{"id":989893,"date":"2026-02-05T08:11:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T02:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989893"},"modified":"2026-02-05T08:38:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T03:08:44","slug":"ford-and-geely-in-talks-for-manufacturing-technology-partnership-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/05\/ford-and-geely-in-talks-for-manufacturing-technology-partnership-sources-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford and Geely in talks for manufacturing, technology partnership, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ford and China&#8217;s Geely are in discussions about a potential partnership, eight people with knowledge of the ongoing talks said, as the world&#8217;s carmakers look to share heavier technology and manufacturing costs. <\/p>\n<p>The companies \u200dare in talks to have Geely use Ford factory space in Europe to \u200bproduce vehicles for the region, three people familiar with the matter said. They also have discussed the potential framework for shared vehicle technologies, including \u2060for automated driving, according to two different people with knowledge of the talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ford and China&#8217;s Geely are in discussions about a potential partnership, eight people with knowledge of the ongoing talks said, as the world&#8217;s carmakers look to share heavier technology and manufacturing costs. The companies \u200dare in talks to have Geely use Ford factory space in Europe to \u200bproduce vehicles for the region, three people familiar with the matter said. They also have discussed the potential framework for shared vehicle technologies, including \u2060for automated driving, according to two different people with knowledge of the talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}