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Ford Racing's Mustang Cobra Jet 2200 just ran a quarter mile in 6.87 seconds at 221 mph at an NHRA event in Charlotte, setting a new world record for an EV.

"This may lead to an unexpected downshift into a lower gear while the vehicle is in motion," a Ford spokesperson told CBC News in an emailed statement.

I'm honored to have been a part of leading Ford during an unprecedented period of technology and market disruption. I believe Ford now has a winning technology strategy and plan.

"First of all, the Chinese have huge direct support for their auto companies. They have enough capacity in China to cover all the manufacturing, all the vehicle sales in the United States."

Ford's F-Series has been the best-selling truck in America for 49 years and the best-selling vehicle of any kind for 44 years, with unit sales topping 800,000 last year.

"Chinese cars may be growing rapidly in popularity, but UK readership has yet to catch up," said David Struzzi, communications lead at Taboola. "Brands like Mercedes-Benz and Ford are cemented into people's cultural imagination - which is why they earn more reader interest than newer Chinese cars."

"Ford no longer plans to produce select larger electric vehicles where the business case has eroded due to lower-than-expected demand, high costs and regulatory changes," Ford said inthe release. The company also plans tostop the production of electric commercial vans it had planned to release in the US and Europe. Instead, it's boosting its hybrid car pipeline. "By 2030, about 50% of Ford's global volume will be hybrids, extended-range EVs and electric vehicles, versus 17% today," the company added.

Instead of planning to make enough electric vehicles to account for 40 percent of global sales by 2030-as it pledged just four years ago- Ford says it will focus on a broader range of hybrids, extended-range electrics, and battery-electric models, which executives now say will account for 50 percent of sales by the end of the decade. The automaker will make hybrid versions of almost every vehicle in its lineup, the company says.

Ford announced a series of changes to its gas- and electric-powered vehicle business aimed at dramatically increasing hybrid vehicle production in the face of slowing EV sales. The automaker also introducing some new products as part of this plan, including an extended-range EV version of its F-series truck and battery storage systems to meet growing demand from AI data center construction.

Four years ago, Ford and South Korean battery maker SK On struck a deal to form a joint venture and spend $11.4 billion to build factories in Tennessee and Kentucky that would produce batteries for the next generation of electric F-Series trucks. The factories live on; the joint venture will not. SK On, a subsidiary of SK Innovation, said Thursday it reached an agreement with Ford to end the joint venture.

The latest one, regarding the plug-in hybrid Ford Escape and Lincoln Corsair crossovers, is a little more special, though. That's because over 20,000 of them are being recalled in the United States for the second time because the first temporary fix didn't turn out great, so the cars' high-voltage batteries could still catch fire. Worst of all, this second recall still doesn't provide a fix, so owners are left with a huge conundrum.

The analysis examined stock performance six months before and after CEO appointments, adjusted against S&P 500 performance during the same period. Jim Farley, who took over as Ford's CEO on October 1, 2020, saw the company's average stock price jump from $6.41 to $10.22 in the six months after his appointment. This 59.6% increase came during a period when the S&P 500 fell by 18%, resulting in a market-adjusted performance of 77%.

Since announcing the policy, Ford has sent some employees emails telling them that they are not badging in enough and warning that they could face termination if they do not improve their attendance, three current and former Ford employees told Business Insider. Two said they had received these emails despite complying with updated office attendance policies and having previous work-from-home arrangements signed off by their managers.

So apparently, legacy automaker Ford (F) took a look at all the problems it is currently facing, from a supplier that suffered a major fire to tariff problems and economic concerns from potential buyers, and decided the way to fix this was to get more people in the office. That could be an oversimplification, but Ford is reportedly doubling down on this plan, threatening workers with firing if they are not in more.

On Thursday morning, screens at Ford offices displayed a picture of CEO Jim Farley with a slashed circle over his face and the words "F**k RTO" emblazoned above. Social media sites started sharing the pictures, IT staff reset the screens shortly afterwards, and now the hunt is on for the mystery protester. "We're aware of an inappropriate use of Ford's IT technology and we're investigating it," Dave Tovar, Ford spokesman, told the Detroit Free Press.

The hands-on management practice is called "gemba," which Farley said he "fell in love with at Toyota," where he started his automotive career. Gemba stems from the Japanese phrase "genchi genbutsu," meaning "go and see with your own eyes," Farley said. The concept refers roughly to the real place where real work is done on real things, as opposed to a plan or model of production.