1903: Henry Ford creates Ford Motor Co. 1904: Ford builds the Piquette Avenue Plant in the Detroit neighborhood of Milwaukee Junction, just east of Woodward Avenue. The plant was made of brick and ...
Ford Motor Co. CEO Jim Farley announces a new electric vehicle platform and assembly system at the Louisville Assembly Plant on August 11. Less than two weeks after announcing its electric vehicle ...
The Model T is known as the car that revolutionized transportation in the 20th century. The moving assembly line created by Henry Ford, the man behind America's first major automotive giant, allowed ...
Ford announced a new EV manufacturing process and platform aimed at producing more affordable electric vehicles. Ford's new "assembly tree" process is expected to increase efficiency and reduce costs, ...
When Ford opened its Chicago plant in February 1924 on the banks of the Calumet River in the Hegewisch neighborhood on the city’s Southeast Side, it was the dawn of the automobile age and the mass ...
Everyone with even a passing interest in cars knows that the Ford Model T pretty much started it all, so when the company's current CEO, Jim Farley, declares that a “new Model T moment” is ahead, it's ...
CHICAGO — The Calumet River brought in wood from the wild forests of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The railroads brought parts from Ford's network of factories across the United States. A century ago, ...
The Model T Ford is often cited as the first mass-produced car in America, and high schools across the United States still applaud Henry Ford as the inventor of the automobile assembly line. But it ...
It has been nearly 100 years since the last Ford Model T rolled off the assembly line. While no one would bat an eye if Ford refused to service the once-ubiquitous vehicle, TFLclassics found a dealer ...
Ford’s CEO calls its new EV a “Model T moment,” a claim that suggests a revolution in affordability. We analyze if a low-cost, LFP-powered car can truly live up to the legacy of the car that put the ...