"We want to give Ford the flexibility and optionality to eventually vertically integrate and that was one of the drivers behind the creation of this battery center of excellence in Ford Ion Park," Thai-Tang told reporters during a media briefing Tuesday. "It's really for us to develop that expertise and competency in house, and give us that flexibility in the future."
Thai-Tang said Ford will focus on "advancing" the next-generation of lithium-ion batteries that are used today. The company is also looking into solid-state lithium metal batteries considered safer and better than the cells on the market now. He said Ford plans to do so through internal work as well as collaborations.The investment and hiring comes after Ford put $100 million into a new battery benchmarking and test lab.
$OZSC OzopEnergy can do this!!
You can clearly tell has some sort of interest with Ford and GM. Just keeps on printing good news for ICE producers but keeps on with the negative narrative with Tesla. Tesla will sink their competitors