45 years of Isuzu in South Africa celebrated
ISUZU Motors South Africa is celebrating its legacy of producing ISUZU bakkies in the country over the past 45 years with the launch of the limited-edition D-MAX 45.
- Product News
- 26 July 2024
This past Tuesday (15 November), Ford Motor Company CEO, Jim Farley, made a thrilling claim, saying the manufacturing of electric vehicles would need 40% less labour than internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles.
By now it has become part of EV lore that the maintenance of these vehicles will be much cheaper owing to the simplicity of EVs compared to their fossil-fuel counterparts. But Farley’s claim, which follows that simplicity also means simplicity in production, has not often been discussed.
Farley, speaking at a conference in Detroit, said this meant the company has to pursue more vertical integration by retraining workers instead of laying them off in order for Ford to manufacture more parts in-house. This will hark back to the heydays of Ford when Henry Ford owned forests, iron mines, limestone quarries and even a rubber plantation in Brazil in an attempt to wholly control the company’s supply chain.
Farley said: “If Henry Ford came back to life, he would have thought the last 60 years weren’t that exciting, but he would love it right now because we’re totally reinventing the company.”
In the light of Ford’s target of reaching 50% EV sales by 2030, Farley acknowledged that the transition would be challenging and that there would be “storm clouds”.
Farley pointed out that the battery production process was one area where jobs could be added and workers could be retrained.
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Zero Carbon Charge calls on President Ramaphosa to announce in his Opening of Parliament Address on Thursday that the new Government of National Unity (GNU) will prioritise the transition to electric vehicles (EVs) and set out measures to do this.
Following extensive investments in 2022 and 2023 into public charging infrastructure, Audi South Africa is at it again.