Ford Motor Company (F 2.26%) has had a rough couple of years. Tariffs have hurt the bottom line, and Ford's electric vehicle business just never caught on as hoped. The company took a $19.5 billion noncash charge at the end of 2025, including $8.5 billion for planned EV models it had canceled. But give Ford credit for turning lemons into lemonade. The company is using its EV assets to build battery energy storage systems (BESS) for data centers, utilities, and other industrial customers. This new subsidiary ...