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Yea, exactly. EV trucks and vans are perfect for any application with depot or "back to base" charging (where a fleet of EV starts and ends a shift at centralized locations, such as warehouses). When DHL built its new warehouse on the east side of Indianapolis a few years ago, it incorporated 45 EV charging stations in the facility and now has a large fleet of battery electric trucks and vans serving the local market.

Again, 300 million people paying much higher prices to preserve 300-400,000 jobs. The core issue in the US is a form of Dutch Disease, which has led to a decline of manufacturing in favor of financial, medical, and other service sectors. These sectors add little value and act as middlemen or gatekeepers to core economic activity. The irony of the current trade policy is that it has failed to preserve jobs, while increasing costs and reducing competition. The Chinese were smart to invite foreign automakers into their country to learn and improve auto-making; we could do the same, but our egos won't allow that.

Not really, stop rewarding mediocrity with tariffs and protective policies that increase costs for Americans. Protecting a few hundred thousand jobs while increasing the cost for 300 million people by 10% may not be a good idea in the long term.

Thanks for the video my friend. What the head honcho should have said is Ford lost a lot of money on things like the fusion because those products were commodity anonymous unibody sedans for which Ford had to apply a shit ton of sales incentives. It ain't because of the platform Jimbo! Anyway, an affordable performance EV sedan with a unique design that takes advantage of the newfangled processes developed at the skunkworks sounds promising. If Ford is going to offer new sedans for North America at all (not that it needs to), that's the way to do it.

Fun interview overall, haven't watched the full vid yet, but he talks about affordable EVs, the main one he's focusing on is an affordable performance EV sedan. He says how there's still a sizable market for sedans, but talks about how Ford lost a lot of money on things like the fusion because of the platform it used. He goes on to mention how sedans make a lot of sense for an EV due to having really solid aero, and then gets into details on what kind of sedan he has in mind. A RWD affordable performance sedan, with what he calls a unique closure system to presumably improve practicality.

Doesn’t mean that range was the reason they went with something else. Lots of other factors.

Step 1: Endlessly extend product cycles/cancel product updates Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit

Yes. Because I'd be surprised if they do much different than sharing front/rear ends with the Mustang. ......I'd imagine the whole business case is based on sharing as much as possible with the coupe/convertible. I feel that'd be a more "worthy"/ acceptable/less controversial use of the Mustang name than Mach E was....

The UK is a shitshow with various different things, no wonder why the leadership ratings are so low.