Plannen van Ford AV volgens Detroit news
Ford Autonomous Vehicles will house all parts of Ford's self-driving vehicle business. It's a signal from the Dearborn-based automaker that its autonomous vehicle research is gaining traction, and the various facets of the company's autonomous vehicle business is reaching a point where it needs to break out from under the Ford Smart Mobility umbrella.
The second quarter results come roughly 14 months into Hackett's tenure as CEO, and amid continued cost-cutting and evaluations within the Dearborn-based automaker.
The company posted a $1.7 billion profit in the first quarter of the year, a 9 percent increase from a year prior. But Shanks said at the time that Hackett's work to cut costs wouldn't show results until 2019. Company officials have repeatedly stressed that the 2018 outlook, while profitable, is not as impressive as they'd like.
The company plans to trim $25.5 billion in operating costs by 2022 and cut its North American passenger car lineup by more than 80 percent, eliminating the Taurus, Fiesta, Fusion, C-Max and Focus sedans within a few years, and replacing at least the Focus and Fusion sedans with crossover wagons.
Ford plans to add five all-new SUVs over the next two years, along with the 2019 Ranger midsize pickup that debuted at the Detroit auto show in January. The company plans for nearly 90 percent of its vehicles sold in 2020 to be a truck, SUV or commercial vehicle.