[Impala64ssa]

Don't know if it will finish off Ford, they said the same thing about the Edsel disaster in 1959, but it will have a negative impact to say the least.

More and more the evidence shows that EVs are, at best too cost inefficient and won't have any positive effect on the environment, if not a straight up scam.

And it's peculiar how some Ford engineers are downplaying potentially dangerous problems with the braking systems on their F 150EV. Have they learned anything from the Pinto exploding gas tank fiasco?

And what's with the Mustard Mach E? Sounds like "mocky" an old Jewish slur. As if it harkens back to Henry Ford's anti Semitic proclivities. Their Marketing Dept should've thought this through a little better. Probably some DEI hire ignorant of history came up with this bright idea. Speaking of which how ironic that this was their slogan in the late 60's-70's

[plain talk]

“could now close their doors forever!”

Forever? :-)

[TexasGator]

“And it’s peculiar how some Ford engineers are downplaying potentially dangerous problems with the braking systems on their F 150EV.”

What braking problem?

[joshua c]

i think the battery bus where all the passengers pedal to charge the battery shows great promise

also uber rickshaw will be a big hit

all kinds of investment opportunities that are far superior to the gas cars

[CapnJack]

If anything, Ford is airing out their problems so as to get a big juicy Gov’t Bail Out.

[dynachrome]

Not anywhere else in the news?

[Jeff Chandler]

Ford is losing nearly 36,000 dollars on each EV they built

They were hoping to make up for it in volume?

[BobL]

The question isn’t what people want to drive, but rather whether the wishes of drivers will be strong enough to change the soon-to-be policy of our Fascist government in FORCING people to only buy EVs.

[longfellowsmuse]

Ah the Ford Pinto. My mother had a powder blue Ford Pinto wagon. We were one of the lucky ones, no exploding. Friends down the street were not so lucky, theirs exploded into a ball of flames on the Ford lot at the exact moment they were trying to negotiate a trade in.

[redfreedom]

I got an Amazon package the other day that traveled most of the way by Amazon’s own motor carrier. I wondered if Bezos is a huge lefty, then why doesn’t he insist his own motor carriers use EV’s?

The answer is simple, he wants to profit, and the complete unreliability of an EV would cut severely into those profits. Packages would arrive late, transportation costs would soar out of this world and Amazon would go under, just like Ford might be doing.

Just about every scam the left tries fails sooner or later. Hopefully election fraud will be one of those that fail, and I mean real soon.

[Paladin2]

Ford fairly recently layed off most of their ICE vehicle engineers.

Sounded stupid at the time.

Now it’s a totally retarded move.

Hopefully my currently on order, ‘24 ICE F-150 will still be built in the next 6 months.

It’s likely my last F-150 in any event.

[Churchillspirit]

Wish Ford would pay attention to their gas driven cars.

Been without my Ford Fiesta for seven weeks - awaiting a replacement part.

[Boomer]

I don’t know how they didn’t see this coming. EV’s will become more normal someday but it has to be a slow gradual transition taking decades. People will keep their cars for decades so any new or good used vehicle has to last and be affordable to fix as they age.

I see hybrids becoming more commonplace long before EV’s.

The bottleneck is battery technology. When they are easy on the environment, charge fast (under 10 minute), affordable to swap out, and last for at least 15 years, then we see EV’s hit their stride in the consumer market.

[Myrddin]

And it's peculiar how some Ford engineers are downplaying potentially dangerous problems with the braking systems on their F 150EV. Have they learned anything from the Pinto exploding gas tank fiasco?

Brake problems are not new to F150 trucks. 2013->2015 (including my 2015 F150 SuperCrew) have a defect where the brake booster/master cylinder fails. All of the brake fluid gets sucked into the vacuum system and passes out the exhaust. The first thing the driver experiences is the brake pedal goes to the floor....no brakes. Fortunately, that event occurred in my driveway. Unaware of the class defect, I put a full bottle of brake fluid in. The brakes returned for a couple minutes, then a big, steamy plume came out of the exhaust. Brake pedal to the floor again.

I did some research and learned there was a recall on 2013/2014 F150 for the problem, but not 2015. I contacted Ford. They hooked me up with customer service. I had my truck towed to the dealer where they confirmed the brake booster/master cylinder failure. Ford replaced the failed parts at their expense. We were lucky that it didn't happen when we were coming off an 80 MPH freeway to an offramp. Others weren't so lucky.

[POWG]

Tesla had a terrible 3rd quarter but still had a net profit margin of 7%. That includes a crazy amount of new factory construction, virtually no corporate long term debt and 26 billion dollars cash in the bank. The problem for Ford and the other companies is they need to make better cars. Tesla’s average cost to build a car is about $37,000. Why can’t Ford and the other companies do that?