Posted on 10/22/2024 12:05:12 PM PDT by Red Badger
Ford has this kind of money how?
Undoubtedly, some form of government handout either over or under the table.
“Ford has this kind of money how?”
A $1000 incentive is peanuts.
That still leaves them $55k in the hole on each one!
List price for the F-150 Lightning is around $70,000, so $1,000 per vehicle isn't out of line as far as dealer incentives go.
It’s interesting that the incentive is directly to the dealer, rather than the buyer. I don’t think it’s unusual, though.
Speaking of money a couple I know built a McMansion they couldn’t afford near the Ford Blue Oval City in Tennessee.
The plant is to make batteries and electric cars.
Their reasoning is if they put all their money in a giant McMansion the value will only go to the moon because of the battery plant and all the new, high paying jobs there. Then they can sell the house and retire.
Now much of the building and planned operations at this plant have been suspended.
Oops.
So Starbuck moms drive pickups?
Lots of women drive pickups. My wife loves her RAM 1500.............
NO SALE!
Still NO!
“The plant is to make batteries and electric cars….
…Their reasoning is if they put all their money in a giant McMansion …”
I can honestly say that I’d have seen a big problem with this clever plan.
Christmas/Thanksgiving is coming. A free fruit cake with every Lightning.
At least they’d get one good product.
Some plans are better than others...
With the extended range battery at 131kWh, lets say you pull up to a charger with 20% left and charge up to 80%. That's 79 kWh. You'd be good to get out of there in half an hour at the fastest chargers. Driving 75 mph on the highway (with no load), you'd probably get a real world range of 170 miles before you stop another 30 minutes to charge. One of many reasons a full size EV pickup is impractical.
As opposed to an EV car (smaller battery, better miles per kWh) charging in 15 minutes every 200 miles. A little pre-planning with trips with plenty of chargers (i.e. up and down the eastern seaboard like I did this past summer), means driving and charging an EV is about as fast as driving and filling up a gas car (at least as often as my wife wants to stop and stretch her legs LOL). So we're able to compare charging prices with gas prices on those trips and pick which of our two cars is cheapest to drive (EV car or gas pickup).
But even with that, an EV is practical only if you drive enough miles for the gas savings to be worth it, can charge at home, have two cars so that one car can be a gas car for the times an EV won't do, and don't drive much in the northern cold winter. Anyone who doesn't meet all of those criteria shouldn't consider an EV. That's from a free market and practical standpoint. Not from the warmageddon-cult-government-should-incentivize-or-force-everyone-to-drive-EVs perspective like the Dims do.
While the design appearance is interesting, it is still impractical for what I need.
Does she go to Starbucks every morning?
Never has as far as I know!...................
Does she have 10 cats?
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