Doug Field, the engineer who ran Tesla’s Model 3 program and later Ford’s entire EV operation, is now president of Mind Robotics, the industrial robotics startup Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe spun out of Rivian last year.
He lands at a company that has now…
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe’s startup Mind Robotics announced the appointment of Doug Field as president in a major coup for the CEO’s secretive robotics project. Field was a VP of special projects at Apple, where he was the de facto head of the company’s ultimately unsuccessful Project Titan effort to make an autonomous electric car. […]
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Ford expects to begin prototype builds of the Fathom EV in the first quarter of 2027.
Ford said today that its next-generation electric vehicle – recently dubbed Fathom – will go into production at the automaker’s recently overhauled Louisville Assembly Plant in the first quarter of 2027. The first Fathoms will be prototypes, with Ford’s team in Louisville already in the production-level pre-tooling phase at the recently converted facility. Factory workers […]
Ford is rolling out a new AI-powered assistant that can answer questions about your Ford or Lincoln vehicle, such as how much fuel you’ll need for your next road trip or whether your truck can tow that new motor boat. The app is rolling out first to the Ford and Lincoln mobile apps, where it […]
Ford’s affordable electric truck now has a name: the Fathom, priced at $29,945 with a 300-mile range and deliveries starting sometime in 2027.
Ford’s CEO has described the new Ford Fathom as a “Model T moment” for the company. But the EV pickup is unlikely to live up to lofty expectations, and maybe it doesn’t have to.