The electric vehicle Ford Motor Co. announced Sunday at the Detroit auto show is part of an array of products that the automaker will offer as it waits to learn what type of alternative vehicles consumers will prefer, company Chairman Bill Ford Jr. told the Free Press.
Ford Motor Co. Executive Chairman Bill Ford, who also heads two organizations dedicated to regional economic development, told the Free Press on Friday that metro Detroit can begin refocusing on the future now that the scandal involving Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is ending.
Ford Motor Co. Executive Chairman Bill Ford Jr. said today that the key to spurring consumers to purchase plug-in electric vehicles when they reach the market is to develop the infrastructure necessary to support them and to make the technology easy for both dealers and consumers to understand.
Ford Motor Co. shareholders gave Ford CEO Alan Mulally resounding approval during the company's annual meeting in Wilmington, Del., Thursday, applauding his performance several times and voicing their praise of the former Boeing Co. executive, who came to Ford in late 2006 when Executive Chairman Bill Ford hired Mulally as his replacement.
