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Need a lot more context to judge how bad it is.
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Sport and fx4 packages have a black or dark grey grille and should be an easy swap.
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45 minutes ago, twintornados said:
Like I said...you don't like unions. Got it.
And you hate businesses. Got it. Let’s all move on.-
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15 minutes ago, Tico said:
In countries where EV adoption is really high like Norway, most owners charge at home. This more critical than having public chargers everywhere. People need incentives to install home chargers and apartments need incentives to install them too. Public chargers make you pay many times per kilowatt what your home service does. Public is only neede if your going beyond 200 miles before you get back home.
You are incorrect to believe most drivers in the U.S. can install home chargers. Older homes require service upgrades and a lot of areas don’t have the infrastructure to support it. It’s one thing for an apartment to install a few chargers and something entirely different to install dozens that would most likely be in use concurrently (and require rigorous scheduling if they can’t provide enough chargers for each tenant.).Readily available public chargers are a requirement for widespread adoption. It’s not physically or economically viable for everyone to charge at home.
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And to think they almost killed it for North America…..
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I mean - what if you’re driving in a torrential downpour?
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28 minutes ago, rmc523 said:
The vehicle was stopped, in this case.
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Area 51 and Velocity Blue
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6 minutes ago, DeluxeStang said:
Promising results, but I really hope Ford is able to turn model e around in the coming years. They say their newer products will be almost instantly profitable. But I still recall interviews from Ford's head of their EV program when the mach-e was first launched how it would be profitable almost on day one.
I'm curious to see those affordable EVs, hopefully they impress.
Don’t confuse gross profit with net profit. Every person on that 100 person skunkworks team plus the entire T3 design, engineering and testing team plus all the folks working on next gen batteries and platforms and future vehicles are an expense without a revenue stream.
You're looking at a division that is staffed for and working on 8-10 vehicles (more counting Europe) but only selling 3 and developing new platforms, technologies and processes and building new plants (construction is capital but there is still a lot of expense).
All of those costs go against net profit and it’s virtually impossible to turn a net profit more new EVs are on the street generating revenue and profits.
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Wow - almost a 17% margin for Ford Pro. How do they break out vehicle sales between pro and blue? Is Pro fleet only?
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Didn’t help that the cars inside were in neutral.
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37 minutes ago, sullynd said:
I wouldn’t be surprised if they accidentally resumed cruise control while turning the wheel. I’ve done it myself a couple times, and people post about it in the Lightning groups quite often. With sub 4 second 0-60 it can be shocking when you don’t intend it to happen.
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9 minutes ago, twintornados said:
Got it...you both are anti-union....good to know.
For the record, I’m not against unions. I’m against union tactics like strikes just to get more compensation - especially when it’s significantly higher than the rest of the market. It puts employers at a competitive disadvantage and it absolutely drives business to other states and countries. And it protects bad employees and stifles productivity. I’ve seen it first hand.I believe an employer has the right to determine employee pay. Period. If you don’t like the pay or benefits then go find another job.
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From what I’ve seen they’re planning to make cheaper versions of existing vehicles not an all new model 2.
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You can’t make this stuff up.
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9 hours ago, silvrsvt said:
Cause it was put out during a shareholder meeting and not Musk directly?
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Why do people still believe everything Musk says?
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11 minutes ago, Andrew L said:
Delete post, misunderstood the chart
Sorry first column was Japan.-
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22 hours ago, Chrisgb said:
I found it Ironic that shortly after the Focus was discontinued, Toyota announced they were doing a $170M expansion at TMMMS to increase Corolla production
Seems short sighted based on sales which have been steadily declining.
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9 hours ago, CKNSLS said:
Myself and others on this board have predicted the pricing on new trucks is not sustainable. Not only trucks-either. It turns out those predictions may have had some validity.
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3 hours ago, silvrsvt said:
But there are a lot of variables with that-
Not everyone will be at 0-10% when they recharge
Fast charging is level 3 that can recharge a 60 kwh battery in under 30 minutes from empty. Superchargers can charge battery's to 80% in 15 minutes.
Still a huge gap and quoting that statistic is misleading. They should have at the very least quoted # chargers vs number of gas pumps.-
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7 hours ago, Andrew L said:
the smaller cab and longer bed is appreciated by those use their truck for work.
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4 hours ago, Captainp4 said:
This is the concern I've voiced a few times on calling things commodity when the new wears off of them, sounds like Bronco and Bronco sport are turning into commodity products already if they can't command a premium anymore. Obviously the economy is playing a big part here, but if Ford can't keep the product fresh and "gotta have it" they aren't going to be able to generate the margins they want unless they can find more efficiency on the engineering/production side. Not saying the sky is falling or they're bad products or anything like that with a small amount of data, but it is a little concerning.
Commodity implies a lot more than lowered prices. There is nothing about those vehicles that come close to being a commodity. And they’re lowering prices after having raised prices significantly. This is just a natural correction of prices that were higher than normal during times of short supply.I agree they have to keep the products fresh to maintain margins.
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1 hour ago, silvrsvt said:
and the further you go into the middle (and the greater distances you need to travel) they aren't as
popular. Viable.
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VW Workers Vote to Join UAW in Historic Southern Win for Union
in Competing Products
Posted · Edited by akirby
Never mind. Might as well bang my head into a brick wall.