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   Fish of Rage (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 25-Jul-2025 12:21:52 JST Fish of Rage

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   • Miguel Afonso Caetano
   @echo @remixtures yes.
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     • Miguel Afonso Caetano
     @remixtures Do people really want all that phone shit in their cars?
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     Miguel Afonso Caetano (remixtures@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Friday, 25-Jul-2025 12:21:55 JST Miguel Afonso Caetano

     "Jim Farley, the CEO of Ford, said on Friday that the Chinese EV industry posed a serious threat to the American automaker.

     Farley was speaking to the author Walter Isaacson during a panel at the Aspen Ideas Festival when he was asked about China's EV market. Farley said he'd made about six or seven trips to China in the past year.

     "It's the most humbling thing I have ever seen. Seventy percent of all EVs in the world, electric vehicles, are made in China," Farley said.

     "They have far superior in-vehicle technology. Huawei and Xiaomi are in every car," Farley added. "You get in, you don't have to pair your phone. Automatically, your whole digital life is mirrored in the car."

     Farley told Isaacson that part of the reason Ford couldn't offer something similar was because tech giants such as Google and Apple "decided not to go in the car business."

     "Beyond that, their cost, their quality of their vehicles is far superior to what I see in the West," Farley said."

     https://www.businessinsider.com/ford-ceo-china-ev-progress-most-humbling-thing-ever-seen-2025-6