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Ford, Geely Held Talks About Bringing Chinese Tech to America

The automakers have discussed a tie-up in Europe, but any U.S. collaboration would be politically fraught

By Stephen Wilmot, Raffaele Huang and Sharon Terlep, WSJ

April 24, 2026

Ford Motor and Chinese automaker Geely held talks this year about a potential U.S. tie-up, but these discussions have stalled.

Ford Motor F -1.02%decrease; red down pointing triangle and Chinese automaker Geely held talks as recently as this year exploring whether the European tie-up they are negotiating could extend into the U.S., a prospect Geely sees as a launchpad into the world’s second-largest vehicle market.

Discussions, which involved Ford potentially licensing Geely’s technology in the U.S., have stalled in recent months, according to people familiar with the talks. The two sides instead are focused on hammering out a deal to share technology and manufacturing capacity in Europe.

Geely, China’s second-largest automaker behind BYD, is eager to expand in the profitable U.S. market, where Chinese automakers are effectively banned. But it faces major hurdles to doing so.

Domestic carmakers view Chinese brands as an existential threat and are asking the Trump administration and Congress to keep them out. The U.S. imposes hefty tariffs on imports of Chinese-made vehicles and bans Chinese connected-vehicle software to keep the cars out of the market.

Meanwhile, Ford Chief Executive Jim Farley last week said that Chinese-made cars shouldn’t be allowed into the U.S., at least until there’s a plan to protect jobs.

A Ford spokesman said the company is committed to protecting its home market, adding that any deal providing a Chinese automaker with an onramp to the U.S. market would be antithetical to that approach. “Our commitment to a level playing field and safeguarding our home market remains absolute,” he said.

“We always keep an open mind when it comes to exploring cooperative opportunities” with other automakers, a Geely spokeswoman said in a statement. “Engaging in constructive industry dialogue is part of how we operate, but we do not comment on rumors or speculations regarding potential partnerships.”

In a recent interview with Fox News, Trump said the 100% tariffs that President Joe Biden maintained on Chinese-made cars were “about the only thing he did good.” However, Trump told a Detroit audience in January that he was open to Chinese cars as long as they were built in the U.S., part of a broader reversal of his previously uncompromising position on America’s top geopolitical rival.

Chinese automakers are trouncing rivals in markets around the world with sleek, high-tech and affordable EVs and hybrids. America’s automakers—including Asian and European ones operating in the U.S.—say they can’t compete on low production costs and vehicle technology that is heavily subsidized by the Chinese government.

Geely Galaxy M9 electric vehicle at the 2026 CES event.

Geely displayed its Galaxy M9 EV at CES in Las Vegas earllier this year. Bridget Bennett/Bloomberg News

A deal to include Geely technology in Ford vehicles would mark the first partnership in the U.S. between Detroit and a Chinese automaker.

A Geely official earlier this year said that the company aimed to expand in the U.S. market in the next few years. The company owns controlling stakes in Swedish brands Volvo and Polestar, which sell vehicles in the U.S. It would like to bring more brands from its stable to the U.S., some of the people said.

The two companies are in talks to share technology and manufacturing capacity in Europe, where Chinese cars are rapidly gaining market share, the people familiar with the discussions said. Geely could use Ford’s plant near Valencia, Spain, to avoid the high tariffs it currently faces on shipments to Europe and make use of Ford’s excess factory capacity, they said.

Discussions about the U.S. started more than a year ago, including Geely licensing its technology to Ford. At one point, the talks envisaged Ford potentially making use of a Geely platform—common structural foundations on which different vehicles can be built—for future models, the people said.

Any U.S. collaboration could represent a political minefield for both companies.

Ford is licensing technology from leading Chinese EV battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology for a $3 billion plant in Michigan. That arrangement has drawn ire from lawmakers and government officials.

Farley said in an interview on Fox News earlier this month that Chinese-made cars should be kept out of the U.S. He later warned that the U.S. and American automakers needed a plan to protect jobs.

“Having a plan before we go fast, either in local production or imports from China, is the most important moment,” Farley said during a media call. “We’re in that moment right now.”

Farley also said that Ford would expand partnerships with Chinese automakers outside the U.S. to bolster its global competitiveness.

The Biden-era “connected-vehicle rule” is starting to bar Chinese software from vehicle systems that link to the internet, as well as carmakers controlled by China. Volvo and Polestar are in discussions with the Trump administration about an exemption to keep their American businesses alive.