Ford blinks on EV production.

[Mark S.]

Who'd a thunk it?

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/26/23934172/ford-12-billion-ev-investment-postpone-q3-earnings

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[Cursed Bronco]

I'm not as pessimistic about the life left of the ICE engine as some people are. It's not going away anytime soon

 

[Bucko]

Who'd a thunk it?

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/26/23934172/ford-12-billion-ev-investment-postpone-q3-earnings

 

[Bucko]

I'm not as pessimistic about the life left of the ICE engine as some people are. It's not going away anytime soon

Not until they make it affordable to the average buyer.

 

[SgtT11B]

I read that over 20% of the people who buy a full EV end up back into an ICE vehicle.

 

[RPYLE50]

Additionally, ICE's will not really start to go away until the infrastructure to support EV charging is built out much better across the US. Especially in rural areas. Additionally, who wants to "fill up" their EV and wait for 30 minutes to an hour? Just my experience going on a cross-country trip in my father's Tesla S.

 

[o0260o]

Color me surprised. I guess the Venn diagram of luxury pick-up truck buyers and $50K EVs doesn't have much overlap.

 

[Excape]

After my Bronco Sport was lost in production, I tried a Hybrid Maverick. It was a disaster and I sold it went back to the last normally-aspirated pickup I could buy, a new Nissan Frontier Pro4X. Almost $50K out-the-door and ~20MPG, but it is reliable without the hybrid issues and turbo worries.
Very happy to stay simple ICE.

 

[Robins21]

No EV for us either. Long live ICE.

 

[Bluejaye]

I'm waiting for Hydrogen Fuel Cell vehicles so I don't have to wait a half hour "filling up" like a battery requires.

 

[wireman]

I'm waiting for Hydrogen Fuel Cell vehicles so I don't have to wait a half hour "filling up" like a battery requires.

If you can find a Hydrogen station. Infrastructure will be worse than the EV's for quite sometime.

 

[Bluejaye]

If you can find a Hydrogen station. Infrastructure will be worse than the EV's for quite sometime.

No doubt, but I wasn't implying it was going to be any time soon. Just that people are waking up to the con job of "electric" vehicles when there are much better alternatives that didn't get the Democratic support that was shoved down our throats.

 

[wireman]

No doubt, but I wasn't implying it was going to be any time soon. Just that people are waking up to the con job of "electric" vehicles when there are much better alternatives that didn't get the Democratic support that was shoved down our throats.

Absolutely.

 

[Barry S.]

Who'd a thunk it?

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/26/23934172/ford-12-billion-ev-investment-postpone-q3-earnings

I thunk it. I have no intention of buying an electric vehicle. If I did, I have the luxury of a garage to charge it overnight. Now picture the millions of vehicles parked curbside bumper to bumper in cities. How are they expected to charge their cars? And no I don't believe global warming is man made. Mars is also warming. Must be all those SUV's the Martians are driving.

 

[Bronclahoma]

Not until they make it affordable to the average buyer.

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