You say that in jest but who can blame Ford
curbing its enthusiasm in these unsettled times.
BEV is becoming like the Fermi paradox, with such a huge market, where are all the buyers?
Most of Norman has been a “quiet zone” for 15-20 years. By law, the railroads had to add crossing gates on all on-grade crossings in the state around that timeframe, and they made the switch to being a quiet zone about the same time, but I don’t know if either made any difference in safety.
Fun fact: Norman was named after Abner Norman, who was a railroad surveyor (for the Santa Fe, IIRC) in the 19th century. He had a rail car with his name on the side parked on a siding after one of the Land Runs in 1889, when the city was founded, and the name stuck.
A few years ago, I was driving fairly slowly down a 2-lane highway late on a foggy night. The terrain was hilly, so when it dipped down I’d come out of the fog, then go back into it on the next hill. On one of these dips, I saw a buck standing on the centerline, so I slowed down even further and moved right to go around it.
It was somewhere past my door when the dumb son of a buck turned and ran into the side of the bed. 180 degrees it could’ve gone and not run into anything, but the dumbass turned and ran into the big red truck. Fortunately, it didn’t do any damage to the truck, but it sure sounded like a heck of a hit.
You would think so but the clinics are saying otherwise, those buyers started evaporating after about 2022.
I think that market was successfully filled by Tesla 3 and Y with Ford finding little or no interest in 3- row Utility.
The $1.9 billion charge last year kind of reinforced the point with Ford brass..