The Latest Breaking News from Jim Farley

A flood of presidential trade policy announcements has kept US automakers on edge since Donald Trump returned to the White House last month.

CEO Jim Farley warns there’s a ‘global street fight’ among international automakers, and Trump is bringing ‘costs and chaos’

President Donald Trump's tariffs on steel imports this week are likely to wreak havoc on American auto manufacturing, industry leaders say

The Trump administration's tariff threats and animosity towards electronic vehicles are producing a "lot of cost and a lot of chaos" said Tuesday.

Donald Trump wants to be a business-friendly president. The main problem so far, however, is that his policies don't match that pitch. He sent the stock market into a tail-slide when he announced 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, only to delay them right before they took effect. Ford CEO…

We hear it all of the time. "The only reason that China's auto industry is so far ahead on electric vehicles is because it was so heavily subsidized by the government," critics say But that sentence is only partially true. It's certainly accurate that some Chinese automakers are state-owned, and…

Ford debuted its all-electric F-150 Lightning to considerable fanfare a few years ago, and it's sold reasonably well since then. The automaker billed it as a proper full-size truck that could do truck things, including towing big trailers. Technically, that's correct. But it's no secret that several factors work against…

The biggest winners from Trump’s proposed tariffs, Farley suggested, won’t be domestic automakers but Asian rivals that would face little additional impact.

Tariffs have been a hot topic over the past two weeks. The number one uncertainty is if those tariffs would be enacted as promised how they would affect the price of ... well, everything, including EVs. And despite all of the dancing around who would be paying for those increased prices, Ford's…