Ford Motor Company’s annual shareholders meeting hosted a very positive speech on the behalf of the company CEO, Alan Mulally. Ford CEO, Alan Mulally Mulally stated that Ford will have a “solidly” profitable result coming out of 2010 and that 2011 will bring along a “continuing improvement. If I were a Ford shareholder I’d be [...]

The future of plug-in electric cars boils down to their adoption by drivers. As we have reported, car buyers are leery about EVs and concerned about charging their vehicles in public areas.  A public charging infrastructure is virtually non-existent in the U.S. at this point. Automakers are working with utility companies, local governments, and municipalities to [...]

Unlike General Motors and Chrysler LLC, Ford Motor Company (F) has maintained a more normal outward appearance as the organization has navigated through this current economic storm. For example, Ford introduced the 2010 Ford Mustang at the 2009 Los Angeles Auto Show.  GM and Ford did not even hold press conferences. The company has launched [...]

Monday morning, Matt Lauer had an exclusive one-on-one interview with Alan Mulally during the Today Show. Now lately both Fritz Henderson and Alan Mulally have been making the rounds due to various situations both companies are in. Ford is in a little better place then GM and as such Matt Lauer was asking some pointed questions about Ford’s strategy [...]

Back in 1986, the then-new Ford Taurus energized the American mid-size sedan market. Its twin, the all-new Mercury Sable, slinked around in the large shadow cast by the bull, providing a modestly more up-market look to the higher-volume Ford. While the Mercury Sable first went out of production in 2004 (only to return in 2008), [...]

Ask most energy analysts how to cut US petroleum usage, and they’ll point to Europe, where gasoline costs more than double the price in the States. For decades, European countries have taxed gasoline heavily, and the laws of economics work: Consumption per capita is much lower. Now Ford Motor Co. chairman Bill Ford–that’s his name [...]