Carmaker Ford Motor Co on Tuesday jumped into the emergency push by major U.S. m...
), Ford is taking heed of U.S. President Donald Trump’s call for U.S. automakers to work across sectors in producing equipment needed for the pandemic.
Ford said its partnerships were code-named “Project Apollo” after the Apollo 13 launch in 1970 when a lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank failed two days into the mission, forcing the astronauts to improvise a fix. Hackett told “CBS This Morning” he hopes to have Ford producing “hundreds of thousands” of ventilators through both efforts by early June.
Under the simplified design, Ford is looking at using fans from its Ford F-150 pickup’s cooled seats to make parts of the respirators.
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