Posted on 07/30/2023 11:01:39 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Ford Motor recently announced it is slashing prices on its F-150 Lightning, an electric vehicle the company rolled out in 2021.
The Lightning now carries a suggested retail price of $49,995, about $10,000 lower than its previous recommended price tag ($59,974), a reduction the company says is possible because of lower “battery raw material costs and continued work on scaling production and cost.”
It’s certainly possible that reduced overhead from battery minerals and production costs played a role in Ford’s decision to trim its price tag by nearly 20 percent, but that may be only half the story.
Several reports show EVs are not exactly flying off dealership lots. In fact, there’s a glut of them.
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How many EV’s do you own? Please cite.
Hybrid vehicle fires ranked first with 3474.5 fires per 100,000 vehicle sales (16,051 fires). Next came ICE cars with 1520.9 fires per 100,000 sales (199,533 fires). BEVs were at the very bottom of this calamity heap with only 25.1 fires per 100,000 vehicle sales (52 fires).
How many ICE vehicles spontaneously combusted, ignoring negligent maintenance? Please Cite.
The oversized electric golf cart fanboi emerges!
TeslaGator battery butt humper
Cry like a baby 😆
We test-drove a Jeep (are leasing one now, gas-powered). The salesman seemed anxious to sell this thing, which did not have the pickup or power of our gas Jeep.
Looks like I hit the mark
Lol 🤣
If you don’t know the answer to that and know any firefighters, have a chat.
And prepare to have your ears burned.
Nephew is a fireman. They REDUCE the class D fire enough to tow it to a ground pit. Once in the earthen pit it's left to burn for up to 3 months.
More like the Pinto. Dangerous at any speed.
“ Not only do EVs require an astonishing amount of mining—an estimated 500,000 pounds of rock and minerals must be upturned to make a single battery, physicists point out—but their carbon footprint isn’t much smaller than gas-powered cars.
It turns out that EVs actually require a lot more CO2 to produce than gas-powered cars. EVs can make that up, but it takes a great deal of time because EVs also often run on electricity generated from fossil fuels.”
Child slave labor to mine all that rock will cut costs for consumers I’m sure 😏
The reasons you cite are why I don’t want to invest in a new work truck…they’re truly rolling computers. The 02 F350 I have is totally rebuildable.
Big bonfires coming from exploding batteries.
A few years ago, Chevy told owners of the EV Chevy Volt to not park it in their garage because of the fire hazard.
“hybrids are the best” and the Toyota Avalon is the best of the best hybrid. Pure EV’s are trouble and we knew that in 1970. Politicians push gimmicks and private industry goes along to get funding.
I have never seen fire articles on hybrids the way we see then on full ev vehicles. Priuses and hybrid camry and corolla hybrids are a safe stable platform thats had 20+ years of refinement. The Honda hybrids are stavle as well.
“Does the weight damage secondary roads?”
Of course, weight kills roads, and EV’s wear out the much more expensive low rolling resistant tires 30%+ faster. They are more expensive to insure. So don’t believe all the hype that they are way less expensive to operate. They are, but not to the degree what leftist Greenies want you to believe. Pay more, insure for more, somewhat less to maintain, I’m not sure it is even a brake even proposition.
That right there is comforting.
Just think how excited vandals will be.....just cause.
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