I first thought Ford CEO Jim Farley was briefing me on a new car. It turned out to be something altogether more ambitious: a completely new way to make a car. Or, more precisely, electric vehicles.
“We build the whole middle, front, and rear separately—and then, at the end, we put them together,” says Farley. “No one’s ever built a car that way.”
That approach stands in stark contrast to the usual way cars are made: pieced together bit by bit on a linear production line, one at a time, with engineers contorting themselves into tight spaces workstation after workstation.
Splitting the EV into three complete parts is potentially game-changing in terms
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