When Ford opened its Chicago plant in February 1924 on the banks of the Calumet River in the Hegewisch neighborhood on the city’s Southeast Side, it was the dawn of the automobile age and the mass ...
Tesla Inc. has a plan to fend off cheaper competition from China with a $25,000 electric car. But first it has to overhaul a 100-year-old manufacturing process pioneered by Henry Ford. The company is ...
Ford Motor Co. CEO Jim Farley announces a new electric vehicle platform and assembly system at the Louisville Assembly Plant on August 11. Less than two weeks after announcing its electric vehicle ...
Ford Motor is having a “Model T moment,” announcing plans to reinvent car manufacturing to produce a new generation of affordable electric vehicles to better compete with the likes of Tesla and ...
First released in 1908 by the Ford Motor Company, the Model T is one of the most important vehicles ever made. While it wasn't the first car to be produced on an assembly line, Ford took steps that ...
As part of its much-hyped presentation in Louisville, Kentucky that Ford President and CEO Jim Farley said would be a “Model T moment,” the Blue Oval has announced what it calls the Ford Universal EV ...
Ford announced a new EV manufacturing process and platform aimed at producing more affordable electric vehicles. Ford's new "assembly tree" process is expected to increase efficiency and reduce costs, ...
There’s no doubt that you’ll instantly recognize clips from the video below, as they’ve been used over and over for more than 100 years to illustrate the development of the assembly line. But those ...
The Model T was a revolutionary vehicle that is credited with changing how Americans made cars and drove them. This early vehicle was iconic for being mass produced in just 90 minutes thanks to Ford's ...
An out-of-towner driving past the Highland Bridge development on Ford Parkway in St. Paul today might be forgiven for wondering how the street got its name. Little evidence remains that more than ...
"American Pickers" is full of iconic classic cars uncovered by Mike Wolfe and former co-host Frank Fritz as they travel ...