Beijing/Detroit — US vehicle maker Ford is overhauling its China plans as its global One Ford strategy is holding it back in the world’s biggest vehicle market, two high-ranking company insiders said. The review of its China operations, part of a broader strategy re-think under new CEO Jim Hackett, is likely to see Ford focusing on electric commercial vans, which China is encouraging in its polluted and congested city centres, as well as electric cars. A shift to e-vans and e-trucks in China would also fit with Ford’s reckoning that a best play globally for electrification and autonomous driving might be in commercial and delivery vehicles — a part of the market where it is already strong in the US and Europe. The One Ford strategy — which helped the vehicle maker’s turnaround under former CEO Alan Mulally — does not fit all situations, the two insiders said, particularly in China and India, two crucial markets where Ford’s sales have slowed. "That’s why nobody internally talks abou...
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