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Ford Will Take $19.5 Billion Hit as It Rolls Back E.V. Plans (www.nytimes.com)
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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 50 points 1 week ago (3 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.

[–] WandowsVista@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

make rangers compact again

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 2 points 1 week 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.