Ford CEO Jim Farley admitted to driving a Chinese-made electric vehicle (EV) on Monday despite his company previously receiving billions

Jim Farley, the CEO of Ford Motor Company, said Monday on “ The Fully Charged Podcast ” that for the past six months he’s been driving the Xiaomi Speed Ultra 7, the Chinese company’s first electric vehicle. Although he said he doesn’t like to talk much about the competition, he praised both the car and its manufacturer, Xiaomi.

Ford CEO Jim Farley has been driving a Chinese EV over the past six months, calling it “fantastic.” After flying the Xiaomi Speed Ultra 7 (SU7) from Shanghai to Chicago, Farley doesn’t want to give it up.

Ford CEO Jim Farley admitted he has been driving a Xiaomi SU7 for six months and said he "doesn't want to give it up."

"I've had two trips to China the last two years that were literally epiphanies," Farley told the Everything Electric Show in an interview published to YouTube Monday. "The last on

Ford’s CEO has revealed he’s smitten with a Chinese electric sedan he’s been driving for the past six months. Jim Farley described the Xiaomi SU7 as “fantastic” and told the Fully Charged podcast that he didn’t want to give it up.