Last month, Volkswagen and Ford announced a joint venture focused on light commercial vehicles and a possible partnership – including autonomous and electrified vehicles.
Their two electric vehicle programs are out of sync, “almost like snowboarding and skiing,” Jim Farley, Ford’s President of Global Markets, said during a taping of the TV show Autoline Detroit, on Monday.
The key issue is Ford’s demand that the German carmaker invest at least $500 million in its own autonomous vehicle program.
Read the article at The Detroit Bureau.