1129.经济学人-What Tesla can learn from Ford-5

Mr Farley is also emulating Mr Musk in trying to pare back the industry’s notorious complexity.

Just as a lighter, nimbler machine has a better chance of staying ahead of a big and powerful one on the track, the thinking goes, a simpler company should be able to negotiate the twists and turns of industrial change.

Famously, Tesla makes just four models with few options for customisation. Similarly, Ford’s next generation of electric pickups will come with one cabin, one frame and one standard battery in just seven basic formats, says Lisa Drake, Ford’s overseer for EV industrialisation.

That compares with an options list for the bestselling petrol-powered f-150 pickup that allows for millions of combinations.

Rather than integrating hundreds of parts from suppliers, each with chips that need to work in harmony, Ford’s new EV architectures, set for launch in 2025, will share more common mechanical and software underpinnings

这是《经济学人》2023年6月刊的一篇文章'What Tesla and other carmakers can learn from Ford'第6段。

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emulating：努力赶上；模仿

pare：逐步缩小；减去

notorious：臭名昭著的

Farley先生也模仿马斯克先生，尝试减少行业的臭名昭著的复杂性。

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nimbler：敏捷的

twists and turns：迂回曲折

正如一个轻便，灵敏的机器有更好的机会在赛道上超越强大的机器，同样，简单的公司应当能越过行业变化的曲折。

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cabin：座舱

众所周知，特斯拉仅仅生产四种车型并且没有什么客户定制。同样的，福特的下一代电动皮卡在七个基本设计中只有一种座舱，一种悬架以及一个标准电池，福特的电动车工业化监督者Lisa Drake说道。

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相比之下，最畅销的汽油动力f-150皮卡可提供数百万种组合。

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integrating：集成；合并

不是去整合来自供应商们数以百计的零部件（每一个零部件都需要协调工作），福特2025年推出的全新电动车体系将会共享更多通用的机械和软件基础。