Ford Motor Co. will separate its legacy auto and burgeoning battery-electric vehicle businesses into two “distinct, but strategically interdependent” units within the company, the Dearborn automaker said Wednesday. The move amounts to a major organizational restructuring within the Blue Oval that reflects the changes needed to scale up an EV business that can effectively compete against startups — namely, Tesla Inc. — and legacy manufacturers alike. It is not a spinoff, CEO Jim Farley says, but the creation of new businesses — dubbed Ford Blue and Ford Model e — with separate design, supply ch…