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1 posted on 03/22/2023 10:50:40 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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Not to worry, taxpayers will bail them out.


2 posted on 03/22/2023 10:51:39 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Seems as if everything is going according to plan. The most important thing is that they have a very high E.S.G. score.


4 posted on 03/22/2023 10:56:06 AM PDT by Tea Party Terrorist (Eat the Rich)
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Politically Correct is the Road to Poverty and Ruin.

Freedom and the Free Market is the Road to Wealth and Independence.

- "The Wealth of nations", Adam Smith.

- As evidenced by America in the 1800's.


6 posted on 03/22/2023 10:56:43 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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Go woke, go broke.


7 posted on 03/22/2023 10:57:36 AM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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Apparently, every manufacturer has decided to go electric at once. There was a news piece on this morning saying there were 130 manufacturers in the game, some of them brand new to cars. I suspect there is enough market for one or two manufacturers, but not three or four. Especially, not a hundred or more. Briefly Rivian was the most financially endowed company in the country, and they’d not yet made a vehicle. We’re seeing electric hysteria. This will end badly for everyone involved. I suspect that even market leader Tesla will not be here in ten years. Good luck even keeping your Tesla running after they go belly-up. They’ll all be bricked by some coding error. We are looking at the modern version of the tulip bulb crisis.


8 posted on 03/22/2023 10:58:57 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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Well, as they say...

Stupid is as stupid does.

Stupid is going along with what the democrats demand, and the democrats demand that, climate change (stupid in itself) be addressed. Stupid all around.


9 posted on 03/22/2023 11:00:12 AM PDT by adorno
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How can they afford to absorb billions of losses in developing electric cars?

Granted that there are costs involved in developing new product lines, in any line of business.

But $6 billion is serious money.

Then there’s the still unanswered question as to whether people are going to buy these electric cars in big numbers.


13 posted on 03/22/2023 11:05:24 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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Isn’t there someone working at Ford who saw this coming?


15 posted on 03/22/2023 11:05:26 AM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman! Assumed that rates would go down, or wouldn't go higher.)
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"The analyst expects Ford to reveal Thursday Model e operating losses of $6 billion for 2022."


17 posted on 03/22/2023 11:08:10 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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Aside from EV leader Tesla, no major automakers are expected to generate meaningful profits from electric vehicles for at least several years, as the industry works to increase EV output and manufacturing scale. That’s particularly true of EVs like Ford’s, as mass-market vehicles typically generate lower profits than luxury models.

Talk about turd polishing!

18 posted on 03/22/2023 11:08:35 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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Awwwwwww! Good.


20 posted on 03/22/2023 11:09:09 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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Just like the Soviet Union, our DC green-woke central planners is in a race between finally achieving our (neo) Marxist ideology, and bankruptcy/collapse


22 posted on 03/22/2023 11:09:55 AM PDT by PGR88
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And expect a taxpayer bailout even though there is no sound market for large scale EV production.


23 posted on 03/22/2023 11:09:59 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Rufus T Firefly lives on. )
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The carmakers push EVs incessantly on TV and the people don’t seem to want them. The same could be said for the vaccine. TV itself is very annoying with all the garbage the woke corporations under oligarch pressure try to push down the people’s throats.


24 posted on 03/22/2023 11:10:19 AM PDT by MDLION ("Trust in the Lord with all your heart" -Proverbs 3:5)
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Governments will move forward with EVs crap even if they bankrupts the taxpayers


25 posted on 03/22/2023 11:11:01 AM PDT by butlerweave
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“Rosner believes Ford could be incurring gross losses of about $9,000 per EV sold”

Probably not including what they are foregoing by not selling that customer a regular vehicle that they could sell at a profit.


26 posted on 03/22/2023 11:11:20 AM PDT by Boogieman
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Don’t you love the sing songy flair of the piece telling us EV makers are all going to go bankrupt?


27 posted on 03/22/2023 11:11:42 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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Ford and GM are on their way to becoming ZERO stocks, I personally would buy stock in Toyota which isn’t going the EV route of all the major auto makers.
Goodbye Ford, you had a great run. If Hank the Deuce were here , this would not be happening.


28 posted on 03/22/2023 11:12:15 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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Communists think making a profit is a crime.


30 posted on 03/22/2023 11:13:30 AM PDT by bray (Order at TheRepublicofTexas.store)
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Remember when these guy’s job number one was to built the best affordable GAS pickup truck in the world?


33 posted on 03/22/2023 11:15:24 AM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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