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Nolte: Ford’s EV Division Lost $1.3B in Q1 — That’s $132K per Car!
Breitbart ^ | 04/29/2024 | JOHN NOLTE

Posted on 04/29/2024 6:03:44 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Ford’s electric vehicle (EV) division lost $1.3 billion in the first quarter of 2024, which adds up to a $132,000 loss for each of the 10,000 EVs sold.

Sales of Ford EVs also plunged by 20 percent compared to last year, and “its revenue plunged 84% to about $100 million, which Ford attributed mostly to price cuts for EVs across the industry.”

Ford expects losses on its Model e to hit $5 billion by the end of the year.

More:

The losses go far beyond the cost of building and selling those 10,000 cars, according to Ford. Instead the losses include hundreds of millions being spent on research and development of the next generation of EVs for Ford. Those investments are years away from paying off.

The company said it is its “intention” to be have EV pricing cover the actual costs of building each EV, rather than covering all the research and development costs, within the next 12 months. But a price war among EVs for about a year and a half has made even that measure of profitability very difficult said Ford CFO John Lawler. He said while Ford has removed about $5,000 in cost on each Mustang Mach-E, “revenue is dropping faster than we can take out the cost.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: division; electric; electricvehicle; electricvehicles; ev; evs; ford; gobroke; gowoke; lost; vehicle
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1 posted on 04/29/2024 6:03:44 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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The taxpayer lost 132k per car.


2 posted on 04/29/2024 6:07:35 AM PDT by xoxox
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A friend said he should have done his homework before he bought the Ford F-150 Lightning it’s only good for around town and he can’t even take it his Cottage , no place to charge and he can’t even get rid of it


3 posted on 04/29/2024 6:07:52 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yeah, but they’ll make it up in volume. /sarc


4 posted on 04/29/2024 6:11:35 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: ChicagoConservative27; All

Thread BUMP


5 posted on 04/29/2024 6:12:16 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: xoxox

Biden and his goons don’t care...


6 posted on 04/29/2024 6:12:28 AM PDT by GOPJ (.Has Nancy Pelosi called for the leader of Hamas to step down yet? If not, why not?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Vote this piece of cr** out of office and get all these anti-gas measures reversed....from drilling to building cars, appliancews. Time to go after your Congress people...and governors like Kochul.


7 posted on 04/29/2024 6:17:35 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: T.B. Yoits

China’s economy is collapsing they’re cutting prices on everything so expect tons of very cheap EVs to come flaming in ,LOL


8 posted on 04/29/2024 6:17:59 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Go woke, go broke.
Go green, no profits to be seen.

(That’s the best I can do.)


9 posted on 04/29/2024 6:18:35 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m considering going to my local Ford dealer and making them an offer on an EV. If they’ll pay me $100,000 to not buy one, they’ll save $32,000!


10 posted on 04/29/2024 6:45:23 AM PDT by GMMC0987
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To: ChicagoConservative27
The most milquetoast Mustang ever:


11 posted on 04/29/2024 6:49:16 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Another Democrat success story.


12 posted on 04/29/2024 7:08:05 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: butlerweave

Do not trust your friend with any decisions


13 posted on 04/29/2024 7:12:03 AM PDT by iamgalt
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To: xoxox
The taxpayer lost 132k per car

As soon as I saw the title, that's exactly what I thought.

👍


14 posted on 04/29/2024 7:14:33 AM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: T.B. Yoits

Can’t remember where I first heard this, but someone was questioned about profits & loss & let it be mentioned that while there was a loss on each unit, they could make it up on volume. I believe it was not mentioned in a serious tone.


15 posted on 04/29/2024 8:08:38 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: Jeff Chandler

What an abomination to call that thing a “Mustang”

Only Woke idiots could be so stupid as to name it that


16 posted on 04/29/2024 8:14:02 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: butlerweave

[Ford F-150 Lightning]

Hopefully he can mow around it once the battery goes bad

It should make a great fort for the kids


17 posted on 04/29/2024 8:16:24 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Jeff Chandler
Now for a little eye bleach so the children can see a REAL Mustang (from back when America was a country)


18 posted on 04/29/2024 8:25:06 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: butlerweave

I believe that. Once you buy on of those stupid things, you’ll never get rid of it. We’ll have a graveyard of dead and useless EV vehicles.


19 posted on 04/29/2024 8:35:22 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: SaveFerris

not a Ford person, but that is pretty sweet.


20 posted on 04/29/2024 8:36:05 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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