I don't understand from an economic point of view how they thought

Totally agree. Those range numbers don’t mean much without knowing the baseline or the actual aero and pack details. If Ford wants this truck to be usable beyond city speeds or light errands, a bigger battery seems much more realistic.

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.    

Nope. 

Your basing this on the current economic conditions with worldwide trade staying exactly the same as it is today...the system we have today won't exist in another 10-20 years, if that.  There is going to be a retrenchment of manufacturing to North America, if we still want to buy stuff.   China will fall apart in some fashion in that same time period.   

Yea, lookin' at the graph you originally shared, the BEV market in the U.K. seems to be more competitive than the U.S.    

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. 

Hi all Could use some help - recently bought a 2017 Ford Explorer Sport 3.5 Turbo Ecoboost, and noticed a strange hiss/rattle noise when you accelerate fairly hard. It is IDENTICAL to the noise shown in this video:   [please see 1:25 for demo of the noise] Really useful video, and even gives the part number (YG360), but unfortunately that video is for the older generation (MK4), but he changes out the Check Valve and it fixes it completely. Pretty confident that this replacement would work as the noise is identical. What the MK5 equivalent to his MK4 valve??? Any help very appreciated!

So, despite China’s predatory trade practices via huge state subsidies, forced labor and IP theft we should allow these China vehicles to pour into our country so Americans can have lower prices. Wonderful, that has worked so well over the last 30 years. Yes, let’s keep prioritizing those cheap prices.

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.