Wait, That’s How Much Money Ford Lost for Every Electric Truck Sold

townhall ^ | 1/26/2024 | matt vespa

[bitt]

Electric vehicles are the future, they said. They’re the quintessential pain in the backside that isn’t worth the money and a resource drainer for the working family. Who am I kidding? These cars aren’t for people like us. It’s for rich, wealthy, woke whites who think they’re doing their part in going green. They’re really setting up their families to freeze to death when the battery dies as temperatures dip.

In Canada, one man detailed how these vehicles were the greatest scam of the modern era, given the $130,000-plus investment he sunk into this cockamamie lefty idea. When the EV line costs your company billions, maybe that’s a sign that this goes beyond overhead and research costs—customers don’t want it. For every Ford F-150 Lightning sold, which Joe Biden was infamously photographed driving early in his term, it cost Ford $36,000. So, how is the car giant going to fix this? They will shift their focus toward making more gas-powered cars—the ones that make money (via NY Post):

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEtpUqyWYAA8ARP?format=jpg&name=small

https://greenbuildingelements.com/ford-loses-36000-on-every-f-150-lightning-sold-fires-70-of-ev-workers-ramps-up-gas-production/

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/ford-reduce-f-150-lightning-production-2024-01-19/

[bitt]

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[dfwgator]

But they made up for it in volume.

[SunkenCiv]

• Ford plans to hire Chinese military software supplier for EV factory in US: GOP investigators [01/29/2024]

[bray]

Do you feel good about those subsidies you paid to bribe people into buying these boondoggles?

[PGR88]

Cars are already expensive because that’s how government wants it.

EV’s are just a natural progression of government controls on people -climate fear-monger, higher prices, computer tracking, mass kill-switches, etc...

[moovova]

I'm holding out for the Ford Pride Raptor EV.

[central_va]

rump ranger

[Gene Eric]

Forever committed to Found On Road Dead

[kiryandil]

“Fix Or Repair Daily”

[lurk]

I just drove by a Ford dealership tonight. About every fourth space in the lot had a vehicle in it.

[Gene Eric]

lol

[central_va]

First on race day.

[logi_cal869]

“Ranged”

[rlmorel]

BFL

[SaxxonWoods]

Ford would have lost a lot less per copy if they had built a commuter sedan instead of a pickup. Who came up with that insanity?

[Sequoyah101]

Why don't they make ones that are basic, reliable and most of all AFFORDABLE? They have loaded them with expensive unreliable crap.

Here is a clue. Bring back the Panther. Like driving your living room at 75 mph and 25 mpg. I could not find a tin box that did that well. Simple, reliable, refined and affordable at one time. It had what you needed to get from A to B comfortably and safely. The only bad thing on it was the EATC and blend door motor. Improve that and bring it back for a really decent price.

BTW, it would run like a striped arse ape when you wanted it to.

[dznutz]

Found On Road Dead.
Literally.

[joesbucks]

It’s what saddle mufacturers were saying when the early gas powered internal combustion autos were introduced.

[Spacetrucker]

Ya know, I USED to think having my F-150 wass a good investment...