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   From: bevs-lmao!@jan6.org   
      
   On 25 Feb 2022, "Text-Drivers R Killers"  posted   
   some news:svbqr9$1qbm5$53@news.freedyn.de:   
      
   > Add this as just another Obama failure.  He started it and lost the   
   > USA hundreds of billions of dollars.   
      
   Electric vehicles are the future, they said. They’re the quintessential   
   pain in the backside that isn’t worth the money and a resource drainer   
   for the working family. Who am I kidding? These cars aren’t for people   
   like us. It’s for rich, wealthy, woke whites who think they’re doing   
   their part in going green. They’re really setting up their families to   
   freeze to death when the battery dies as temperatures dip.   
      
   In Canada, one man detailed how these vehicles were the greatest scam of   
   the modern era, given the $130,000-plus investment he sunk into this   
   cockamamie lefty idea. When the EV line costs your company billions,   
   maybe that’s a sign that this goes beyond overhead and research   
   costs—customers don’t want it. For every Ford F-150 Lightning sold,   
   which Joe Biden was infamously photographed driving early in his term,   
   it cost Ford $36,000. So, how is the car giant going to fix this? They   
   will shift their focus toward making more gas-powered cars—the ones that   
   make money (via NY Post):   
      
   Ford Motor said Friday it would reduce production of its F-150 Lightning   
   pickup truck, as demand for electric vehicles softens.   
      
   The No. 2 US automaker said it would cut production at its Michigan   
   Rouge Electric Vehicle Center to one shift starting April 1. In October,   
   the automaker said it would temporarily cut one of three shifts at the   
   Michigan plant that builds the electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck.   
      
   The announcement is the latest sign of slowing demand for EV trucks.   
   General Motors in October postponed the opening of a $4 billion electric   
   truck plant in Michigan for a year.   
      
   […]   
      
   Ford said a few dozen employees could be impacted at component plants   
   supporting F-150 Lightning production.   
      
   Ford lost an estimated $36,000 on each of the 36,000 EVs it delivered to   
   dealers in the third quarter, the company said in October, after   
   announcing earlier it would slow the ramp-up of money-losing EVs,   
   shifting investment to Ford’s commercial vehicle unit and citing plans   
   to quadruple sales of gas-electric hybrids over the next five years.   
      
   These cars' batteries also need to be charged for what seems like every   
   other hour. Second, you need to upgrade your grid and install charging   
   stations at your home and place of employment. That expense soars into   
   the tens of thousands on top of the overpriced and laughably unreliable   
   vehicle whose battery life is halved when it gets colder. Leah wrote   
   about how winter has become the grim reaper for Teslas in Chicago. These   
   cars just die.   
      
   Until we’ve successfully duplicated what Keanu Reeves did in Chain   
   Reaction, just buy a gas-powered car.   
      
   https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/01/26/fords-electric-vehicle   
   -experiment-was-an-open-wound-that-could-never-heal-n2634217   
      
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