished battery plant in Ohio making cells nobody was buying, and the fastest cost its owners could cut was people. The capital had been committed years before the policy changed.
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Mary Barra told Fortune the trades may be more AI-proof than some office careers, and the 2.1 million-job shortage she cites was sized by a coalition of BlackRock, Carhartt, Ford and Google, all buyers of that labour.
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The USDA projects 4.52 billion bushels for 2026, about 800 pounds a head. An environmental historian traces how industrial crushing after 1910 turned the bean into the oil and lecithin most eaters never see.
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Washington's 50% duties on plywood, liquor and electrical equipment drew a matched Canadian package. The Canadian rates are still unpublished, and buyers have about 16 days.
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