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Ford Motor Company is an American automaker making cars, trucks, and SUVs, including F-Series pickups, plus a growing lineup of electric and hybrid vehicles.
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Kia sold 76,850 cars in Britain from January to August, 776 more than BMW, to take second place behind Volkswagen on SMMT figures. That lead is under a tenth of Kia's average month in Britain, close enough for the order to change by December.
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Ford CEO Jim Farley says Europe is too late to stop Chinese carmakers, which sold one in seven Western European battery EVs in early 2026. He wants Washington to take its time before letting them sell in the US.
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Ford, Carhartt, BlackRock and Google's trades alliance says training produces 55% of the 1.7 million skilled workers needed each year through 2035. Its apprenticeship data put much of the loss after recruits enroll, where employer money reaches people already in the pipeline.
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Northeastern and Consumer Reports found all 21 cars they tested sent data to third-party domains, with more than half reaching ad or analytics firms. For fleet buyers and carmakers' product teams, the brand's phone app is the first place to check.
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Regulators recalled roughly 4.3 million cars because an emergency release was coloured to disappear. Labels are the fix until 2027, when the hardware has to change.
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US-built cars fell to 28.4% of Canadian new-vehicle sales in the first half of 2026 from 35.4% a year earlier, JD Power Canada data show. Japanese and Korean builders took more than half of that lost share, and the US levy on Canadian cars and parts is expected to reach 50% in January.
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A contractor's complaint about gas exposure grounded Zoox's Atlanta test fleet in August. The remedy on the federal record is one sensor and a battery swap, in cars where an emergency room named carbon monoxide.
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Xi meets Trump on Wednesday holding a surplus built outside the American market. Two Pew readings that bear on enforcement, Canadian trust and German belief that Washington weighs other countries' interests, have each fallen by more than half.
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US automakers have already tested the tall pack, and CATL says it could license the design for local manufacture. Chinese cell output rose 44% to 1,240 GWh in the first half, and that volume needs somewhere to go.
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Whitney Stefko Dover spent months refining a Claude agent that ran her household, then rebuilt it in ChatGPT Work and called the move painless, because she had already written down how the assistant worked and what it connected to.
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Gartner's Tori Paulman says agentic AI is not carrying enough work to justify large cuts, and her team traced under 1% of more than a million 2025 layoffs to AI productivity. The rehiring bill lands on few employers.
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Copper has climbed as much as 20% this year and an EV uses 2.9 times more of it than a gas car, so the buyer interest that $4.47 gasoline created is landing on an industry that already cut its capacity.
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The AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act cleared the House on Wednesday and now goes to the Senate, where 60 senators have already co-sponsored a version. Four automakers would have to refit hardware they took out.
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The Navigating Disruptive Change sequence now runs to fifteen cases, five of them commissioned after a three-essay series on making sense of AI. The reading protocol around them matters more than the case list.
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A contributor column puts the one-year fall in Europe's junior technical hiring at 73.4%. The best-evidenced case in the same piece has Ford calling 300 experienced engineers back to fix what its cameras missed.
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GM has already stripped CarPlay and Android Auto from its newest electric models. Engadget reports gas cars follow when GM's own computing platform arrives around 2028. The replacement runs on Android Automotive.
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US EV deliveries have fallen for three straight quarters since the $7,500 credit lapsed in September 2025. Most of the nameplates dropped this year were assembled outside the US, and each quarterly decline is smaller than the last.
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The US transportation secretary's 8 September letter objects to Ford's 66-34 joint venture with Geely in Spain. European lawmakers are drafting a law that would make a capped Chinese stake the price of entry.
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The late-August order bans foreign bulk-power equipment on national security grounds and names battery storage specifically, which puts the cheap Chinese cells behind record US deployment inside a bill of materials that has to be signed before the Department of Energy explains the rules.
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The largest of Nissan's new carts hauls about 4,190 pounds and the fleet can cover for a stalled machine, but the software once sent two robots to the same spot, and forklift drivers stay on the floor as insurance while five phases remain.
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