Doug Field

Ford is reorganizing its standalone electric vehicle division — and losing the executive who built it. The automaker said today that Doug Field, its chief EV, digital, and design officer, will leave the company next month after nearly five years leading Ford’s push into software-defined EVs.

In his place, Ford isn’t bringing in another Silicon Valley hire. It’s folding the EV, digital, and design group into its global manufacturing operations under COO Kumar Galhotra, in a new unit called Product Creation and Industrialization.

Updated: the article’s lead was updated from Ford ‘dissolving’ its EV unit to ‘reshuffling’.

Tesla’s Senior VP of engineering, Doug Field, who has been leading vehicle engineering at the automaker, is taking a leave of absence for an undisclosed period of time.
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