Ford | Wikipedia audio article

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Motor_Company 00:02:15 1 History 00:02:23 1.1 20th century 00:07:08 1.2 21st century 00:16:49 1.3 Logo evolution 00:16:57 2 Corporate affairs 00:17:06 2.1 Executive management 00:17:36 3 Ford Motor Company Fund 00:19:03 4 Operations 00:19:28 4.1 North America 00:20:07 4.2 Europe 00:24:51 4.3 East and Southeast Asia 00:26:35 4.3.1 Ford of Korea 00:27:59 4.4 South and West Asia 00:29:40 4.5 South America 00:30:17 4.6 Africa 00:31:51 4.7 Research 00:32:23 5 Former operations 00:32:32 5.1 East and Southeast Asia 00:32:49 5.1.1 Ford of Japan 00:35:05 5.2 Oceania 00:38:14 6 Products and services 00:38:23 6.1 Automobiles 00:40:23 6.2 Current marques 00:40:31 6.3 Former marques 00:40:40 6.4 Trucks 00:44:12 6.5 Buses 00:46:55 6.6 Tractors 00:47:48 6.7 Financial services 00:48:01 6.8 Automotive components 00:48:19 7 Motorsport 00:48:50 7.1 Open-wheel car racing 00:48:59 7.1.1 IndyCar 00:49:57 7.1.2 Formula Ford 00:50:19 7.1.3 Formula One 00:51:15 7.2 Stock car racing 00:52:19 7.3 Rally 00:53:25 7.4 Rallycross 00:53:59 7.5 Sports cars 00:56:27 7.6 Touring cars 00:56:56 7.7 Drag racing 00:57:19 7.8 Drifting 00:57:44 8 Environmental initiatives 00:57:53 8.1 Compressed natural gas 00:58:21 8.2 Flexible fuel vehicles 00:59:11 8.3 Electric drive vehicles 00:59:20 8.3.1 Hybrid electric vehicles 01:02:43 8.3.2 Plug-in electric vehicles 01:07:21 8.4 Hydrogen 01:08:59 8.5 Increased fuel efficiency 01:11:33 8.6 PC power management 01:12:09 9 Sponsorships 01:12:54 10 Sales numbers Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago. Learning by listening is a great way to: - increases imagination and understanding - improves your listening skills - improves your own spoken accent - learn while on the move - reduce eye strain Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio: https://assistant.google.com/services/invoke/uid/0000001a130b3f91 Other Wikipedia audio articles at: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wikipedia+tts Upload your own Wikipedia articles through: https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts Speaking Rate: 0.9503871372057553 Voice name: en-AU-Wavenet-D "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." - Socrates SUMMARY ======= Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automaker that has its main headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. It was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. The company sells automobiles and commercial vehicles under the Ford brand and most luxury cars under the Lincoln brand. Ford also owns Brazilian SUV manufacturer Troller, an 8% stake in Aston Martin of the United Kingdom and a 32% stake in Jiangling Motors. It also has joint-ventures in China (Changan Ford), Taiwan (Ford Lio Ho), Thailand (AutoAlliance Thailand), Turkey (Ford Otosan), and Russia (Ford Sollers). The company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and is controlled by the Ford family; they have minority ownership but the majority of the voting power.Ford introduced methods for large-scale manufacturing of cars and large-scale management of an industrial workforce using elaborately engineered manufacturing sequences typified by moving assembly lines; by 1914, these methods were known around the world as Fordism. Ford's former UK subsidiaries Jaguar and Land Rover, acquired in 1989 and 2000 respectively, were sold to Tata Motors of India in March 2008. Ford owned the Swedish automaker Volvo from 1999 to 2010. In 2011, Ford discontinued the Mercury brand, under which it had marketed entry-level luxury cars in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Middle East since 1938. Ford is the second-largest U.S.-based automaker (behind General Motors) and the fifth-largest in the world (behind Toyota, VW, Hyundai-Kia and General Motors) based on 2015 vehicle production. At the end of 2010, Ford was the fifth largest automaker in Europe. The company went public in 1956 but the Ford family, through special Class B shares, still retain 40 percent voting rights. During the financial crisis at the beginning of the 21st century, it was close to bankruptcy, but it has since returned to profitability. Ford was the eleventh-ranked overall American-based company in the 2018 Fortune 500 list, based on global revenues in 2017 of $156.7 billion. In 2008, Ford produced 5.532 million automobiles and employed about 213,000 employees at around 90 plants and facilities worldwide.

Added 24 May 2026