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Wait, That’s How Much Money Ford Lost for Every Electric Truck Sold
townhall ^ | 1/26/2024 | matt vespa

Posted on 01/29/2024 8:12:40 PM PST by 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/

(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: 000; 36; automotive; bidenvoters; bloggers; driverreturnsonfire; driverreturnsonfoot; ecars; electrictruck; ev; evfinancialloss; firetraps; fixorrepairdaily; ford; foundonroaddead; incompetence; notnews; uaw
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To: bitt

It is so obvious that EVs are a loser, that even the shoe-shine man can see it. Sort of like housing prices in 2007 before the mortgage market collapsed. At that time I was trying to figure out the safe way to make money off the OBVIOUSLY impending disaster.
Well, the shoe-shine man is a rarity these days. But someone is going to make money off the demise of the EV and green-energy nonsense. Maybe it will be some kind of new Cash-for-Clunkers scam/scheme; maybe it will be a new SuperFund to recycle all the used-up carcasses.
Just figure on it being really costly to the taxpayers. And if you can get the inside track from the legislation coming down in DC you could “get in on the ground floor”.
(I wish I was kidding about this.)


41 posted on 01/30/2024 7:17:33 AM PST by Honest Nigerian
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To: bitt

Too late for Ford for me. I’ll never buy another after 40 years.


42 posted on 01/30/2024 8:14:41 AM PST by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: Sequoyah101

Panther? Never heard of it.


43 posted on 01/30/2024 8:17:51 AM PST by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: bert

“The reality is that the sedan’s you note do not sell and are thus costly rather than profitable.”

Sounds like the secret is to ignore EVs completely then. This is easy, for now.


44 posted on 01/30/2024 8:24:27 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: linMcHlp

Those people have all been dead for decades.


45 posted on 01/30/2024 8:25:21 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: subterfuge

I never heard of it either. Looked it up. It’s a Canadian Crown Vic.


46 posted on 01/30/2024 8:29:10 AM PST by shooter223 (the government should fear the citizens......not the other way around)
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To: Gene Eric

You do know that Ford spelled backwards stands for Drive Return On Foot, or one I just thought of, Drive Return On Fire.


47 posted on 01/30/2024 9:08:12 AM PST by MAAG (The LORD does not choose sides, HE is a side.)
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To: dznutz

I’ve literally driven a million and a half miles in f250 and f350 4x4s since 1979

Only issues were driver occasional abuse by other employees


48 posted on 01/30/2024 11:10:52 AM PST by digger48
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To: bitt

To be fair, my husband’s regular gas-guzzling Ranger cost the Ford Motor Company several thousand dollars.

That’s because something in the transmission blew and everything under the hood had to be replaced. This happened after he had driven it less than 100 miles. Ford headquarters wanted the entire blown transmission and engine sent back for analysis. The local dealer lent him a Mustang to use for the two months it took to fix the truck.

The new engine and transmission have several thousand miles on them now. Whatever the issue that caused the explosion, it seems to have been a one-time deal.


49 posted on 01/30/2024 11:42:27 AM PST by exDemMom (Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
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To: shooter223

That makes sense now thanks.


50 posted on 01/30/2024 3:14:19 PM PST by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: digger48

Internal combustion driven Fords are fine, it’s the EV’s of all makes that are suspect.


51 posted on 01/30/2024 3:40:51 PM PST by dznutz
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To: dznutz

Those EV trucks are crap, at any price


52 posted on 01/30/2024 3:47:47 PM PST by digger48
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To: Frankss
Yep, My 2011 F150 is a sweetheart and I love her like a rock. Air cond will chill ya on a hot Arizona day. But the heat is non existent. Iv read the problem is the blend door. Searched on the fix and it seems you have to almost pull the dashboard out to get at it.
I'm hesitant to do that, so I wear a coat on any morning drive.
53 posted on 01/30/2024 4:41:41 PM PST by ExSafecracker (. . . FJB . . .)
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To: dfwgator

I wonder if the somewhat outrageous prices on most EVs were planned so that the poor-but-honest individual would not be able to buy something that would likely only bring him/her to grief sooner or later. I can’t afford one, but then I sure don’t want one anyway, although I will admit it would fill my purposes 99% of the time as transportation. BY the time I had a charging port(not sure there are any public ones here) and bought the cheapest EV available, I still could not afford it. I like heat & A/C at appropriate times also & my aged used car provides both at reasonable cost.


54 posted on 01/30/2024 7:59:01 PM PST by oldtech
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To: central_va

In the case of an EV, it could be spelled DORD.


55 posted on 01/30/2024 8:00:48 PM PST by oldtech
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To: oldtech

That was an alternate description for First-on-Race-Day.


56 posted on 01/30/2024 8:04:02 PM PST by oldtech
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To: moovova

Does its “trans”mission have a reverse gear - to back into messy terrain?


57 posted on 01/31/2024 4:54:39 AM PST by omni-scientist
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To: omni-scientist
LOL. There's a reason the Pride Raptor automatically comes with a trailer hitch....


58 posted on 01/31/2024 8:32:15 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: kiryandil; Gene Eric

Effed-over rebuilt Dodge


59 posted on 01/31/2024 3:34:49 PM PST by cport (How can political capital be spent on a bunch of ingrates)
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To: cport

THERE’S a new one!


60 posted on 01/31/2024 4:35:14 PM PST by kiryandil (Free Zaluzhny!)
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