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Ford Motor Co. passed a significant milestone in its conversion to electric vehicles, producing more battery-powered Mustangs so far this year than gasoline-fueled versions of its iconic pony car.
Ford has built 27,816 electric Mustang Mach-E models at a plant in Mexico this year compared to 26,089 copies of the traditional internal combustion engine Mustang at a factory in Michigan, according to production data the automaker released Thursday.
CEO Jim Farley said last week that he expects four-in-10 models Ford sells to be electric by 2030, as he revealed plans to boost spending on battery-powered models by 36 percent to $30 billion. The Mach-E went on sale late last year and was the top-selling vehicle in Norway last month. In the U.S., where EV adoption is slower, the gas Mustang still outsells the electric version by nearly three-to-one.
On the first day of class at Cincinnati s Aiken High School last August, Rachel McMillian and her students agreed on one thing: They wouldn t be centering any of their lessons around George Floyd s murder or Derek Chauvin s trial. As a Black teacher of Black students, we collectively decided that it was not something that we would watch in-depth, McMillian said. It’s been pretty traumatic for all of us.
That doesn t mean it hasn t come up though.
Her students, a group of 16- and 17-year-old Black and brown students who want to be educators one day, constantly draw the connections from what they hear on the news and watch on TikTok to what they re learning in class.
Despite only a slight increase in overall sales so far this year, it s a new day in paradise, some Ford Motor Co. dealers said Thursday.
Business for them has seen a dramatic uptick since the coronavirus pandemic shut down cities and dealerships across America. With safety protocols in place and used car prices up, new car sales spiked in the first quarter of 2021. Both our stores set records, said Chad Wilson, general manager of Wilson Ford in Saginaw and Midland Ford. We ve had the Midland store since 1991 and the Saginaw store since 2018. I don t know that we ve ever seen numbers like this.