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Ford Will Take $19.5 Billion Hit as It Rolls Back E.V. Plans (www.nytimes.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/climate@slrpnk.net
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Basically, the huge-personal-truck model doesn't work so well with batteries. Making them cheap enough means making them small...which Ford didn't try to do

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[–] 50 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Ford should roll back truck plans, not EV plans.

most truck drivers don't fucking need a truck, and might be just as happy with smaller vehicles if Ford hadn't stopped fucking building them.

Focus and Fiesta were great cars, especially in hatch/wagon form. Should be good enough for most people.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Ford should roll back truck plans, not EV plans.

    Then they will go broke, the F150 is one of the world's best selling vehicles and the only reason why Ford isn't bankrupt.

    Focus and Fiesta were great cars

    Bullshit, they were awful, because of cheaply designed automatic transmissions that failed repeatedly and Ford kept selling them for 7 years. Even in the sport Focus, they had major engine failures due to poor head gasket design. Focus and Fiesta were top sellers worldwide, but Ford so badly fucked their customers they got out of the car business, now only making the Mustang Boomermobile.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    they were awful, because of cheaply designed automatic transmissions that failed repeatedly

    ah I wasn't aware of that, the Fiesta ST we had was a manual so we didn't have much reason to know about that issue.

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  • [+] -16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

    I've still yet to find anyone who is able to post any data except a 2018 axios hit piece about trucks not being used properly or being happy with the use case.

    So for the thousandths time on Reddit/Lemmy, what data are you using to form that opinion?

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    How about you provide evidence for how something which burns through far more finite resources than necessary is somehow better for society?

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    On top of having far worse visibility, taking up too much space on roads and parking lots, and being responsible for more pedestrian deaths than smaller, more reasonably proportioned vehicles?

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  • [+] -7 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    Look at you, going off on a tangent.

    So to be clear, you do not have the data to back up the opinion, right?

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