Ford Motor Company + Changan Automobile
Ford Motor Company
Dearborn, Michigan · 3 relationships
Active relationship
Joint Venture · 2001–present
Changan Automobile
Chongqing, Chongqing · 1 relationship
Analysis
Changan Ford Automobile Corporation Ltd. is a 50/50 joint venture between Ford Motor Company and Chongqing Changan Automobile. Ford's latest Form 10-K says the venture operates four assembly plants, an engine plant and a transmission plant in China, producing and distributing Ford- and Lincoln-brand passenger vehicles for the Chinese market. [1]
The operating footprint is distributed across several manufacturing sites. Ford's current plant directory identifies a Chongqing powertrain and vehicle-assembly operation producing the Lincoln Corsair and Zephyr and the Ford Escape and Mondeo, and a Hangzhou vehicle-assembly operation producing the Ford Explorer and Edge L and the Lincoln Nautilus and Aviator. The directory gives the Chongqing site a 2012 opening year and the Hangzhou site a 2015 opening year. [2]
The relationship also includes commercial and product-development functions. In 2018 Ford said it had created a National Distribution Services Division within the Changan Ford joint-venture structure to handle marketing, sales and service for Ford-branded passenger vehicles, while its China plan called for more local product development and manufacturing. [3]
Changan's 2024 annual report lists Changan Ford among its joint-venture brands and names products including the new-generation Mondeo, new-generation Navigator, CX-5 and Axela. Taken together with Ford's current facility and filing disclosures, the public record shows a vertically integrated China platform spanning assembly, powertrains, distribution and a Ford-Lincoln product portfolio; the sources used here do not provide a single current consolidated sales figure or substantiate the older peak-sales estimate in the original description. [4] [1]
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Dearborn, Michigan · 3 records in this database
Ford Motor Company has operated since 1903, when Henry Ford founded the company that would become the Ford global brand. Ford’s history identifies the Model T, introduced in 1908, as the vehicle that put the world on wheels, and identifies Highland Park as the site where the company’s moving assembly line was successfully introduced in 1913. [1] [2] [3]
The Model T was designed to be affordable, simple to operate, and durable, and Ford says more than 15 million were built and sold before production ended in 1927. The moving assembly line changed the production sequence by bringing the vehicle to workers station by station; Ford reports that the process reduced Model T assembly time to 90 minutes and helped lower its price from $825 in 1908 to $260 in 1925. [2] [3]
Ford’s current vehicle business is organized into three customer-focused segments: Ford Blue, which primarily covers Ford and Lincoln internal-combustion and hybrid vehicles and related parts and services; Ford Model e, which focuses on electric vehicles and digital-vehicle technologies; and Ford Pro, which serves commercial customers. Ford also provides financial services through Ford Credit and has an integrated-services effort for software-enabled customer experiences. [4]
Ford remains based in Dearborn, Michigan, and reports operations across North America and more than 125 countries. Its present scope combines vehicle design, manufacturing, marketing, financing, servicing, electrification, software, and commercial-fleet offerings, making the company both a mass-market automaker and a provider of related mobility and financial services. [5] [6]
Chongqing, Chongqing · 1 record in this database
Chongqing Changan Automobile Co., Ltd. presents itself as a global mobility-technology company with 45 years of vehicle-manufacturing experience. [1] Its business covers vehicle development, manufacturing, sales and service, and its current brand portfolio includes CHANGAN, CHANGAN NEVO, CHANGAN DEEPAL, AVATR and CHANGAN LCV. [1] The company also lists joint ventures with Changan Ford, Changan Mazda and JMC. [1]
Changan’s current global footprint includes products available in 129 countries and regions, 93 plants worldwide, more than 19,000 sales and service outlets, more than 14,000 dealers and over 1,100 global suppliers. [1] The company says its international R&D system includes more than 24,000 engineers and technical professionals, 44 technology centers, 20 technology companies and more than 200 laboratories, with more than 7% of annual revenue invested in research and development. [1]
The company organizes its transformation around a Green Plan, an Intelligent Plan and a Vast Ocean Plan. [1] Changan’s 2025 ESG report says that in 2025 it sold 2.913 million vehicles, including more than 1.1 million new-energy vehicles, and continued work on electrification, batteries, intelligent mobility, software, global expansion and full-value-chain decarbonization. [2]
Changan’s relevance to cross-company technology cooperation is especially visible in AVATR. [3] Changan’s current AVATR profile identifies Changan Automobile as the first-largest shareholder with a 40.99% stake and CATL as the second-largest with 14.1%; it describes Huawei as a strategic partner supplying intelligent components such as advanced-driver-assistance algorithms and intelligent-cockpit solutions. [3] The profile says AVATR combines Changan manufacturing, CATL battery technology and Huawei smart-mobility components in a premium intelligent-EV platform. [3]