Posted on 07/21/2022 12:58:00 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Ford Motor Co. is planning to cut as many as 8,000 jobs from its internal combustion engine division as it seeks to channel more funding into its electric vehicle division.
The cuts, reported by Bloomberg, follow Ford CEO Jim Farley's previously announced plans to cut $3 billion in company costs by 2026, including through employee layoffs, as well as his efforts to restructure the company radically.
To that end, Farley has separated Ford into two separate units: “Ford Blue,” which focuses on traditional, industrial combustion engine vehicles, as well as the newer “Model E” division that focuses solely on EV offerings.
Though the layoffs have not yet been finalized, they are expected to focus mostly on salaried employees within the Ford Blue division and could begin as early as this summer. The bulk of the cuts is expected to come from the United States, where Ford employs some 31,000 full-time employees.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Hope they collect dust in the parking lot of dealers
Just think of all those parts in a gasoline and diesel engine. And all the man-hours that are needed to manufacture, inspect and assemble those parts.
An electric motor has a stator, a rotor, copper wiring, bearings and a case to hold it all and it can be assembled completely by machines from beginning to end............
And they are assembled by machines.........................
Additionally, EVs do not need a transmission. Mechanical transmissions have hundreds of intricately machined parts........
Good video. I think I watched it a couple of years ago too.
Not much has changed since he made this video.
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Wrong kind of battery. But this does not help with the argument that their are 15,000 more components in a gas power vehicle. Because they cheat about what they count as a component. If you take the number of components in that simple diagram(12) and multiply by 9000 then you get 108,000. That doe not include the main battery cases, tie bars, current and temp sensors.
Also Combustion engine manufacturing is automated as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdgvGex4jgo
Watch starting at the 8:30 mark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7fi4hP_y80
Also saw a video showing that even the casting process is highly automated.
So I heard; no more lawn mowers or leaf blowers or any other small engines - guess electric generators are included.
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