The Man Behind The Best Selling Truck In 50 Years | Ford CEO Jim Farley
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
On the podcast today is first-time guest and Ford CEO, Jim Farley. Prior to joining Ford in 2007, Farley was group vice president and general manager of Lexus, and the group vice president responsible for all Toyota Division market planning, advertising and merchandising
Under Farley's leadership, Ford has boosted investment in electric vehicles to more than $50 billion and has set ambitious targets for scaling their production to 600,000 EVs a year by the end of 2023 and more than 2 million by the end of 2026.
Recorded over Zoom at the FC North show in Harrogate, Robert and Jim pull the curtain back and talk EV software, electric transits, battery plants, how the Prius came to be and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another rather special episode of the Fully Charged Podcast. |
| 0:08.4 | We're recording this on the stage at Fully Charged Live in Harrogate and it's the only |
| 0:14.3 | way we can do it. |
| 0:15.3 | To get it, we've got a very limited window to where we've got access to our rather remarkable |
| 0:21.6 | and very impressive guest today on the show. |
| 0:24.3 | So I'm actually on the stage here, that is a stage behind me. |
| 0:27.8 | And in front of me is a huge amount of empty seats with one or two slightly frustrated |
| 0:33.1 | members of the Fully Charged crew who just want to go and have their tea. |
| 0:37.5 | But anyway, so we're going to get on with this really quickly. |
| 0:40.2 | I'm really excited about this because this is a someone we've never had on the show |
| 0:44.0 | before. |
| 0:45.0 | A proper CEO are they major and I mean globally major automotive manufacturing company. |
| 0:51.3 | We're talking Ford, we're talking Jim Farley. |
| 0:54.4 | He's an amazing man. |
| 0:55.6 | This is an incredible conversation. |
| 0:57.2 | The stuff he talks about is really fascinating. |
| 1:00.0 | There's stuff about the F-150 which we kind of talked about quite a lot because we've got |
| 1:04.0 | one here at the show and it's getting a lot of interest. |
| 1:07.4 | A very wide ranging discussion he worked at Toyota. |
| 1:10.7 | He now works at Ford. |
| 1:12.4 | His vision for how to electrify a massive company like Ford is really impressive. |
| 1:17.4 | I think you're going to love it. |
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