Sorry, couldn't resist...  

I had a deer hit the side of my '23 F-150 Tremor about two weeks ago. It hit the very bottom edge of the passenger side front door at full speed pushing it in about 1". I'm sure the running board took the brunt of the hit but was surprisingly undamaged. The following day I contacted my insurance company and took it to my local Ford dealer's collision center that same day. They gave me an estimate that was over $3600 to replace the damaged door with a new door and set me up with a scheduled repair date of 12/16/25.   However, because of supply issues that I assume are related to the aluminum plant fires, I got a call from the dealer a day or two later saying that Ford could not give them ANY time frame on when they could expect to receive a replacement door.    I'm still debating whether to ask if the insurance company or body shop would even consider using a used door from a wrecking yard. I also assume the cost would be much lower, especially if they could find one in the same color.   On a side note, I also asked the estimator if they would replace the entire door shell or just the outer skin. He said that they no will longer even try to replace the outer skin because when they have tried that approach, which was the common method on steel doors, they almost always break some of the aluminum tabs when they try to bend and crimp them over the inner shell. He also stated that if that happens, the shop has to cover the cost of the skin because the insurance companies won't cover something that they damaged during the repair process.   So while aluminum is lighter and more corrosion resistant, it is also much more expensive to repair or replace than steel.  

Yes, Tesla, GM and Ford all got way in front of where buyers were, now they need to get back to what customers really want (not massive BEV pickups)

Yea, thanks. I'll save Joe the trouble:   socialism noun so·cial·ism ˈsō-shə-ˌli-zəm    a : a system of society or of group living in which there is no private property b : a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state

The market chose ICE vehicles over electric and steam at the turn of the last century, without government mandates to do so. By and large, the populous was uninformed about the effects of hydrocarbons in the atmosphere, as we are now. Fast forward a century and a quarter, our collective desire to generally be good stewards of the planet's resources, is creating a demand for cleaner transportation. We as a global society have trillions of dollars invested in ICE vehicle manufacture and petroleum refining. As generally good people, we'll get there, but at the market's pace, not by government decree.    There is a granite shield stretching from Manitoba, Canada through central Minnesota from volcano eruptions a billion years ago. Mastadon tracks with those of humans in New Mexico, evidence of tropical plants in ice core samples in Antarctica. Things are always changing. And if we reach the theoretical tipping point where the planet goes into runaway temperature rising, as good stewards we'll figure it out, driven by the marketplace at such a time. We just need to not get ahead of ourselves.

You need to look up the definition of socialism.

Automotive is still 100% capitalism.  Manufacturers are still privately owned and still decide what to make and sell - within regulations.  Anyone can start a new company like Rivian and Lucid and compete with the existing players.     My neighbor thinks billionaires are hoarding money and causing others to be poor which is ridiculous.  My home and my retirement investments have doubled in value the last 7 years.  That didn't take money out of anyone else's pocket.

Except It doesn't mean what you believe which is that nobody wants EVs.  It means nobody wanted 100% EVs.  There is a large percentage of the population who do want and are buying EVs and that will continue to grow as EVs get better and cheaper.  They're not going away.

The problem is Ford and GM listened to and believed everything King Biden told them: You will build only EV's and the consumer will be ordered to buy them!  Sounded like socialism.

Truer words were never spoken!