KEY POINTS
  • Ford will begin reporting its financial results by business unit, instead of by region, and will release revised results that will show how the new business units would have performed in 2021 and 2022.
  • The changes amount to the most detailed look yet by any legacy automaker into the finances behind the EV business.
  • Wall Street is taking a wait-and-see approach to the changes, but is expecting significant EV unit losses.

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Incoming Ford CEO Jim Farley (left) and Ford Executive Chairman Bill Ford Jr. pose with a 2021 F-150 during an event Sept. 17, 2020 at the company's Michigan plant that produces the pickup.

DETROIT – Ford Motor is about to tell investors what they've long wondered: How much is the transition to electric vehicles costing?

The automaker on Thursday plans to begin reporting its financial results by business unit, instead of by region, ushering in the new reporting structure with a "teach-in" for analysts and media — on the theme of "Ford Refounded" — and releasing revised versions of its financial results that will reveal how the new business units would have performed in 2021 and 2022.

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