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Ford CEO Jim Farley says the company's next generation of electric vehicle technology could give Ford a significant efficiency advantage over Chinese automaker BYD.

Speaking during Ford's Q3 2026 earnings call on October 29, Farley claimed that Ford's new electric motors, gearboxes and inverters are approximately 30% more efficient than BYD's.

According to Farley, the improvements are part of Ford's efforts to develop more efficient electric powertrains while keeping vehicle costs under control.

The potential impact goes beyond efficiency. Higher powertrain efficiency could allow Ford to achieve competitive driving range with smaller battery packs, potentially reducing one of the biggest costs of manufacturing electric vehicles.

Farley's comments also come as Ford prepares to introduce its new Universal Electric Vehicle (UEV) platform, which is expected to underpin the upcoming Ford Fathom, an electric midsize pickup with a starting price of $28,350 in the United States.

Cigna is operating in survival mode. There's so much concern about cuts and cost control that it's hard to see what the plan is beyond making the company smaller. Employees need more than another promise that things will improve. We need a reason to believe there's a real path forward or all of us are leave on our own.

No conspiracy theories here. So, what really happened to EMC? EMC was built differently. premium storage drove everything. enterprise customers mattered most. engineering carried real weight. then cloud changed infra. workloads moved somewhere else... customr buying patterns changed too. the old model got fu---d up. dell brought another op model where scale mattered more and cost control mattered even more. standardization was crucial indeed. sooooo, the integration never fully clicked. products kept overlapping. leadership kept rotating . cost pressure never let go. Innovation suffered as it was hard to do and the portfolio stayed complicated at best . meanwhile, cloud kept moving faster... I dont think there was one decision or mistake that destroyed emc. it happened more gradually. the special conditions that benefited EMC went away then EMC's market simply moved elsewhere. my 2c, may be off but this is how i am processing it.

Instead of getting rid of people all the time, why not rationalize coverage and where we put resources? In the Holland for example we have lost all our contracts recently so why do we have an expensive GM and sales force? If we had more people in France we could get better returns. I am sure there are other examples.

• Revenue +10% YoY to $2.396B, despite the average fleet being 1% smaller. That’s a strong sign that Hertz is getting more revenue out of its fleet.
• RPD +9% to $61.98 — a very important metric for Hertz. RPU was +8%.
• Adjusted EBITDA $81M, up from $18M last year — a $63M improvement and, importantly, above the top end of revised guidance. That’s one of the strongest pieces of evidence that the improvement is real.
• GAAP net income was +$64M, versus a $294M loss in Q2 2025. That’s a huge year-over-year improvement.
• The RPD vs. operating-cost spread improved 17%, for the third consecutive quarter. That’s particularly encouraging because it suggests the improvement isn’t simply a one-quarter fluke.
• Hertz says its full-year RPU should now be above $1,500, its “North Star” target.
• The fleet is much younger: 94% of the U.S. core fleet is 2025/2026 model year.

Los Angeles Unified School District is projected to face a significant cash shortfall, prompting concerns about its financial stability. The district must revise its fiscal plan within 45 days to avoid increased county oversight. Experts suggest that declining enrollment, expiring COVID-19 relief funds, and rising operational costs are contributing factors. Tough decisions, including potential layoffs, furloughs, and school consolidation, are anticipated. The district is urged to rely on its own cost-cutting measures rather than expecting substantial state aid.

Los Angeles, California

https://edsource.org/2026/lausd-financial-crisis-looms/763170?amp=1

Hired to control costs and recover margins for Nike. You all know what that means, right?

For those of you left behind, narcissist Leahy is going to hang on (at least) until the end of the Games of the XXXIV Olympiad. Good luck keeping the lights on while ducking the ever lowering deck of the CDW tractor!

Remember how the company lifecycle works:

1. Founder/Engineer – Builds a great product (Krasny)
2. Salesperson – Figures out how to sell it and grows revenue.
3. Professional Manager (MBA) – Scales the organization and optimizes operations (Edwardson)
4. Accountant/CFO – Focuses on efficiency, margins, and cost control (Richards)
5. Lawyer – Tries to manage the lawsuits, regulations, and decline (Leahy) <== You are here

I am glad that my manager has kept my merit increases at a average of a reasonable 2% for the last few years so that we could 1) increase shareholder value, 2) keep staffing expenses manageable and 3) fund higher salaries for the top two executives at BNY. Source = 2026 Executive Comp slides from the Proxy Statement.

Discussions and counter views welcome.

Brace yourselves people, put on your big boy pants because if you thought the last 3 years were rough budget wise internally since Investor Day 2023, get ready for the wallets to be even tighter than they were the last 3 years…..can’t make this stuff up. The stock is almost at it’s all-time high range so these people can’t lose any steam and traction. They want to promise Wall Street even more greed

https://s205.q4cdn.com/565046976/files/doc_events/2026/Feb/25/L3Harris-2026-Investor-Day-Presentation.pdf

according to the 2025 nydfs supplemental filing, company spent $7M in out of pocket leg.al fees in 2024+$2M for l.aw division staff. $9m total not including insurance payouts\need to cut these excessive expenditures to save jobs.

I hope by now the company sees the value in having a count team! Shrink is out the roof in most clubs or hidden! THERE IS NO ONE TO FOCUS ON IT! PAYING 3 GUYS $170,000 A YEAR VS. SHRINKING OUT TRIPLE THAT! MAKE IT MAKE SENSE! Team leads are stretched to thin for all that responsibility

What am I missing? I’ve always heard that a major integrated oil company needs chemicals as a hedge for low oil prices as that spread drives higher chemicals margins. I get that the European sites won’t benefit from this because of the cultural and policy insanity there destroying the framework for industrial profitability, but in the US Geismar is proving this point. Pennsylvania polymers has had the delays, cost overruns, flare issues, furnace blow up, emissions fines, community hatred but besides that it’s gone great. Deer Park has the most expensive ethylene on the gulf coast but at least they also had a major fire. Ok maybe I’ve answered my own question. I mean what lucky company wouldn’t want to buy up all this lol.

Any news for the departments under clinical performance/excellence? Most of this work relates more with cost avoidance vs direct income.

Anytime the email references consolidation/cost control/simplicity/stay focused you know there was some damage done. Additional carnage to come?

CarMax is moving forward with large-scale layoffs that will hit its corporate workforce, particularly in the Richmond region. The job cuts represent a notable downsizing of the company’s corporate operations. Workers based in CarMax’s corporate offices near Richmond are bearing the brunt of these reductions as the company restructures and looks to control costs.

https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/carmax-layoffs-jan-14-2026

Executives have been incrementally spending a ton on travel and approving excursions and such and it’s adding up FAST. They have 0 clue how this stuff works on the finance end

Someone please explain to me how Homecare dimensions survived the cuts That department has been losing money year over year. HS terrible leadership and so many high paying positions. Therapists making full time salary over 90k and seeing 2 patients a week. Nurses that see less than 4 patients a day and a VP who has not clue what she is doing. So many employees laid off of so many departments that are needed and this department spending money like it’s growing on trees.

Is that per year or over several years?

Because if the target is saving 2B from laying off, the math doesn’t seem to jive. Lets say avg employees salary+benefits etc is $300k/yr/person, which is a reasonably high est for avg, laying off 3k will only amount to 0.9B. How could they target to save 2B and said estimated 2-3k employees?

…failed again, why leadership doesn’t just cut the loss and spend $$$$$$ wisely

Fire the CEO to control costs!

HyVee new corporate mission statement is called Trimming The Fat. Jeremy G is cutting any program that is not turning a profit. Jeremy is going to get lean in the next 5 years. They are talking about closing 50 stores that haven’t made profit in 30 years. They are looking at cutting labor. Looking at cutting wages for director and mangers. The next five years will either bring HyVee back from Randy E failures or HyVee will file for bankruptcy. Time will tell.

Been in Business role for a while now, honestly ford is paying more on H1Bs than a local. If you add immigration, attorney charges $$ goes to moon.not sure why we need H1Bs for these roles which can be filled with just an associate degree#H1B#ford

Heard in a meeting today GM is looking to reduce costs more. From what was discussed, it looks like they are going to start trimming near the top of the tree.

I guess the so called bottom 15% wasn’t enough.

They will probably just blame it on the excessive Tariff costs.