Says here the car is 5 meters long. I assume that is with the spare tire.
So if you take away the spare tire, it is roughly 4.8 meters long... about the same size as ICE Bronco. Much bigger than Bronco Sport or Escape.
Yeah, fact is that increasing demand regardless of where it comes from usually leads to higher prices, and not just for AI or BEV owners, but also for those who need electricity to keep lights on, cook, power air conditioning, etc. Problem I see is that planning on higher prices alone to limit demand may be too painful on many people because we don’t know how profitable AI may be. As example, I don’t know if electricity prices were to double, whether that would even faze them and force reductions. Since governments (controlled by voters) often have to approve rate hikes and or added capacity, it will be interesting to see how this issue plays out. In Texas the grid seems more stressed and less reliable than decades ago, though I have no data to back that up. Just opinion based on perceived numbers of outages.
True, and utilities buy power from a market of potential suppliers , those suppliers can't keep up with demand from AI so the price increases until the demand matches the supply.
According to the article in Ford Authority, "..that the automaker has made great strides in terms of improving initial quality for 2025 model year vehicles, specifically, and the 2025 J.D. Power Initial Quality Study (IQS)...)
All well and good, but virtually all of the recalls involve vehicles 1-5 years old. The JD Power Vehicle Dependability Study (VDS) better reflects that. It measures owner satisfaction after three years. And despite all of the recalls over time, Ford shows up pretty ok, but has along ways to go to catch up to GM and Toyota. Figures are for 2022 vehicles: