E ai ki te pūrongo a te US CNBC, i pānuitia e Ford Motor i tēnei wiki ka tīmata anō tana mahere ki te hanga i tētahi wheketere pākahiko waka hiko i Michigan i te mahi tahi me CATL. I kī a Ford i te marama o Pēpuere o tēnei tau ka hangaia e ia ngā pākahiko rino phosphate lithium i te wheketere, engari i pānuitia i te marama o Hepetema ka whakamutua e ia te hanganga. I kī a Ford i roto i tana kōrero hou kua whakaūtia e ia ka whakatairangahia te kaupapa, ā, ka whakaitihia te rahi o te kaha whakaputa me te whakaaro ki te taurite i waenga i te haumi, te tipu me te hua.
E ai ki te mahere i panuitia e Ford i te marama o Pēpuere o tēnei tau, ko te tipu pākahiko hou i Marshall, Michigan, ka whai haumitanga o te US$3.5 piriona me te kaha whakaputa ā-tau o te 35 gigawatt haora. E matapaetia ana ka tīmata te whakaputa i te tau 2026, ā, e whakamahere ana kia whakamahia he 2,500 kaimahi. Heoi, i kī a Ford i te 21 o ngā rā ka tapahia e ia te kaha whakaputa mā te 43% pea, ka whakaitihia hoki ngā mahi e tumanakohia ana mai i te 2,500 ki te 1,700. Mō ngā take mō te whakaiti i te rahi, i kī a Truby, te Āpiha Whakawhitiwhiti Kōrero Matua o Ford, i te 21 o ngā rā, "I whakaarohia e mātou ngā āhuatanga katoa, tae atu ki te tono mō ngā waka hiko, tā mātou mahere pakihi, te mahere huringa hua, te utu, me ētahi atu, kia taea ai e mātou te neke atu i tēnei ki te whiwhi pakihi pumau i roto i ia wheketere." I kī anō a Truby he tino harikoa ia mō te whanaketanga o ngā waka hiko, engari ko te tere tipu o ngā waka hiko i tēnei wā kāore i te tere rite ki tā te tangata i whakaaro ai. I kī anō a Truby kei te haere tonu te tipu pākahiko ki te tīmata i te hanga i te tau 2026, ahakoa te whakamutua e te kamupene te hanga i te tipu mō te rua marama i waenganui i ngā whiriwhiringa me te uniana o United Auto Workers (UAW).
I kī te "Nihon Keizai Shimbun" kāore a Ford i whakaatu mēnā he hononga ngā huringa o tēnei raupapa mahere ki ngā ia o ngā whanaungatanga Sino-US. I pūrongo ngā pāpāho o Amerika kua whakahēngia a Ford e ētahi kaihanga ture Republican nā tōna whanaungatanga ki a CATL. Engari e whakaae ana ngā tohunga o te umanga.
I te 22 o ngā rā, i kī te paetukutuku o te maheni "Electronic Engineering Issue" o Amerika, i kī ngā tohunga ahumahi kei te hanga a Ford i tētahi wheketere nui e hia piriona tāra te utu i Michigan me CATL hei hanga pākahiko waka hiko, he "hononga e tika ana." E whakapono ana a Tu Le, te tumuaki o Sino Auto Insights, he kamupene tohutohu mō te umanga motuka kei Michigan, mēnā kei te hiahia ngā kaihanga motuka o Amerika ki te hanga waka hiko ka taea e ngā kaihoko noa te utu, he mea nui te mahi tahi me BYD me CATL. He mea nui. I mea ia, "Ko te huarahi anake mō ngā kaihanga motuka tuku iho o Amerika ki te hanga waka iti te utu ko te whakamahi i ngā pākahiko Hainamana. Mai i te tirohanga kaha me te hanga, ka noho tonu rātou i mua i a tātou."
Wā tuku: Whiringa-ā-rangi 24-2023
