{"id":7561,"date":"2021-05-25T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/?p=7561"},"modified":"2021-05-25T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T15:00:00","slug":"why-connected-evs-are-fords-future-jim-farley-on-the-inflection-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/in\/news\/stories\/why-connected-evs-are-fords-future-jim-farley-on-the-inflection-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Connected EVs Are Ford\u2019s Future: Jim Farley on \u201cThe Inflection Point\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Quick Take: <\/strong>Jim Farley, CEO at Ford Motor Company, joined \u201cThe Inflection Point,\u201d hosted by Monica Langley, EVP, Salesforce, to discuss how he is transforming the car company where his grandfather once worked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What\u2019s the impact?:<\/strong> The next big car trend and corporate responsibility are two wildly different subject matters \u2014 but both are on Farley\u2019s mind these days. They\u2019re just part of the many changes Farley has brought to Ford as he seeks to transform the Blue Oval into an automaker driven by social values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What he\u2019s saying:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI thought the electric car was going to be the coolest thing happening in my career; I was wrong. It\u2019s the connected-data vehicle that is really the game changer in our industry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re a company where people volunteer without being asked.&nbsp; We made ventilators, not because anyone in the government asked us. We had people driving to South Dakota to 3M to make ventilators, and they volunteered. No one asked them in the company.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat sense of service to the Ford employees or the community in Detroit doesn\u2019t stop when you&#8217;re the CEO. 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