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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 silence7@slrpnk.net 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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[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 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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