"We are currently doing an internal study to understand the needs and capabilities and how we maybe able to help during this crisis," Jeannine Ginivan,Rachel McCleery, a Ford spokeswoman, said the company"stands ready to help the [Trump] administration in any way we can, including the possibility of producing ventilators and other equipment."
She said Ford has had preliminary talks with the U.S. and U.K. governments"looking into the feasibility. It's vital that we all pull together to help the country weather this crisis and come out the other side stronger than ever."their North American plants to protect workers from the spread of the coronavirus. Plants will not reopen until the end of March at the earliest.
Now is the time for automakers to pay back the American Taxpayer who bailed their a$$ out. Donate the devices.
Shades of WWII
Stop the fearmongering! This bull**** will pass! Live your life!
New meaning to the acronym Found On Road Dead.
Yes they can help. 'WWII...the company churned out $12.3 billion in aircraft, tanks, vehicles and arms. GM had produced 854,000 trucks, 198,000 diesel engines, 206,000 aircraft engines, and 38,000 tanks, tank destroyers, and armored vehicles, not to mention guns and ammunition.'
That seems like quite a fucking pivot. Why not ambulances, herse, mobile clinics?
International Harvester made Garands. So I’m sure you can figure it out
I thought they shut down the plants for safety. What, are robots gonna make the ventilators?
YES!!! Please for the love of God start making ventilators and filters and safe, portable generators for back up in case of power failure. We'll need mobile clinics too!! Please help your fellow Americans cause we always help you!! It's time you give back!!
America coming together, except for the F msm-dnc. enemeywithin
Please please let this happen! Save doctors, nurses, patients all the while putting people to work!!
dbenso01 Would be a nice example of Penrose’s (1959) notions of resource fungibility and not only productive but also social opportunity corporate development adaptation social sanitary health need responsibility
Hosiery factories made parachutes for WWII. Ford and GM can make ventilators or anything else to which they set their minds. This 'can do' attitude is what we need right now; if they rise to the occasion, there's no doubt they will be richly rewarded.
If anyone can do it in record tim it’s gotta be Elon Musk. Right?
Hahahaha...so we can bail them out once again? How has this not been assessed as a company that has received a great deal of taxpayer money before?
Don’t let VW. I don’t want diesel lungs! 🤣🔥👍👏💙
🙏 fabricate them for everyone, not just the US, pls.
Yes to Ford. No to GM if they make equipment that is as poor in quality as their vehicles.
elonmusk - I hope your teams are also preparing to do the same. I’m an avid tesla fan boy, but these are extenuating times 🙏🏼
Wish they would have looked at this in January but I guess now is better than never. Hopefully they move fast.
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Forward thinking
With my luck, they will put me on a Ford made ventilator and it will have a dual clutch transmission and fail just like my Focus.
Just do it. Don't wait for Trump. Just f'ing do it.
GM FORD planning it and not talking; elonmusk tweets that he could, but doesn't actually attempt or plan. REAL DEAL Ford _General_Motors show why 'all talk' Tesla is not what we are about. USA
This makes me want to buy a new Ford when this shit is all done.
Hey, look at us being a real America again!
Hey Ford GM Make This. It's a 'phone booth' for coronavirus tests that protects healthcare workers and speeds up testing.
I might train for the Iron Man.
Capitalism. Can’t sell cars sell ventilators. I know two guys who are designing a new type of ventilator after this is over will sell it at high cost to upper income people to keep in their homes like you would an emergency kit for future pandemics.They’ll probably get rich on it
Trump hasn’t ordered this? What is he waiting for?
Thank you NPR!
It would be great if they can! This is what we'll need the most of in the coming wave.
They should. America needs more manufacturing jobs in the medical field.
Let them profit a bit off it, too, to stay afloat. This is awesome news. Hope more companies do this.