{"id":9923,"date":"2025-08-12T00:37:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T00:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/791605486635057152-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T05:02:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T22:02:31","slug":"791605486635057152-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/791605486635057152-2\/","title":{"rendered":"791605486635057152"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><\/h1>\n<p class=\"npf_link\" data-npf=\"{\"type\":\"link\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/fords-answer-to-china-a-completely-new-way-of-making-cars\/\",\"display_url\":\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/fords-answer-to-china-a-completely-new-way-of-making-cars\/\",\"title\":\"Ford's Answer to China: A Completely New Way of Making Cars\",\"description\":\"The American automaker is spending billions on a radical reinvention of EV manufacturing, aimed squarely at taking on Chinese competition an\",\"site_name\":\"WIRED\",\"poster\":[{\"media_key\":\"7611dbb933315f41076cf3715552bc46:ab172eca7fecfa77-b8\",\"type\":\"image\/gif\",\"width\":955,\"height\":500}]}\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/fords-answer-to-china-a-completely-new-way-of-making-cars\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ford\u2019s Answer to China: A Completely New Way of Making Cars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Farley thinks that Ford\u2019s new way of making EVs is the perfect weapon to take on the Chinese automakers, the ideal example of precisely how the West needs to compete. \u201cYou\u2019ve got the BYD model: 700,000 employees, 200,000 powertrain engineers. How do you beat them?\u201d asks Farley. \u201cTurns out, Doug and Alan and the team built a propulsion system that was like Apollo 13, managed down to the watt so that our battery could be so much smaller than BYD\u2019s. Their cost advantage on vertical integration on the battery is offset by innovation in the powertrain. We can\u2019t beat them on scale. We can\u2019t beat them on vertical integration. 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