Ford USA

“Ford Motor Company”, an “American multinational automaker” with its headquarters located in “Dearborn, Michigan”, has been putting cars on the road since 1903. With a $28,000 investment, “Henry Ford” and twelve other people founded Ford on June 16, 1903. Company offers premium vehicles under the “Lincoln” brand and sells cars and commercial vehicles under the “Ford” brand.

Official Website: https://www.ford.com/

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Ford USA News: media.ford.com

Ford USA Careers: https://corporate.ford.com/careers.html

Ford USA Customer Service: https://www.ford.com/support/

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“””To expedite the expansion of Ford’s passenger car operations in China, “Jiangling Ford Automobile Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.” was announced as a new 49:51 joint venture in 2022 by Ford and Jiangling Motors“”” — according to information found on “media.ford.com” under the topic “FORD AND JMC LAUNCH …” in other words.

In order to launch “Zotye Ford Automobile Co., Ltd.”, a new 50:50 joint venture that would provide Chinese consumers with a selection of reasonably priced all-electric cars, Ford and Zotye came to a final agreement in 2017.

“Changan Automobile” (a Chinese automaker) and Ford have a 50:50 joint venture called “Changan Ford Chongqing Automobile Co., Ltd.”.

The 50:50 joint venture between Ford and Mazda, AutoAlliance (Thailand) Co., Ltd. (“AAT”), owns and runs a manufacturing facility in Rayong, Thailand.

“Ford Lio Ho Motor Company Ltd. (FLH)” is a joint venture in Taiwan that assembles a range of Ford automobiles that come from Ford. The partners in FLH include the Lio Ho Group (25%) and individual stockholders (5% ownership in aggregate).

“Ford Vietnam Limited” is a joint venture consisting of “Diesel Song Cong One Member Limited Liability Company” (25 percent partner) and Ford (75% partner). A range of Ford personal and commercial vehicle models are assembled and distributed by Ford Vietnam Limited.

Ford is the first automaker in the USA to offer online access to a century’s worth of company archives — fordheritagevault.com. The top commercial vehicle brand in the USA and Europe is Ford.

The exclusive distributor of Ford automobiles in Turkey is Ford Otomotiv Sanayi Anonim Sirketi, or “Ford Otosan”, a joint venture between Ford (41%) and the “Koc Group” of Turkey (41%), as well as public investors (18%).

A joint venture involving Ford (49% shareholder) and Sollers PJSC (Sollers) (51% shareholder) is called “Ford Sollers Netherlands B.V.” (Ford Sollers). The main activity of the joint venture is the production of light commercial vehicles for Russian markets.

“Getrag Ford Transmissions GmbH (GFT)” is a joint venture between Ford and “Magna PT International GmbH”, a German firm under the ownership of “Magna Powertrain GmbH”. The partnership is 50:50.

“Ford Motor Credit Company LLC” (Ford Credit) is the company through which Ford offers financial services.

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The salient features of Ford USA’s “2023 Integrated Sustainability and Financial Report” are as follows:

By 2030, Ford anticipates that half of its sales will come from electric vehicles. In Europe, 100% of passenger cars and 100% of light commercial vehicles will be electrified by 2030 and 2035, respectively. According to an EY study, the majority of consumers who plan to purchase a car in the next two years indicate they will select an electric or hybrid vehicle, an increase of 11% from 2021 and 22% from 2020.
The F-150 Lightning was recognised as the “North AmericanTM Truck of the Year”, “Edmunds Top Rated Electric Truck for 2023”, and “2023 MotorTrend Truck of the Year”.
With a 73% market share, E-Transit was the best-selling electric van in the USA. With a 25% share of the marketplace, the E-Transit was also the best-selling EV in the 2-ton class in Europe.
With more than 150,000 units built, the “Mustang Mach-E” has emerged as the second-best-selling electric SUV in the USA. Sales in 2022 rose by 45% from the previous year.
The largest and most sophisticated auto production centre in Ford history, BlueOval City in West Tennessee, is where Ford USA broke ground in September 2022 to “construct the company’s next electric vehicle truck” and “produce cutting-edge batteries that will power Ford and Lincoln electric vehicles in the near future”.
With over 26,000 charging stations and over 84,000 outlets, the BlueOval Charge Network is still expanding. Drivers can view the readily accessible charging stations, their pricing, and their favourite charging stations by using the “FordPass App” or “SYNC 4A navigation”.
In the event of a grid outage, “Home Integration System” and “Ford’s Intelligent Backup Power” will immediately kick in. The “F-150 Lightning” with extended-range battery offers complete home electricity for up to 3 days, or as long as 10 days when cutting back, based on an average American home using 30 KWH per day.
The “Ford Maverick” hybrid truck has won several awards, including “2022 Truck of the Year at the North American”, “Best New Model and Best Compact Pickup at the KBB Best Buy Awards”, “2022 Best Truck of the Year at TFLTruck”, “2022 Truck of the Year at the Detroit Free Press”, “2022 Vehicle of the Year (Maverick Tremor) at The Detroit News”, “2022 Best Value at the Motor1“, etc.
“Ford Bronco” won several awards: “2022 Forbes Wheels Automaker of the Year at Forbes”, “2022 SUV of the Year at North American”, etc.
Ford expects to deploy 30 million over-the-air (OTA) capable vehicles by 2028, having already delivered more than 5 million.
90% of USA commercial vehicle centres are certified as EVs. Over 4,500 Authorised Technicians and “1500 EV-certified dealers” in Europe are equipped to provide “E-Transit Custom planned” service.
By the end of 2022, Ford was operating over 1,000 Mobile Service vans throughout North America and Europe.
Because of popular models like the “F-150 Lightning, Mustang Mach-E, and E-Transit”, Ford is currently the second-best electric vehicle brand in the USA.
One of the toughest and most renowned off-road events in the world, the “SCORE-International Baja 1000”, was won by a next-generation “Ranger Raptor” in the stock class. This practically faultless worldwide Ford performance was propelled by a low carbon biofuel blend that comprises over “30% biocomponents” (sourced sustainably).
For the 2022 models of the “Edge, Escape, Explorer, Corsair, Bronco Sport, Aviator, F-150 SuperCab, F-150 Crew Cab, Mustang Mach-E, and Nautilus”, Ford maintained 10 TOP SAFETY PICK/TOP SAFETY PICK+ Honours.
8 Ford vehicles—the Mustang Mach-E, Focus, Fiesta, Mondeo, Kuga, Tourneo Connect, Explorer, and Ranger—were awarded 5-stars by Euro NCAP in 2022. 57% of Ford vehicle models that were on sale in Europe in 2022 were represented by these cars.
In Australia and New Zealand, the 2022 Ford “Ranger Pickup and Everest SUV” models received 5-star “Australasian NCAP (ANCAP)” safety ratings; 83% of Ford models evaluated by ANCAP had the maximum possible 5-star rating.
On 97.8% of light-duty vehicles weighing less than 8,500 pounds, Ford Automatic Emergency Brake (AEB) is currently standard equipment. As of September 2022, 76.4% of Ford vehicles weighing between 8,501-10,000 pounds have AEB standard.
The recently released “BlueCruise 1.25” and “Lincoln ActiveGlide 1.2” allow hands-free driving on more than 130,000 miles of designated Hands-Free Blue Zones across North America.
Ford contributed $2.3 million to disaster relief activities in 2022. In order to support organisations in their relief efforts, Ford also fielded and lent “F-150 PowerBoost Hybrid”, “F-150 Lightning trucks”, and “Transit and E-Transit vans”.

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Continuing the key points of “2023 Integrated Sustainability and Financial Report” of Ford USA:

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety awarded Ford 10 “TOP SAFETY PICK” honours in 2022. Top results in the following six crash-worthiness test segments are required for the TOP SAFETY PICK honour: original side, roof strength, head restraints, driver- and passenger-side small overlap front, and moderate overlap front.
Ford has been included in the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index for the past five years by 2023. Ford is classified as “CDP A” in CDP Water and Climate in 2022. By 2023, Ford has reduced its consumption of freshwater by 76.2% since 2000. Norfolk Southern, a logistics provider, presented Ford with a “Thoroughbred Sustainability Partner Award” in the Energy Efficiency category.
Ford is the first car manufacturer to make automobile parts entirely from recycled post-consumer plastics.
Through a variety of engineering and management investment strategies, Ford production plants in China have decreased VOC emissions by about 500 metric tonnes between 2021 and 2022. Since 2017, there has been a 35.4% decrease in Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions from global activities.
For its water recycling programme, Ford Louisville Assembly Plant gets recognised with an “EPA Pollution Prevention Award”.
Ranked first for the second consecutive year in the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark within the automobile industry. Overall, out of 127 companies evaluated, Ford came in at number six.
Hands-free highway driving is made even better with new features and system enhancements offered by “Ford BlueCruise 1.25” and “Lincoln ActiveGlide 1.2”. Fall 2022 saw the release of these innovations, first on the Mustang Mach-E.
As of January 2023, 20 Ford and Lincoln nameplates had received 5-Star Overall Vehicle Scores for the 2022 model year in one or more regions from the “USA, China, Europe, Australia and New Zealand” New Car Assessment Programmes (NCAP).
Among the 15 OEMs in the industry, Ford Motor Company’s rank increased to third in the J.D. Power 2022 “Initial Quality Study (IQS)”.
The “Global Lost-Time Case Rate (GLTCR)” for Ford was 0.3. The “Global Lost-Time Case Rate (GLTCR)” is a lagging indicator commonly used in occupational health and safety management.
Ford was listed in the “Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index (GEI)” for the fifth consecutive year. The “Hispanic Association of Corporate Responsibility (HARC) – Corporate Inclusion Index” awarded Ford a 5-star “Supplier Diversity” ranking in the USA. Ford is listed in LATINA Style’s “Top 50 Best Companies for Latinas to Work” in the United States.
By the end of 2023, Ford plans to have produced 600,000 electric vehicles annually worldwide; by the end of 2026, the company hopes to have produced 2 million.
“Ford self-driving test” cars fitted with the “Argo AI Self-Driving” technology will be used to start an autonomous delivery programme with a large grocery store chain in the USA. The programme will deliver groceries and other items to clients in “Miami and Austin, TX” on the same day. Ford and “Argo AI” conducted 1,168 deliveries during the pilot test, 791 of which were in Miami and 377 in Austin.
With the present conversion of the “Ford Cologne” factory into the “Cologne Electrification Centre”, about 2,000 metric tonnes of CO2-e and over 2,600 MWh of electric energy will be saved This plant will begin producing an all-electric passenger car for European consumers in 2023, followed by another all-electric vehicle in 2024.
The “U.S. Department of Energy” has granted Ford a grant to investigate the use of CO2 as a source for polyurethane foam production. Ford plans to advance technology in order to manufacture polyurethane foams for use in car seats as well as other uses including crash safety and “noise, vibration, and harshness mitigation“.
With 9 plant-based materials used in both past and present vehicle production, Ford is a pioneer in the use of renewable materials for automotive parts. Coffee chaff, soy foam, rice hulls, wheat straw, and “cellulose derived from trees” are examples of sustainable materials.
According to worker feedback, Ford of Britain is listed as one of Glassdoor’s 50 Best Places to Work in 2022. The UK’s 15 Ford women have been named by Autocar’s Top 100 Women in the Auto Industry.
The only automaker to be named one of WEConnect International’s “Top 10 Global Champions” is Ford. The biggest employer of hourly autoworkers in the USA is Ford. Ford is the biggest automaker in the Bluegrass State and one of Kentucky’s biggest employers.
Ford will be the first USA carmaker to sign up for the “Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA)” in 2021. With this action, Ford demonstrated its dedication to ethical mineral procurement, with a special emphasis on elements like cobalt and lithium, which are crucial for EV batteries.

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