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Not so long ago, Ford was fully onboard with the EV revolution. CEO Jim Farley sent a letter to every Ford dealer in North America telling them to get ready to sell electric vehicles or face limits on the number of cars they could order from the factory. The dealers screamed and a few sued, but Farley remained steadfast in his belief that the future of Ford was selling battery electric vehicles.
That was then; this is now. The current US administration is vehemently opposed to electric vehicles — as well as wind and solar energy, education, science, and civil rights. Jim Farley doesn’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. Today, he has nothing to say about electric vehicles, other than that US manufacturers need government protection from those vicious Chinese companies who want to destroy the domestic auto industry by selling cars people can actually afford. Oh, the horror!
New Rules For 2026
The new thinking is evident in many ways. Ford recently supplanted Honda as the engine supplier to Red Bull, the dominant Formula One team of this decade. At the beginning of this year, Formula 1 instituted new powertrain rules that make a turbocharged V-6 engine and an electric motor equal partners in moving the cars forward.
