How actual is Ford’s $30,000 EV pickup truck?

Ford has large plans for 2027: This week, the American carmaker introduced a brand new “Common EV Platform” for future electrical automobiles, spearheaded by a $30,000 mid-sized EV pickup. On this episode, we’re joined by SAE Worldwide Editor Roberto Baldwin to interrupt down all of Ford’s claims, in addition to the place its $5 billion manufacturing funding goes. Can Ford actually rebound after gradual EV gross sales and final 12 months’s disappointing product delays?TopicsFord has a plan for a ‘Common EV Platform’ and a $30,000 mid-size electrical pickup, can they pull it off? – 0:49OpenAI releases GPT-5, the reception to date is combined – 24:45NVIDIA and AMD could tithe 15% of their Chinese language GPU gross sales to the U.S. authorities – 30:18Goodbye: AOL will part out dial-up on the finish of September – 33:25AI-powered “Smarter Siri” possible received’t hit iPhones till Spring 2026 – 36:42Perplexity makes an unsolicited supply to purchase Chrome for $34 billion, which is greater than the corporate is value – 41:03Listener Mail: Gaming on a MacBook Air – 52:31Pop tradition picks – 59:13Subscribe!CreditsHost: Devindra HardawarGuest: Roberto BaldwinProducer: Ben EllmanMusic: Dale North and Terrence O’Brien