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27.08.26 - 20:51
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CivilGrid Raises $26M Series A Financing To Drive U.S. Critical Infrastructure Modernization (Business Wire)
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Funding scales adoption of a platform that unifies fragmented subsurface and regulatory data into a single planning environment for utilities, engineers, and infrastructure ownersSAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CivilGrid, the civil design platform that consolidates all site data into a collaborative map with design workflows to enable builders to deliver safe and affordable projects, announced a $26 million Series A. The platform gives infrastructure teams what they've never had before: a comprehensive view of underground assets and conditions. The round is led by Spark Capital with participation from Energy Impact Partners, Afore Capital, A*, Ford Street Ventures, and SNR Ventures. As the U.S. embarks on historic infrastructure investment, CivilGrid helps major utilities and engineering firms including Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), Atmos Energy, Mark Thomas, and GHD to de-risk billions in annual project spend. The funding will accelerate CivilGrid's national expansion and deepen its product ...
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27.08.26 - 15:06
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Dave Carroll Named President, Ford Energy; Lisa Drake to Retire from Ford at Year-End (Business Wire)
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Carroll joins Ford from ENGIE North America, where he led one of the largest renewables and storage platforms in the U.S.
Drake concludes an accomplished 32-year Ford career spanning leadership positions in engineering, supply chain and building Ford Energy toward launching its first products
DEARBORN, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ford Motor Company today named Dave Carroll president, Ford Energy, effective Aug. 31.
Carroll succeeds Lisa Drake, who will retire from the company at year-end after a 32-year Ford career spanning product development, powertrain engineering, purchasing, manufacturing operations, and the industrialization of Ford's electric vehicle portfolio and battery business.
Carroll joins Ford from ENGIE North America, where he served as chief executive officer and chief renewables officer. Over six years there, he grew the company's renewables operating assets by more than 12 times. He recently was chair of the American Clean Power Association's board of directors and previously held senior ...
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27.08.26 - 09:06
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Ford adopts Apple Maps data for next-gen smart driving (Digitimes)
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Ford Motor Company has announced that it will be adopting Apple's MapKit for Automotive software development kit (SDK) for its own universal EV platform, and feed Apple Maps data to its Latitude AI team, which is working on its next-gen BlueCruise advanced driver assistance system (ADAS). The move reflects a broader willingness among automakers to incorporate data and tools from big tech into their core vehicle systems, and marks a shift from the former hostility between automakers and tech companies into pragmatic collaboration, as the global auto industry seeks to speed up its smart transformation....
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27.08.26 - 06:01
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Ford baut Elektro-SUV mit Geely-Technik in Valencia (Elektroauto-News)
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Ford und Geely bauen gemeinsam ein neues SUV in Valencia, das auf der elektrifizierten Plattform GEA des chinesischen Partners basiert und 2029 starten soll.
Der Beitrag Ford baut Elektro-SUV mit Geely-Technik in Valencia erschien zuerst auf Elektroauto-News.net....
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26.08.26 - 16:30
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Tesla Is Worth Twenty-Five Times More Than Ford (24/7 Wall St.)
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Ford's (NYSE: F) stock has performed better this year than Tesla's (NASDAQ: TSLA). Tesla's stock is down 22%. Ford's is up 6%. While that is short of the S&P 500, which is up 12%, it is a strong performance for the No. 2 car company in the U.S. What stock performance doesn't show is that ... Tesla Is Worth Twenty-Five Times More Than Ford...
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25.08.26 - 04:45
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Central Banking: The Scourge Of Civilization (ZeroHedge)
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Central Banking: The Scourge Of Civilization
Authored by George Ford Smith via Mises Institute,
Apple builds and sells iPhones. I happen to own one of the older models, for the same reason I own a last-legs older model car. What if Apple could skip the build part and sell only the phone? The money saved would be an enormous boost to its bottom line. And if Apple passed the savings onto customers I could conceivably afford to upgrade.
Where would the phones come from? From a bookkeeping entry, of course.
Unfortunately, Apple's customers are very demanding and want the real things, so the build operations will have to stay. Perhaps their executives looked upon another business and envied their ability to sell loans without drawing down their savings. Customer with good credit wants a loan? Create the amount with a few taps on a keyboard and send him on his way.
The customer will spend his newly-acquired money, thus keeping people employed. Since he has good credit, he will be able to make month...
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