Last month, CATL licensed its EV battery technologies to US automaker Ford Motor for the latter's battery factory in the state of Michigan.
上个月，CATL将其电动汽车电池技术授权给美国汽车制造商福特汽车，用于后者位于密歇根州的电池工厂。
It not only enables Ford to obtain various subsidies promised in the Inflation Reduction Act passed last year, but also helps CATL to avoid foreign investment security reviews to reduce some risks. "
这不仅使福特能够获得去年通过的《通胀削减法案》中承诺的各种补贴，还帮助CATL避免外国投资安全审查，以降低一些风险。"
Recently, Sam's Club's has launched a campaign "More than just delicacies" to further update while selecting a variety of international high-frequency consumer brands -- top players in each of their category, including Staub, Tom Ford and Marvis, in an effort to unlock more retail potentials.
最近，山姆会员店推出了一项“不仅仅是美味佳肴”的活动，以进一步更新，同时选择各种国际高频消费品牌——包括Staub、Tom Ford和Marvis在内的每个类别的顶级品牌，努力释放更多零售潜力。
Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd is mulling accelerated overseas expansion, as the Chinese battery giant is planning at least two locations in Mexico for a manufacturing facility to potentially supply Tesla and Ford Motor.
当代安培技术有限公司（Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd）正在考虑加快海外扩张，因为这家中国电池巨头正计划在墨西哥至少两个地点建立一个制造厂，以潜在地供应特斯拉（Tesla）和福特汽车（Ford Motor）。
Founded in 1975 and headquartered in East China's Shandong province, Linglong Tire sells its products to companies in over 180 countries and regions, including world-class automakers such as Volkswagen, General Motors and Ford.
Ford Motor Co said on Monday it will produce 50,000 ventilators over the next 100 days at a plant in Michigan in cooperation with General Electric's healthcare unit, and can then build 30,000 per month as needed to treat patients afflicted with the coronavirus.
Ford said the simplified ventilator design, which is licensed by GE Healthcare from Florida-based Airon Corp and has been cleared by the Food and Drug Administration, can meet the needs of most COVID-19 patients and relies on air pressure without the need for electricity.
On Friday, President Donald Trump said he would invoke powers under the Defense Production Act to direct manufacturers, including Ford and General Motors Co, to produce ventilators.
Ford said it plans to begin production of ventilators at a plant in Ypsilanti, Michigan, deploying 500 United Auto Workers employees.
Those workers will be stationed at a safe distance apart and will be screened for symptoms of coronavirus infection before they enter the plant, Ford officials said.
"We're using and deploying a whole host of technologies to keep workers safe," said Adrian Price, director of global manufacturing core engineering for Ford.
The safety procedures at the Ypsilanti will be adapted from work Ford and the UAW have been doing to prepare for the automaker to reopen other US factories, Price said.
Zhejiang Geely Holding group, parent company of Geely Auto, acquired Volvo from Ford in 2010.
In June, Ford Motor's joint venture with Chang'an Automobile Group was fined 162.8 million yuan for violating anti-monopoly laws.
Among them, 67 companies, including General Motors, Ford Motor, Mars, General Electric, Dell, Johnson & Johnson, Tesla and 3M, participated in the exhibition for two consecutive sessions.
In Detroit, doctors at Henry Ford Hospital performed a double-lung transplant on a person with a severe vaping-related injury, believed to be the first procedure stemming from e-cigarette use in the US.
Volkswagen AG and Ford Motor Company announced on Friday their intention to extend their global alliance to advance autonomous driving, electrification and better serve their customers.
According to Volkswagen's statement, the company will join Ford in investing in Argo AI, the US-based autonomous vehicle startup, in a deal that values the operation at more than $7 billion.
Meanwhile, Ford will use Volkswagen's electric vehicle architecture and Modular Electric Toolkit (MEB) to design and build at least one high-volume fully electric vehicle model in Europe for European customers from 2023.
Through strengthening their partnership, Volkswagen and Ford can significantly increase the number of electric cars they produce, set standards for the auto industry and put their competitors under pressure, said the German daily newspaper Handelsblatt.
NEW YORK — Ford and Volkswagen are planning to unveil details about their budding alliance to build mobility services and autonomous and electric vehicles.
They said Ford would develop larger vans and pickups while Volkswagen would develop a smaller van for crowded cities.
Ford Motor Company has announced plans to close its engine plant in Bridgend, Wales in the fall of 2020, with 1,700 jobs on the line.
Ford blamed "changing customer demand and cost" and said the United Kingdom's pending exit from the European Union was not a factor.
Stuart Rowley, president of Ford of Europe, said in a statement that creating a sustainable enterprise forced the company to make "difficult decisions".
BEIJING/CHONGQING -- China's State Administration for Market Regulation announced Wednesday that it has imposed a fine of 162.8 million yuan (about $23.6 million) on automaker Changan Ford Automobile Co Ltd for implementing vertical monopoly agreements.
Since 2013, Changan Ford has restricted the minimum vehicle resale prices for downstream dealers in Chongqing municipality, violating China's anti-monopoly law, the administration said in a statement.
In a statement posted at its website, Changan Ford said that it would "fully respect and firmly enforce the penalty.
Ford, Siemens to bring products in; technology to be exported to GhanaState-owned machine maker China National Machinery Industry Corp, known as Sinomach, signed 21 import deals with international partners worth a total $8.4 billion, including in high-end manufacturing, automobiles and information technology on Tuesday during the China International Import Expo.
Sinomach Automobile Co's strategic partner Ford Motor (China) Ltd signed a three-year contract starting from 2019 to import more than $4.5 billion worth of automobiles with Ford.
It has higher production capacity than the other five major auto-glass makers combined and serves major brands such as Ford, BMW and Toyota.
It has more capacity than the other five major auto-glass makers combined and serves major brands such as Ford, BMW and Toyota.
The internet giant, which tapped into the auto sector almost four years ago, said late on Wednesday that it will team up with Zhejiang Jingu Co Ltd, a vehicle parts supplier to the likes of General Motors, Volkswagen and Ford, to raise China's auto service level.
US automakers General Motors and Ford Motor lowered their full-year earnings forecasts due to tariffs.
At present, the company is a major partner of leading carmakers like General Motors, Ford and Chrysler.
Ford Motor Co on Wednesday suspended production of the company's F-150 pickup, the nation's best-selling vehicle for more than 35 years, because of axa0fire earlier this month at a parts factory in Eaton Rapids, Michigan.
Ford sold nearly 900,000 F-series trucks in 2017.
The Super Duty (F-250 to F-550) trucks as well as the Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator (sport-utility vehicles) receive radiator supports from this plant," he wrote in an email.
In a statement Wednesday, Ford expects the downtime to affect its second-quarter profit but maintained its full-year earnings guidance.
David Whiston, industry analyst for Morningstar Inc, said that "the magnitude of the impact (for Ford) is dependent on how many days the shutdown lasts, but even a five-day shutdown is a few hundred million dollars of pretax profit lost by my estimate".
Those SUVs and the F-Series are Ford's most profitable vehicles, so Ford can't have a long shutdown of any of them without major negative ramifications to earnings," he said.
Ford said it is working with its suppliers to offset the impact of the fire.
Alibaba described prospective customers of the first store as "middle-income earners who drive imported cars such as Volkswagen, BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Ford".
Investment not only comes from major automakers such as Daimler, BMW, Volkswagen, General Motors and Ford Motor, but also from high-tech players such as Intel, Apple and Baidu.
One was ordered by Ford Motor to use it on the exterior walls and roofs of its 159 factories around the globe.
Earlier this month, it announced a partnership with Ford Motor Co to develop intelligent vehicles, and is slated to open its Auto Vending Machine next month.
With 22 companies in 10 foreign countries, such as the United States and Germany, Wanxiang is a major partner of world-leading carmakers such as General Motors, Ford and Chrysler.
In the beauty segment, she analyzed the latest trends among Chinese consumers and brought in high-end cosmetics and wellness brands such as Tom Ford, Valmont and BKR, which used to be hard to find in China.
"In March, Novelis expanded its portfolio of automotive customers into the EV sector by adding Shanghai-based electric vehicle startup NIO to its client pool, which already included Ford, Audi, Jaguar, Land Rover, GM, BMW, Mercedes Benz, Kia, and others.
The quality of its products, Jier's professional services and the high level of expertise of its engineers have impressed Ford Motor Co of the United States so much that it is no longer relying on German suppliers.
Five years ago, Ford sent a team of more than 10 experts to China for a detailed check on Jier's products.
The Ford team was impressed and decided to place the order.
Ever since, Ford's orders for Jier products have been increasing.
Earlier this year, Ford sent only one expert to Jier to complete the deal for its ninth stamping line, an emphatic vote of confidence in the latter's prowess.
Right now, Jier is the best," said Ron Russo of Ford, after the press line was installed at Ford's Woodhaven Stamping Plant in Detroit on June 27.
The previous eight press lines are in operation at four Ford plants.
It is the first time in 20 years that Ford bought complete sets of press equipment from a country other than Germany.
Paul Wollschlager of Ford's stamping engineering team recalled how Jier delivered the seventh line despite extraordinary challenges arising from Ford's expansion at the Rouge Complex.
Four high-speed press lines, made by Jier Machine Tool Group Co, are now being used at the Detroit plant of Ford Motor Co. [Photo by Hao Zhiqiang/For China Daily]Over the last eight years, the central government has spent 9.11 billion yuan on R&D of CNC machine tools.
That would give Volkswagen a head start in the country, as the first localized electric car from its major rival GM will not hit the market until at least 2019 and Ford's first after 2020.
Visitors examine a Ford SUV at the Guangzhou auto show in November 2016.
[Li Fusheng/China Daily]Ford and its joint ventures sold nearly 94,000 cars last month in China, 11 percent more than the same month last year.
Peter Fleet, vice-president of Ford Asia Pacific, said the Chinese market is showing signs of rebounding and expects Ford's growth momentum will continue.
Of Ford's April sales, Changan Ford contributed the most, with 62,382 units sold, up 6 percent from the same month last year.
Ford's premium brand Lincoln saw the fastest growth.
Other traditional automakers on the list were General Motors Cruise LLC and Ford of the United States; Nissan, Honda and Subaru of Japan; and BMW of Germany.
Doris Xiang, vice-president of government affairs at Ford Motor China, said Shanghai and its neighboring cities are a vital base of production and supply chain for the global automobile industry.
Similarly, Chinese car manufacturer Changan Ford Automobile also turned to trains to tackle supply problems caused by the pandemic.
The company urgently rerouted the transportation of supplies with cargo trains passing by Germany's Duisburg, which took some 20 days to reach Chongqing, said Zhuang Changbo, logistics supervisor at Changan Ford Automobile.
Similarly, Chinese car manufacturer Changan Ford Automobile also turned to the train route, though in a reverse direction, to tackle its supply problems caused by the pandemic.
The company urgently rerouted the transportation of supplies with cargo trains passing by Germany's Duisburg city, which took some 20 days to reach Chongqing, said Zhuang Changbo, logistics supervisor at Changan Ford Automobile, adding, "It saved some 50 days compared to sea transportation.
Ford Motor Co said on Friday that its China sales rose 25 percent in the third quarter, the Michigan automaker's second consecutive quarterly sales increase in the world's largest auto market following almost three years of decline.
CATL, for instance, has said that it will license its technology to Ford instead of directly producing batteries.
In February, US automaker Ford Motor said it will collaborate with CATL on a new $3.5 billion battery plant for electric vehicles in Michigan.
"Lyu Xiang, a US studies expert at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that Chinese battery makers are also finding ways out, as can be seen in the Ford-CATL cooperation, where CATL will license its technology to Ford instead of directly producing batteries.
It not only enables Ford to obtain various subsidies promised in the act, but also helps CATL to avoid foreign investment security reviews to reduce some risks," Lyu said.
Recently, in order to enter the US market, CATL has decided to adopt a new cooperative construction model with Ford, in which Ford will provide funding and CATL will provide technology to circumvent the restrictions of the "Inflation Reduction Act" regulations.
Jim Farley, CEO of US carmaker Ford, said that amid the electric vehicle transformation, a new era for the auto industry is reshaping global supply chains in a significant way, and China is playing a pivotal role in that transition.
A total of 24 cosmetics brands, including international labels Tom Ford and Sisley, as well as homegrown marques Chando and Perfect Diary, will roll out new offerings during the extravaganza.
This year's show will be attended by virtually all well-known domestic and foreign auto brands showcasing their latest products, including more than 30 international automobile brands, including Mercedez-Benz, BMW, Audi, Volkswagen, Ford, Lincoln, GM, Toyota and Nissan.
Among them are several Oscar winners, including the satiric fantasy Jojo Rabbit, the biographical drama Ford v Ferrari, and World War I epic 1917.
Four new models from automakers including Volkswagen, Ford and SAIC were released during the show.
For example, e-commerce platform Tmall said it would focus on recruiting more top-notch brands this year, such as Tom Ford Beauty, which is set to launch an official flagship store on the site this year.
"Powered by Tmall's strength in big data, our new boutique gives us reach throughout China without compromising our commitment as a luxury brand," said Natsuko Watanabe, Asia-Pacific regional director at Tom Ford Beauty.
Shares of Ford, US-listed shares of Stellantis and Tesla and GM settled lower on Wednesday.
Changan, which is the Chinese partner of Ford, expects its new energy vehicle sales to reach 1.2 million in 2025.
Changan Ford has introduced six exclusive care measures for owners whose vehicles were damaged in the disaster, including free road rescue, a green channel for parts supply and a 300-yuan vehicle repair subsidy.
Ford and GM warned recently they were delaying the launch of cheaper EV models and pulling back on spending due to weaker demand and higher costs in the wake of new United Auto Worker contracts.
"Ford, another US automaker, is showcasing its Ranger pickup, new F-150 pickup, Mustang Mach-E and other models.
At last year's CIIE, the Ford Bronco SUV made its debut in China and received significant attention.
Xiang Xiaofang, vice-president of Ford China, said the company has been deeply involved in the Chinese market for nearly 30 years with its joint ventures Changan Ford and Jiangling Ford.
"In the midst of Ford's global business transformation, the Chinese market holds paramount significance and the company remains resolute in driving sustainable growth in its operations here," Xiang said.
Some other niche players have either picked up or are considering the same tactic, including Ford and Volkswagen's Czech subsidiary Skoda.
The United States carmaker Ford has opted for a wild and fun strategy in hopes of reviving its fortunes in the competitive Chinese market.
Last week, the carmaker opened its first store under the Ford Beyond program to cater to a growing number of Chinese car buyers who have taken to the outdoor lifestyle.
Located in Chongqing, a city known for hotpot and locals' love for life, the store presents Ford's iconic pickups and off-roaders including the F-150 Raptor and the China-made Ranger, and offers service packages including trip planning and vehicle modifications.
Anderson Liu, head of Ford Beyond, said the carmaker is seeing Chinese car owners' increasing passion for nature, which signals a fast rise in the off-road segment.
"But we are not here to slice the niche market; we are here to grow the market," said Liu, who is also president of Jiangling Ford Technology, a joint venture between Ford and JMC.
Liu said the carmaker is going all-out with the Ford Beyond program.
Ford Beyond will release 24 routes for nature lovers and its dealers are expected to organize 2,400 events a year.