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Why Ford is Spending $5 Billion to Drive Its Next-Gen EVs
Despite industry pullback, Ford invests $5B to develop next-gen EVs CEO Jim Farley calls industry-defining.
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CNBC's Michael Wayland lays out a simple but consequential fact: Ford is committing $5 billion to the next generation of electric vehicles (EVs) even as much of the auto industry retreats after multibillion-dollar writeoffs. Jim Farley calls these products industry-defining, which turns this from a product launch into an identity bet, is Ford an engineering pioneer or a capital-intensive laggard? For investors, that framing matters because it changes the decision from timing the EV cycle to judging Ford's ability to turn engineering promises into sustained margins.