At a truck plant outside of Detroi which few had access to. Engineers were secretly at work on a project you might have thought was dead and gone, an electric truck. The Wall Street Journal reported on the details the other day as Ford dropped much of the secrecy and announced there will be an American-made EV option in the near future.And it will be cheap, $30 ,000 meant to directly compete with what China has been offering, keeping American automakers in the fight for the future. So what is Ford promising ...

We are here in Long Beach, California, at Ford's brand new electric vehicle Development Center. Up until a few months ago, this was a very secretive location. It started as a skunkworks team with one person, and it has now grown to about 350 people, and they are developing what they're calling the Universal Electric V ehicle.This is Ford's $5 billion bet, as Ford CEO Jim Farley has called it. The main goal is to obviously compete against the growing competition of Chinese vehicles globally, as well as U.S. ...

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