So how do we compete with that?
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/toyota-planning-ev-900-mile-200000356.html
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4gkj - true this.
I have watched innovative clever ideas and prototypes get squashed because the anointed were jealous / couldn’t find a way to take credit for the idea/invention. Ford is not a team environment where the best idea wins. They run off talent in droves.
One incompetent cray-cray LL6 (wife of a LL3) desperately wanted everyone to think she was responsible for every idea coming forth. She would daily scan sharepoint and teams sites any new document she would make a copy of, slap her name as author and then “run in” to the LL4 at his morning coffee stop and lay claim to her “new idea”. When the poor sap whose idea it actually was presented at team meeting, the LL4 would cut them off saying oh that is Kathy’s work. Cray-cray ran off all the talent while the LL4 sung her praises. She was also responsible for the toxic secretive culture that persists to this day. No one documents or shares ANY information.
“ Ford engineers are useless. They have no experience. They are not innovative.”
Ford management won’t permit their engineers to do engineering and only a select few of the anointed are allowed to “innovate”.
Toyota is going about this the right way. Leveraging their ICE and hybrids and not rushing into BEVs before they are ready. I have no doubt that Toyota by taking this approach will lead all legacy OEMs in BEV production in the next 10-12 years.
Meantime, Ford and GM will lose their shirts trying to compete with Tesla before they are ready too. That will let to bankruptcy!
Ford engineers are useless. They have no experience. They are not innovative.
Ford engineers can only do PowerPoint Presentations.
Ford will copy the technology from Toyota just like they tried to copy Tesla. The engineers will make more presentations to show the leadership that they have created new battery technology.
Ford will buy one. "Benchmark" it. Then steal the technology. That's what this company has done since Henry retired. When did Ford ever come up with an original idea since Henry? I can't think of one that wasn't stolen. Then they would spend billions on marketing to make it look like their idea.
Ford is the #MeToo of the auto industry.
LMAO @cbh+1nLj465m if only we cut the management team and their lackeys instead of those doing work.
I agree with previous poster, we can improve our engineering by cutting more people. Leaner is meaner.
Every 6 months and we see an uptick with technical capabilities when we cut.
Ford can compete by having another round of layoffs.
EVERY EV co are working towards extended range/ weight reduction/ rapid recharge EXCEPT FoMoCo under D Field. All the former Tesla engineers are failing, for those of us that weren't involuntarily separated, we are being overworked and overtaked with unrealistic expectations.
Farley and Field can not deliver, they are frauds that lack even the most basic engineering skills and it's time they are removed before it's too late.
ALL the EV programs are behind timing and over cost target.
Something not right is going on and its time to expose the liars.
I have heard of this for quite so time. The article did not mention any time frame for high level production, only a prototype. Also the article used a lot of qualifiers such as "has the potential , could, should, up to "
Also there is no mention on the lifetime of the battery. No mention how the new battery tech performs in Hot/Cold weather.
This is a fantastic battery for the lab bench.
This has all been covered in the various town halls and Gembas.
Ford already invested in their own solid state battery company a few years back. Solid Power.