Posted on 08/18/2023 12:09:28 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Ford’s CEO apparently got complaints from electric vehicle (EV) owners during his recent cross-country road trip.
While on his journey, Jim Farley drove one of the company’s electric pickup trucks, Fox Business reported Friday, noting he called the act of charging the vehicle “pretty challenging.”
“It was a really good reality check of the challenges of what our customers go through and the importance of fast charging and what we’re going to have to do to improve the charging experience,” Farley stated in a video clip posted Sunday:
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This moron should immediately abandon all ev BS and tell government to shove it.
Is “charging experience” MBA terminology for “long wait”?
Hmmm if only there was a type of engine that could be refueled in only a few minutes....
Now that would be good for road trips. Any everything else too.
Maybe Ford should produce something like that.
But they - Ford and GM in particular - plunged ahead (spurred on by big tax credits to buyers) with massive EV builing spree and never themselves looked how the grid and availability of charging stattions outside the home could accomodate their EV customers. Would they have built millions of gasoline powered cars if they did not see a prevalence of the availablity of gasoline? They just didn’t care about ANYTHING other than getting Biden’s EV subsidies for themselves and their customers, period.
Hey mister, can you spare a cup of electricity?
One could look at it as an opportunity for homeowners along highways to install their own charging stations, then advertise on Facebook, etc. Would be like Air B&B. Come in and have a coffee, computer access, etc. while your vehicle charges for an hour. $150. Owners could schedule throughout the day.
Ping
Honestly I think it’s bad parenting.
Like Elizabeth Holmes or Sam Bank Fraud, when you’re raised without consequences, you start to believe that anything that you do will just work out, no matter if it’s stupid, wrong, or evil.
Anybody think it was coincidental that was filmed while he was driving past a field of windmills?
They can call that the “stupid fee.”
As if our overlords cared about our convenience.
“They just didn’t care about ANYTHING other than getting Biden’s EV subsidies for themselves and their customers, period.”
I think a more accurate description is the EPA told them “That is a nice car company you have there, it would be a shame if something happened to it.”
In order to have an EV recharge in an hour, you'd need to install a Level 4 DC fast charger.
DC Ultra Fast Chargers, or Level IV, are somewhat new to the industry. As DC quick charge station technology improves, the price continues to drop. However, the average finished project for one station will still cost $50,000-$100,000.
You'd have to charge a lot more than $150/hr to recoup those costs...
You'd never make up the money you saved on gas buy buying an additional electric car.
And for a while I was living in downtown San Diego. Street parking only. No charging outlets at all. So if you have to do any sort of commuting and don't want to spend half your day on public transportation alongside various drug addicts, degenerates, violent criminals, and homeless masturbators, you can't own an electric car.
Of course, none of this matters. They're going to force electric cars on us kicking and screaming and it'll be the only form of personal transportation that we'll be allowed to "own" (because we'll never truly "own" them).
Bonnie and Clyde did pretty well in a 34 Ford V8!
As did my parents, not for the same reasons!
Plus building these over stuffed golf carts requires far fewer parts and therefore the staff to make them.
At least it shows their self-esteem is off the charts high.
“I think a more accurate description is the EPA told them “That is a nice car company you have there, it would be a shame if something happened to it.”
I don’t think anyone at the EPA said that to them. I don’t think they needed to. The Biden green subsidies and tax credits were incentive enooug, they thought.
AND feeds all the plants on planet Earth. C02 is PLANT FOOD.
Perhaps this guy should copy what some EV auto owners are trying. Put a gasoline powered electricity generator in the truck bed. Heck, he could drive up and down the country charging EVs that have run out of energy.
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