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.
(Excerpt) Read more at chathamjournal.com ...
T gator is a connected rat party member. that’s why he is always ready with op research/propaganda. It’s best not to even respond to the BS he posts.
Ohhh. I see what you did there...
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).
Yes, you did! 😎
It’s not just fires.
It’s everything associated with these damn things.
More ideas from Deep State that are so good they have to be mandated.
You get out of the city, when you have to load the cattle rack, haul a yearling to market, drive across the county to pick up a calf and 400 pounds of calf manna, pulling a trailer with a mower on it, with the a/c on, range starts to be an issue.
0 to 60 acceleration is not the concern. It's a PICK UP, fer god's sake.
From your link:
To give us some perspective about the size of this issue, it is estimated that there are around 16 million electric cars on the road worldwide, and studies have identified nearly 300 EV fires globally between 2010 and 2022. Compare this with ICE vehicle fires and we find that EV vehicle fires are less common of an occurrence,
BTW, a question: What’s the protocol for putting out an EV fire...?
If you don’t know the answer to that and know any firefighters, have a chat.
And prepare to have your ears burned.
Then why us the NFPA having a cow about them, eh?
And why don’t we have the latest revisions to the national electrical code yet...?
Cash for Clunckers 3.0 coming soon...
“Then why us the NFPA having a cow about them, eh?”
Only in your imagination.
“”BTW, a question: What’s the protocol for putting out an EV fire...?”
posted and reposted: water
“The 1989 model year Fiero GT was one very bad-ass sports coupe. The brand damage had been done though and they weren’t going to save it, despite the 89 being a flawless vehicle. If you can get your hands on that last year production run, you’ve got something special.”
1988 was the last year.
“What percentage of existing homes in this country have a 200A service?”
Relevance?
So yeah, 1988.
It may have been on here, but I saw an article where fire departments in Europe (I believe) are bringing open tanker trucks and have cranes to pick up the EV & submerge in water.
the hybrid batteries are much smaller than ev batteries. which is also why on some models people just buy new packs and replace them, themselves, and the hybrid basically runs at top form again.
Oversized electric golf cart fanbois are not amused at these sort of articles.
Don’t worry TeslaGator and the Libtard government plan to prop them up
How many is a lot? Please cite.
How many EV's do you own? Please cite.
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