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Bidenflation: Ford Boosts Price of Electric F-150 Lightning Truck Due to ‘Significant Material Cost Increases’
Breitbart ^ | 08/10/2022 | Lucas Nolan

Posted on 08/10/2022 9:51:13 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Ford is increasing the starting prices of its electric F-150 Lightning truck by as much as $8,500 due to “significant material cost increases and other factors.”

CNBC reports that Ford said on Tuesday that it would be increasing the starting prices of its electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck due to “significant material cost increases and other factors.” The automaker said that the price increases, which are between $6,000 and $8,500, will not impact customers who have already ordered the vehicle and are awaiting delivery. President Joe Biden infamously test drove an electric F-150 in 2021. Biden shared his opinion on the truck, saying ““This sucker’s quick.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: automotive; cost; electric; f150; ford
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To: ChicagoConservative27

All of those rare earths mined by child slaves, poisoning rivers and ground water, stripped forests - this is the Green Dream?


41 posted on 08/10/2022 11:25:11 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Charles Payne on the cost of Green. At the 1 min 30 mark to 3 min 55 mark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqQC7FY4sVo


42 posted on 08/10/2022 11:29:00 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

it won’t qualify for the rebate before or after.. to expensive.

honestly it sounds like the rats rebate hardly applies to any EVs.


43 posted on 08/10/2022 11:41:21 AM PDT by cableguymn
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To: V_TWIN

Size of the battery pack.
The battery cost is typically a YUGE percentage of the vehicle cost.


44 posted on 08/10/2022 11:42:51 AM PDT by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Biden’s giving folks who can afford $60,000 for a car a big tax break for buying electric. Must be nice to have that much extra money to get ‘help’ from Taxpayers... Corrupt white liberal ‘elites’ in DC take care of their own.


45 posted on 08/10/2022 11:43:01 AM PDT by GOPJ (FBI thugs cracked the safe for a secret that would make MAGA turn on Trump. Period. Evil's afoot.)
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To: Mr Rogers

I constantly see Camrys going through the auction north of 300K..

hell the onion had a piece about Toyota recalling the damn things because “you should have bought a new car by now” a decade ago..


46 posted on 08/10/2022 11:45:32 AM PDT by cableguymn
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hmmm…about as much as the tax rebate.
Coincidence? I think not.


47 posted on 08/10/2022 11:46:28 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: cableguymn
It will take a battalion of attorneys and accountants to analyze which battery packs meet the limitations on manufacture location.

New requirements include that the cars must be assembled in North America and that materials and “critical minerals” in the battery must come from the US or a country with a free trade agreement with the US.

48 posted on 08/10/2022 11:47:36 AM PDT by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: nascarnation

if memory serves me right.. China controls all of the cobalt.


49 posted on 08/10/2022 11:54:28 AM PDT by cableguymn
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To: nascarnation

You mean the battery that will absolutely have to be replaced eventually at the cost of no telling how many more thousands of dollars......THAT battery?


50 posted on 08/10/2022 11:59:24 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: V_TWIN

As the consumer gets wise about these things, there will be a lot of money being made diagnosing how much life remains in a used car battery because it will have a large impact on the remaining value of the vehicle.


51 posted on 08/10/2022 12:01:18 PM PDT by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: Hammerhead

I will buy this electric F-150 with my subsidy of $7,500
I am short the rest so I will drive the truck around a while telling everyone how cool it is then default on the loan and have it repo’d....


52 posted on 08/10/2022 12:51:18 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hippie Dippies: No mining in the US for the battery elements!


53 posted on 08/10/2022 12:52:22 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: butlerweave

A recent test had the EV Ford F150 pull a small RV trailer 83 miles before running out of ga...err...electrons.


54 posted on 08/10/2022 1:00:00 PM PDT by moovova
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To: moovova
While this info is in regards to tesla I can't imagine it being a whole lot different for these trucks
55 posted on 08/10/2022 1:04:31 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: V_TWIN

So you get a Fox News report at the charging station? Cool...


56 posted on 08/10/2022 1:06:03 PM PDT by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Not much real effect ... just pimps and broke-back cowboys will be affected.


57 posted on 08/10/2022 1:13:37 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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To: V_TWIN

“The 2023 F-150 Lightning will now range from $47,000 to $97,000”

I’m rebuilding a 1948 Chevy 3/4 ton. Will have a 420 HP 350/5.7L, a 4 speed automatic 700 R4, and yes, disc breaks. Total cost will be about $16,000 and yes it will be Highway geared.

I guarantee it will still be on the road 100 years from now.


58 posted on 08/10/2022 1:37:33 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown
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To: nascarnation

Better than cnn......barely


59 posted on 08/10/2022 2:26:36 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: DaxtonBrown

Nice! 👍


60 posted on 08/10/2022 2:27:13 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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