Posted on 12/07/2021 7:12:38 PM PST by conservative98
Jim Farley and Chris Farley are first cousins. Really.
Have to look at Ford stock tomorrow. It’s near it’s 52 week high, P/E over 28, so not an easy buy decision. But I’ll do some research.
Didn’t a lot full of them catch fire during a hurricane and flood some years ago?
Opposed piston engines.
I hear from some that some of the car manufacturers are tooling up for them.
Until you have an electric vehicle that can go 300-400 miles in all temps and Richard for another 300-400 miles in less than 10 minutes, it’s a non starter other than a commuter vehicle.
Alleged Ford quote: “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
We got the Model T instead.
Faster horses would have been pretty cool.
When GM switches to all-electric, I’ll become a Ford customer.
I’m driving my Jeep Grand Cherokee V-8 hemi from Western PA to Canton Ohio on Friday. No way I’d drive my EV Ford Mach e on that trip.
Tomorrow I’m driving my Mach e to work, 10 miles away. It’s a great commuter car.
Different tools for different jobs.
Whoever wants EV could have it...NOT ME.
As usual, Lefties have NO foresight.
Think about the cumbersome stopping to have the freakin’ car CARGED, instead of just stopping for gas...which is a pain, but far less of a pain that...getting CHARGED.
And, of course, the overload on the electric system.
These are supposed to be brilliant people. Are they serious?
I think NOT.
So far the the clear majority of car buyers have no desire to own or depend on an electric vehicle. Despite coercive government policies Ford and GM will go broke since the huge capital investment in electric vehicles will never return a profit or even cover the cost of the investment.
Even in “urban” environments there are limitations that will kill profitability. Take the taxi industry. To remain profitable most cabs have to be in operation almost constantly with different shifts of drivers. the cost of EVs are almost 2x the cost of comparable vehicles with internal combustion engines. How will a company make a profit if the vehicle is down 8 hours a day to recharge? The cost of a cab ride goes up, less usage, less money.
If a person must depend on his vehicle to be ready when he may need or want it, they will become inherently frustrated with EVs.
EV "advantages" are based on a combination of corporate bullsh!t, government's desire to control the serfs' ability to travel, and credulity along with inability to do simple arithmetic and downright ignorance of those who buy them.
I have a couple of vehicles all of which take less than 5 minutes from getting out of the car at the pumps to driving away with a full tank.
Some people have bought into the hyoe and actually want them. These are people who only drive short distances.
Look at a thruway gas station. say 24 pumps with the average fill up time of 3 minutes to pump the gas and an average of another 5 minutes because of those who pay/shop/etc inside. so 8 minutes. There have been times when I was traveling when all the pumps were full and i had to wait a few minutes for one to free up. Now look at what happens if you go electric and take 40 minutes to get a charge.
YOU NEED 5 TIMES as many charging stations as you had pumps so from 24 pumps you need 120 charging stations just to get the same throughput - Now where do you put these charging stations. I've never seen a gas station with room for another 120 pumps (Except Bucee's) PLUS you'll need a small substation just to handle the electrical demand (or I guess you could have a diesel generator at each charging station.) And that's just one of the problems with EVs
But we have a government that's hell bent on taking the choice away from us.
At least once a month I will put over a thousand miles on my vehicle(s) on a 3 or 4 day weekend going to very remote areas. EVs just can’t handle that.
And yet he is building a $6B EV battery plant a stone’s throw from the SuperTruck factory. Uh huh.
Building solar panels and EV batteries grows the PLA.
Why bankroll “Government Motors” in the meantime?
No way we are near that now.
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