When Ford chief executive Jim Farley split the company's passenger vehicle business into two parts — one for electric cars, the other for gasoline-powered vehicles — Farley put himself in charge of the electric car business, a division called Model e. The assumption among a lot of industry observers was that the person running the gasoline vehicle businesses, then, was there to nurse that dying technology through its final years.
source https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/21/business/ford-blue-gas-cars/index.html
