From what my friends at other agencies said (I don't know anyone personally at Bargersville PD, but my friends do), the Bargersville PD Tesla cop cars are all Long Range All Wheel Drive models. The agency's fleet also has Explorer PI with hybrid 3.3L, gasoline only 3.3L, and Ecoboost 3.0L engines, all with AWD.
Nope, its actually roughly the same size as the T6 based Bronco sold here
5,025 mm/197.8346 inches long
1,960mm/77.16 inches wide
1,815mm/72.87402 inches tall
2,950mm/116.1417 inches wheelbase
Thats of course if Google AI got their measurements correct LOL
It looks to me like they had The Lego Group design it. Distinctive is good, fugly not so much.
Kia designers are playing too many warcraft video games, but maybe that's also true of their intended market.
It seems more off pavement than off road, which is not a bad thing, IMO. Not a fan of the giant screen and endless features, I prefer integrated screens of 8 in diag. or smaller and knobs/buttons/levers. More Edge-size, which is welcome. If it came here, or was built here, I think it would do relatively well.
Yea, exactly. A lot of us, me included, were initially skeptical that things would be really different at the skunkworks, and worried that the corpo big shots in Dearborn and other Ford lifers would neuter or destroy it as they often do in other parts of FoMoCo.
The following two sentences from the article puts that concern to rest. @akirby, this confirms what you've said many times on this forum. 😊
He recruited engineers and designers from electric vehicle makers like Tesla, Rivian and Lucid and from start-ups working on batteries, electronics and software, and promised them the kind of creative freedom that tech workers take for granted.
To shield his project from corporate meddling, anyone not on Mr. Field’s select team wasn’t even allowed through the door. No exceptions.
Well, there is no shrinkage in EV sales. It's not growing as fast... we are still on track to sell more EV year over year.
Basically, Ford is pivoting away to lithium phosphate battery using CATL technology (Michigan Blueoval). SK Blueoval Tennessee was a lithium ion battery joint venture and Ford probably doesn't see any need for that much lithium ion production anymore.
CE platform uses CATL lithium phosphate battery technology and we know Farley is favoring CE.
The mothballed GE platform and the fate unknown TE F-150 platform use SK lithium ion battery technology.
Ford keeping the Kentucky plant could mean it will keep producing lithium ion there for legacy EV and hybrid products that uses that battery. Or it could mean that it will implement another lithium phosphate production line without SK which presumably would not like it if it still owns the plant.