Former Ford CEO says industry faces 'reckoning' over EV goals

Fields — Mark Fields on electric vehicles: "They are going to have to first restructure the margins of the business and on top of it you're going to have to incentivize demand." (MICHAEL MARTINEZ)

Michael Martinez

June 11, 2019 02:20 PM

TEL AVIV, Israel — Former Ford Motor Co. CEO Mark Fields says the auto industry needs to tap the brakes on its expectations for electrification.

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