Hope this is a win for automakers...but somehow I feel Biden will say....wait...we’ll give you lotsa money so you won’t be losing money...but really you will still be losing money money. It’s kinda like having a second set of books....he chuckled.
I told the salesman at my local dealership(Chrysler) that it’ll be a cold day in hell before I buy an electric vehicle. If necessary, I’ll buy Toyota who still plans to keep some ICE vehicles around.
My guess is that overseas slave labor is at the top of their list.
Ford coming to it’s senses? A boondoggle too far? Ford may sense a coming regime change that will no longer subsidize the crazy push for EV production ( EVs that no one wants).
For me, this is the first reporting by fake news
...is the transition to electric vehicles has become a major sticking point in a United Auto Workers strike...
In order to manufacture batteries for vehicles one need a lot of cobalt. I recommend everyone research cobalt mining. To understand why battery factories start and stop here in America. Unmentioned problems with raw materials.
I don’t understand this EV idiocy in the traditional sense.
I understand it in the consumer sense, in the engineering sense, etc., but in the traditional sense, in the infrastructure sense it completely and totally baffles me.
In the traditional sense, I think things like: “California, and other states want to ban the sale of ALL ICE vehicles by 2035. There are even people advocating that the deadline be moved up. How can they do this without the infrastructure in place, the charging stations, the battery manufacture, but most importantly, the energy creation infrastructure and the transmission infrastructure? How? How can they do this, it is the equivalent of running full speed towards a cliff, the whips on our backs, and...simply...jumping off. It will be a disaster, the economy will fully fail, and millions of people are going to be destitute as a result. How? How can any thinking person advocate this approach?”
So, I have to think of it all un-traditionally.
I have to throw out the notion that they want it to work. The idea that they want the infrastructure in place. The idea that they believe better technology is a move forward.
When I do that, and think in un-traditional terms, the only thing that makes any sense at all is that the people pushing this know full well what it will do to the economy and the people who work in that economy.
They WANT it to happen.
They WANT it to fail in the sense of what we view as “useful technology” and advances.
They are pushing this, not for any stupid and insane climate impact reason. They are doing this to control the movement of people, to isolate them from the greater population. And they are doing it to destroy society and the consumer economy so they can “rebuild” it in their image of what it should be.
And their image of what it “should be” is smaller, fewer people, less freedom, and greater government control.
Trump’s message will resonate. “Pause” away! They need to get it and vote for thr policies that will help.
Shawn Fein really wants to finished his job of getting automakers out of the USA.
UAW car jobs are down 90% since late 70ties.
Shawn is going to eliminate the reminding 10%.
Ford should put the 385-series engines back into production with updated EFI and better breathing heads. Winner.
Consideration number one: Nobody except Starbuck moms want them.
“Is Ford deciding they have lost enough money on producing EVs that the people have decided they do not want?”
But what do ‘the people’ (or customers) have to do with corporate decisions?
Biden’s visit to Ford today you can bet he and his boys will be talking to the Ford people about it.
aka an or else order