Ford’s EV and software chief Doug Field is leaving the company

Doug Field, who near Apple 5 years ago to helm Ford's multibillion-dollar stake connected electrical vehicles and software, is stepping down adjacent month. Replacing him volition beryllium Alan Clarke, the ex-Tesla technologist who present leads Ford's California-based skunkworks lab. Clarke's caller rubric volition beryllium vice president of precocious improvement projects, and helium volition proceed to helm the effort to make Ford's Universal Electric Vehicle (UEV) Platform.

The shake-up comes little 5 months aft Ford announced a monolithic $19.5 cardinal writedown connected its EV investment, arsenic good arsenic the discontinuation of respective electrical models, including the F-150 Lightning pickup truck. …

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