Ford may have committed to adopting Tesla’s EV charging connector, but that doesn’t mean the relationship is warming between the legacy automaker and the upstart.
Ford CEO Jim Farley indicated he doesn’t see the Tesla Cybertruck coming for his bread and butter of F-series pickup trucks. That’s because, as he puts it, the Cybertruck is “for Silicon Valley people.” Farley likened the Cybertruck to a “cool high-end product parked in front of a hotel,” adding, “I don’t make trucks like that. […] I make trucks for real people who do real work, and that’s a different kind of truck.”
Farley’s comment is unusual for automotive CEOs, who rarely directly acknowledge their competitors, much less criticize their products.