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Ford CEO Jim Farley raised eyebrows when he revealed he drives a Xiaomi SUZ7 Ev, made in China, as opposed to a vehicle from his own company.

In an interview on Robert Llewellyn’s Fully Charged Show, which focuses on electric vehicles, Farley admitted he had been driving his new wheels for a few months and, “I don’t want to give it up.”

He shared, “I don’t like talking about the competition so much, but I drive the Xiaomi…We flew one from Shanghai to Chicago.”

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Farley’s remarks prompted a plethora of irked responses online as (mostly former) potential customers questioned why they should buy from Ford if the company’s own CEO doesn’t even prize their cars over others.

A variety of internet users theorized that Farley has...

CBS Mornings welcomes Jim Farley, CEO of Ford, and senior culture and national correspondent Anthony Mason to the show on Wednesday June 5. Jim Farley, the President and CEO of Ford, will discuss his leadership and the company’s focus on electric vehicles and digital innovation. Farley, who joined Ford in 2007, has held various roles […]

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San Francisco, June 23 (Ians) US automaker Ford is preparing to cut more jobs as it directs more investments towards building electric vehicles (EVs).

The fresh layoffs could be announced as soon as next week, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The company laid off about 3,000 employees in August last year.

Ford CEO Jim Farley has said that the automaker has more work to do than its competitors to get costs in line.

“Ford Motor is preparing to initiate another round of layoffs in the coming weeks, according to people familiar with the matter, the latest in a broader effort by the automaker to streamline operations and reduce costs,” the report mentioned.

Last month, Ford Motor reached an agreement with Elon Musk-run Tesla that will provide Ford electric vehicle customers access to more than 12,000 Tesla Superchargers across the US and Canada, doubling the number of fast-chargers available to Ford Ev...

San Francisco, May 26 (Ians) US automaker Ford has reached an agreement with its rival Elon Musk-run Tesla that will give Ford Ev customers access to more than 12,000 Tesla Superchargers across the US and Canada, starting early next year.

This is in addition to the over 10,000 DC fast-chargers that are already part of the ‘BlueOval Charge Network’.

“This is great news for our customers who will have unprecedented access to the largest network of fast-chargers in the US and Canada with more than 12,000 Tesla Superchargers plus over 10,000 fast-chargers already in the BlueOval Charge Network,” said Jim Farley, Ford president and CEO.

This breakthrough agreement comes as “we are ramping up production of our popular Mustang Mach-e and F-150 Lightning, and preparing to launch a series of next-generation EVs starting in 2025,” he said in a statement late on Thursday.

A Tesla-developed adapter will provide Ford F-150 Lightning, Mustang Mach-e and E-Transit...

Jim Cramer has crowed Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk as the future King of California.

Cramer, speaking Thursday on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street,” made the proclamation in light of the Golden State’s pending ban in 2035 on gas-powered vehicles — and the electric car company’s streak of dominance.

“It’s going to be a state of Teslas unless Jim Farley can get that F-150 Lighting out,” Cramer said, referring to Ford’s CEO, in the segment you can watch at the top of this post. “He thinks he can do 600,000 run rate by the end of next year.”

But Cramer then reverted back to the main point, perhaps given the fact parking a large pick-up truck is no easy task in many parts of California.

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San Francisco, Aug 23 (Ians) The US-based car maker Ford Motor has reportedly confirmed that it is laying off roughly 3,000 employees and contract workers, with the cuts primarily affecting staff in the US, Canada and India.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Ford sent an internal email to employees, saying it would begin notifying affected salaried and agency workers this week of the cuts.

About 2,000 of the targeted cuts will be salaried jobs at Dearborn, Michigan. The remaining 1,000 employees are working in contract positions with outside agencies, the company said.

The email, signed by Executive Chairman Bill Ford and Chief Executive Jim Farley, said Ford is changing the way it operates and redeploying resources as it embraces new technologies that were not previously core to its operations, such as developing advanced software for its vehicles.

The job cuts are effective September 1, a spokesman said.

Farley has said recently that Ford has too many employees,...

San Francisco, Aug 13 (Ians) After Ford CEO Jim Farley took a playful dig at Elon Musk, the tech billionaire has shared a lighthearted response to the playful pickup truck jab from him.

Farley, recently, drew a comparison between Tesla’s long-delayed Cybertruck and Ford’s plug-in pick up — F-150 Lightning, while announcing a significant investment in solar energy.

Meanwhile, replying to an account on the microblogging platform Twitter on the matter, Musk wrote: “Thanks, but I already have one.”

This week, after touting the company’s move to more sustainable sources, Farley made a quick jab at his main rival in the Ev space, whom he has praised for helping spur the industry toward electric vehicles.

“We are really on a mission at Ford to lead an electric and digital revolution for many, not few…,” he was quoted as saying.

“Take that, Elon Musk,” he added.

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San Francisco, Aug 11 (Ians) Drawing a comparison between Tesla’s long-delayed Cybertruck and Ford’s plug-in pick up — F-150 Lightning, Ford CEO Jim Farley took a dig at tech billionaire Elon Musk while announcing a major investment in a solar energy. According to The Verge, Farley spoke at a Ford plant in Michigan to announce […]...

According to Tom Brady, tackling the game of parenthood is no easy feat. The seven-time Super Bowl champion didn't sugar-coat the challenges of raising three kids during a candid interview on the Drive with Jim Farley podcast. According to Tom, "the hardest thing" about parenting is to teach his children about humility and to keep them grounded when they are growing up privileged. The 44-year-old athlete shares Benjamin, 12, and Vivian, 9, with his wife of 13 years Gisele Bündchen, and also co-parents Jack, 14, with ex Bridget Moynahan. "I look at my life, and my family, and it's so fast," he shared in the July 6...

San Francisco, Jan 28 (Ians) Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that US President Joe Biden “is treating the American public like fools” after Biden met with executives from rival car companies General Motors and Ford Motor earlier this week, Fox Business reported. Biden invited Gm CEO Mary Barra and Ford CEO Jim Farley to the […]...

San Francisco, Dec 12 (Ians) US auto major Ford is reportedly planning to increase production of the all-electric Mustang Mach E next year to triple its current capacity by 2023 to meet the “incredible demand”, as per CEO Jim Farley. According to TechCrunch, this is the first time the automaker has provided a specific outlook […]...

New Delhi, March 6 (Ians) As several carmakers bleed in the US and beyond, Tesla is profitable and according to Elon Musk, his electric car company and Ford are the only two carmakers in the US which have not gone bankrupt.

Tesla reported another profitable quarter as revenue hit $10.74 billion in the fourth quarter of 2020. In last year, Tesla achieved free cash flow of nearly $2.8 billion after spending more than $3 billion on building new factories and other expenditures.

US automaker Ford last month announced to more than double its investment in electric and autonomous vehicles to $29 billion. The automaker had previously committed to spend $11.5 billion on electrifying its vehicle lineup through 2022.

"Tesla & Ford are the only American carmakers not to have gone bankrupt out of 1000's of car startups. Prototypes are easy, production is hard & being cash flow positive is excruciating," Musk said in a tweet on Friday.

Ford CEO Jim Farley responded to his tweet,...

At a time when automakers have cut back on ad spending, Ford Motor Co. will rev its marketing engines for a unique commercial alliance with Walt Disney’s video properties.

The large U.S. advertiser intends to unveil its new line of Broncos with short films slated to be broadcast in the first commercial break of the 8 p.m. hour on Monday, July 13 on Disney’s ABC broadcast network and its ESPN and National Geographic cable outlets. The films will subsequently be made available for viewing on Hulu, the company’s ad-supported streaming service, on July 14.

Ad money from large auto companies has been harder to come by in recent weeks. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, automakers are among the marketers paring back their spending. The number of 30-second TV ads from car companies was off by as much as 56% during the weeks of May 4 and May 11, according to Kantar, a tracker of ad spending.

Billy Bob Thornton plays the gym teacher from hell who makes life a misery for porky student Jim Farley (Seann William Scott)... and then winds up courting his mom. Director Craig Gillespie slickly weaves themes of bullying teachers and the ludicrous self-help craze to end up with a blackly comic laugh-a-thon that will push a button with the wheezing fatties amongst us.

Jeanne Crain: Lighthearted movies vs. real life tragedies (photo: Madeleine Carroll and Jeanne Crain in ‘The Fan’) (See also: "Jeanne Crain: From ‘Pinky’ Inanity to ‘Margie’ Magic.") Unlike her characters in Margie, Home in Indiana, State Fair, Centennial Summer, The Fan, and Cheaper by the Dozen (and its sequel, Belles on Their Toes), or even in the more complex A Letter to Three Wives and People Will Talk, Jeanne Crain didn’t find a romantic Happy Ending in real life. In the mid-’50s, Crain accused her husband, former minor actor Paul Brooks aka Paul Brinkman, of infidelity, of living off her earnings, and of brutally beating her. The couple reportedly were never divorced because of their Catholic faith. (And at least in the ’60s, unlike the humanistic, progressive-thinking Margie, Crain was a “conservative” Republican who supported Richard Nixon.) In the early ’90s, she lost two of her...

Today, DreamWorks Studios’ Stacey Snider, Partner and Co-Chair, and Ford Motor Company’s Jim Farley, Executive Vice President, Global Marketing, Sales and Service, announced an exclusive partnership for the feature film Need For Speed, which will include significant integration of Ford products, along with extensive media promotion by Ford at the time of the film’s release on March 14, 2014. The announcement coincides with the unveiling of a one-of-a-kind Ford Mustang for the film, during Electronic Arts’ press conference at E3 Expo in Los Angeles today.

The Ford-designed and created made-for-movie Mustang will be featured prominently throughout the film and become part of the mythology of the movie. The “Need for Speed” Mustang features a custom-designed wide body, unique 22-inch alloy wheels, and larger air intakes to feed the supercharged V8 engine under its classic Mustang twin-nostril hood.

“’Need for Speed’ is rooted in Americana, and when we were casting our hero car for the film,...

DreamWorks Studios. Stacey Snider, Partner and Co-Chair, and Ford Motor Company.s Jim Farley, Executive Vice President, Global Marketing, Sales and Service, today announced an exclusive partnership for the feature film Need for Speed , which will include significant integration of Ford products, along with extensive media promotion by Ford at the time of the film's release on March 14, 2014. The announcement coincides with the unveiling of a one-of-a-kind Ford Mustang for the film, during Electronic Arts. press conference at E3 Expo in Los Angeles later today. The Ford-designed and created made-for-movie Mustang will be featured prominently throughout the film and become part of the mythology of the movie. The Need for Speed Mustang features a custom-designed wide body, unique...

It's been a few months since we last heard anything about the wonderfully titled low budget, man-in-suit monster movie Don’t Let the Riverbeast Get You!, which once again proves The Cabin in the Woods was correct about everything being better with a merman.

Synopsis:

A vicious monster has arisen from its watery lair! It's the Riverbeast, and he's threatening a peaceful New England town. Local tutor Neil Stuart has seen the beast before, but nobody believed his story, making him the town laughingstock. Neil sets out not only to prove that the Riverbeast exists but also, with the help of his beautiful pupil, scrappy tutor buddies, and a former professional athlete, to vanquish the aquatic menace!

Don't Let the Riverbeast Get You! is an all-new movie from the makers of Freaky Farley and Monsters, Marriage, and Murder in Manchvegas. It's directed by Charles Roxburgh and stars Matt Farley, Sharon Scalzo,...

HollywoodNews.com: The Leichtag Family Foundation has made a major gift that will enable the USC Shoah Foundation Institute to expand its Teacher Innovation Network, a program initiated in 2009 to advance the use of Holocaust eyewitness testimony across the curriculum to build 21st-century skills including digital literacy, critical thinking, and global awareness. “Our colleagues at partner organizations around the world are doing the vital work to train educators to teach about the Holocaust,” said Stephen D. Smith, USC Shoah Foundation Institute Executive Director.

“The Institute is building upon that work by adding a layer of training that not only equips teachers with the skills and tools to incorporate video testimony into their curricula, but also provides valuable digital literacy skills to both teachers and students. The generosity of the Leichtag Family Foundation makes possible this training for many educators over the next three years.” The cornerstone of the Teacher Innovation...

Blu-ray Release: Nov. 10 Director/Writers: Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman Starring: Keaton, Marion Mack, Jim Farley, Charles Henry Smith Studio/Run Time: Kino International, 78 mins. A true classic The irony of Buster Keaton’s The General being the first silent feature to be released in America on Blu-ray is that—despite its current status in the pantheon of film classics—it initially bombed. And not just with audiences. It was also critically reviled for its inconsistent tone and lack of plot, not to mention Keaton’s performance....

Brad Small has joined the law firm of Bloom Hergott Diemer Rosenthal & LaViolette as a partner. Small most recently was a partner at Manatt Phelps & Phillips. His list of clients includes Eva Longoria, Beverley Mitchell, Chyler Leigh, Megan Fox, Jesse Ventura, Triple H, Jim Frawley, Don Weiner, Mike Robe, Gil Cates Jr., Robert Berlinger, Cindy Chupack, Gary Randall Nick Pileggi and Aaron and Matthew Benay as well as Sander/Moses Prods. He was a member of The Hollywood Reporter's Next Generation class of 2003.