Ford to design ‘from scratch’


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Mr Farley said future plans are to redesign Ford’s manufacturing process so vehicles have less content that assembly workers have to install. That’s been a big transition.”It is one year since Mr Farley split Ford into separate divisions to accelerate what he calls a “dual transformation” of its traditional internal-combustion business and its development of connected electric vehicles. “These huge transformations are not linear, perfectly predictable things,” Mr Farley said last week. “It’s been episodic for a lot of my career,” Mr Ford said at a press event held at Ford’s battery plant. “Jim’s got a very hard job, probably the hardest job I’ve ever seen for a CEO,” Mr Ford said in an AN interview.