Ford Motor : UN SDG Index 2022

Addressing three of our salient human rights points – product security and high quality; occupational well being, security and well-being; and air high quality – Ford cares about buyer security, and car security will all the time be one in all our highest priorities. We’re working in the direction of zero-emissions from our autos and amenities to assist enhance air high quality, and a future that’s free from car crashes and office accidents. We perceive that for our personal staff and neighborhood members to succeed in their full potential, we should assist their bodily, psychological and emotional well being and wellbeing and keep the very best ranges of security all through the availability chain.

Air High quality:

• • We’re addressing air high quality in our autos, our operations and our financing. By means of our analysis, car improvement and operations, we’re working to cut back emissions of non-CO2 pollution, in accordance with more and more stringent requirements world wide. We acknowledge inside combustion engines emit pollution that may affect air high quality. We’re compliant with or surpass all international standards for emission necessities.

  On the similar time, we proceed to develop our different fuels portfolio and have dedicated to working in the direction of all gross sales of latest automobiles and vans being zero-emission globally by 2040, and by no later than 2035 in main markets.

• • The electrification of our iconic nameplates continues to progress as we carry electrical autos to the mainstream market. The all-electric Mustang Mach-E was launched in North America and Europe in late 2020 and got here to China in 2021. The all-electric F-150 Lightning and E-Transit cargo van will debut in 2022. These autos will assist residential and business enterprise prospects obtain sustainability objectives, and assist cities and industrial areas enhance air high quality. By 2030 we count on all-electric autos to make up 50% of our international gross sales.

• • On the manufacturing aspect we have now significantly lowered emissions from Ford manufacturing amenities in China. From 2020 to November 2021, vegetation lowered VOC emissions depth by 17% (3.7 g/m2), equal to an annual discount of greater than 200 metric tons of absolute VOC emissions by way of numerous administration and engineering funding measures, contributing to cleaner air.

• • We linked ESG metrics to $15.5B Company and Supplemental Revolvers and launched our first $2.5B inexperienced bond. Internet proceeds from sustainable financing will assist fund our clear transportation and clear manufacturing actions.

• • To construct environmental capability, significantly concerning the discount of air emissions, we collaborate with our suppliers by way of our Partnership for A Cleaner Surroundings (PACE) program. We now have shared greatest follow initiatives, together with air emissions reductions, with almost 80 key suppliers by way of PACE.

Product Security:

• • In 2021, we launched a security aspiration to work towards a future that’s free from car crashes. The protection and high quality of our autos will all the time be a high precedence. Our methods assist be certain that our autos meet or exceed efficiency and high quality requirements. We play a number one function in car security and driver help innovation and are working to develop new security applied sciences.

• • In 2021, Ford doubled the variety of TOP SAFETY PICK awards from the Insurance coverage Institute for Freeway Security, bringing the overall variety of awards to 10.

• • For the 2021 mannequin yr, a complete of 20 Ford and Lincoln nameplates have been rated with 5-Star Total Car Scores in a number of markets throughout the U.S., Europe, and China New Automotive Evaluation Program (NCAP) as of January 2022.

• • To attain excessive ranges of security efficiency, we conduct engineering analyses, laptop simulations and part, subsystem and full-vehicle crash assessments at a number of websites in the US and Europe, together with crash-test amenities, the VIRTTEX (Digital Check Observe Experiment) and the Analysis and Innovation Middle in Dearborn, Michigan.

• • Ford and Lincoln Co-Pilot360TM driver help applied sciences use a mix of radar, sonar and cameras to sense and interpret the atmosphere, serving to prospects world wide to drive safely and confidently, alerting them to potential collisions, defending pedestrians and cyclists and making routine duties simpler.

• • Driver-assist options are supplemental and don’t substitute the motive force’s consideration, judgment, and want to manage the car. Ford BlueCruise is a hands-free freeway driving function. Solely take away palms from the steering wheel when in a Fingers-Free Blue Zone. At all times watch the highway and be ready to renew management of the car. It doesn’t substitute secure driving. See Proprietor’s Handbook for element and limitations. Requires bought 3-year related service plan with common map updates, FordPass App, and modem activation.

• • Our new BlueCruise expertise* builds upon accessible Clever Adaptive Cruise Management with Cease-and-Go, Lane Centering and Pace Signal Recognition. It permits drivers in Fingers-Free Blue Zones to function their car hands-free whereas being monitored by a driver-facing digicam to verify they’re conserving their eyes on the highway.

• • Ford has pledged to equip a minimal of 95% of all new light-weight autos we produce for the U.S. market with automated emergency braking (AEB) by September 2022. Ford is assembly the dedication forward of time at 96%. We now have additionally dedicated to putting in AEB on autos within the 8,501 to 10,000-pound vary by 2025/26 and have already geared up 62 p.c of these heavier autos with AEB.

• • We developed a Rear Occupant Alert System that provides an “in-vehicle” warning through our SYNC® system. The system is included in all four-door 2021 mannequin yr autos geared up with SYNC within the U.S.

• • Our SYNC in-car connectivity helps occupants to name for help aſter an accident, and may give first responders doubtlessly life-saving data, shortly and efficiently.

• IR: Air High quality > web page 92

• IR: Car/Product Security and High quality > pages 69-73

• IR: Worker Well being, Security, and Wellbeing > pages 62-64

• HRR: Air High quality > web page 30

• HRR: Occupational Well being, Security, and Wellbeing > web page 44

• HRR: Product Security and High quality > web page 46