Ford Motor News Updates

Canadian union Unifor is seeking higher pay and retirement benefits as well as better job security from Ford in contract negotiations.

Ford is the latest old-economy manufacturing company to be swept up in the hype around AI after the automaker’s pivot toward energy storage sent its stock surging. 

Ford stock surged May 13 after Morgan Stanley issued a bullish call that the automaker’s energy storage business could soon make a deal with hyperscalers. 

Ford boosted its full-year profit outlook on strong demand for high-margin pickups and SUVs while warning that a rise in commodity costs will weigh on earnings. 

Ford denied a news report that it has held talks with Geely Automobile Holdings about bringing Chinese car technology to the U.S. market.

Ford's top executive says allowing Chinese automakers to sell their cars in the U.S. would be “devastating” to American manufacturing.

Ford is planning to launch five new models priced under $40,000 by the end of the decade in a gambit to offer more affordable vehicles as the average cost of new cars tops $50,000 in the U.S.

Ford selected Precision Vehicle Solutions to manage finished vehicle logistics at its Kentucky Truck Plant and Louisville Assembly Plant, one of Ford's highest-volume outbound networks.

Ford Motor Co. will take $19.5 billion in charges tied to a sweeping overhaul of its electric vehicle business after struggling for years to make it profitable.

The last congressional hearing that featured the top executives of Ford, GM and Stellantis (formerly Chrysler) was in late 2008, when financial and automotive crises were hitting the economy.