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But Elon promised it this year, for sure this time ?

The article specifically indicates January 2021:

I read on Ford Authority that production is scheduled for January 2021.

Seems the head of the EPA agrees with most of the sentiment expressed here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/epa-raises-legal-questions-about-california-s-plan-to-ban-new-gas-powered-cars-starting-in-2035-11601321975

Ford is unlikely to develop a new platform that can be either ICE or EV. Either one would be trade off at this point.

I was thinking that since you are only looking for the fastener and not the whole door, the fastener may be used in other applications. It looks like something that I have on my 2004 Mazda6 that is used for holding the "doors" on the compartments in the hatch area.

Ford's first GigaFactory!

I imagine that the part is not unique to this one application and it's probably used in other areas / cars. Perhaps a stroll though a junk yard with late model Fords will yield what you are looking for?

Of the say, 2M pickups built, 50% of them are Ford pickups, which is twice as many as any other manufacturer. So, if Ford builds 50% of 2M, that would be 1M and the next largest manufacturer only builds 500K.

Welcome fellow Canuck!

That's huge! The Explorer is only 10 inches longer than the Edge.

I assume that there is still some cargo space lost to the storage of the seats, when not in use. Unless the seats can be removed.

Sorry, my error.

It was the union that let this one out of the bag, not Ford. Ford knew better.

Are there any changes to the 2021 Edge interior?

A timely article from Ford Authority: https://fordauthority.com/2020/08/ford-content-sourcing-ev-batteries-from-suppliers-instead-of-making-its-own/ “The supply chain has ramped up since Elon [Musk] built his Gigafactory, and so there’s plenty there that does not warrant us to migrate our capital into owning our own factory,” Hackett said. “There’s no advantage in the ownership in terms of cost or sourcing.” Ford’s issue with such an investment relates to scale, as FoMoCo’s head of product development and purchasing, Hau Thai-Tang, revealed in a recent analyst call. “We don’t have that volume initially to justify that capital expenditure,” he said. “There’s insufficient scale for any one OEM, other than somebody who’s a full-line battery-electric manufacturer like Tesla, to justify that spending.” Thai-Tang also pointed to Toyota as a cautionary tale of what happens when an automaker invests heavily in one type of battery. “They invested to vertically integrate nickel-metal hydride batteries for their hybrids. And after spending over $1 billion to do that, the technology shifted to lithium ion, and they were among the last to switch over. I don’t want to put Ford in that position.”

More supply is coming online all the time. As the automotive world continues to increase the supply of EVs, based upon consumer demand, the vehicles will be available. If Tesla wants to continue to sell vehicles at a loss, i think the other automotive manufacturers are happy to let them do so. At the end of the day, profits are the name of the game and Tesla only produces a profit by selling their credits. As more manufactures start selling EVs, Tesla's credits will become worthless so they better figure out how to start selling cars profitably.

For the month of July, Tesla didn't even show in the top ten electric vehicle sales in Europe. Sales of electric vehicles accounted for 18% of all sales in July, ~53,000, and Tesla only managed to get ~1,000 of them: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltaylor/2020/08/27/tesla-blown-away-as-renault-dominates-europes-july-ev-sales-party/#75c8975351e5 The stock price rise is nothing more than FOMO.

Perhaps you should rescue it

I find that the new grill looks much better in real life than it does in photos.

Compliance (mask wearing) did increase once the government made it mandatory, where I am in Canada. Went from ~65% to ~98% compliance.

Yes, was released for sale very recently.

Call it a GigaFactory...

Yep, real disaster ? Source - Ford Authority (https://fordauthority.com/2020/07/ford-explorer-sales-numbers-figures-results-second-quarter-2020-q2/)

Maybe he's slouched over but that looks like a really high belt line.