• Automaker is shifting its strategy for EVs as demand wanes
  • Suppliers in South Korea, China grapple with unsold inventory
  • @halcyoncmdr
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    217 months ago

    Ford losing $100,000 per car while Tesla reportedly is at like a 30% margin per vehicle.

    Something tells me Ford isn’t actually trying.

    • @[email protected]
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      177 months ago

      give them a break - it’s taking all their time, money and energy to lobby for cheap, high quality, long range, compact vehicles made in Asia to be banned from the US or tariffed into oblivion.

      • mommykink
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        17 months ago

        Had me in the first half

    • @Dkarma
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      77 months ago

      Large corps like this barely “work” as in function not labor. There’s like 25 people holding these companies together and not a single fucking one is upper management…

    • @[email protected]
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      47 months ago

      I mean, let’s be real, Ford isn’t losing 100k/ev, their EV division has lost $100k/EV sold so far. It takes a lot of initial capital to get factory lines off the ground. Plus all the R&D that goes into turning and electric Edge into a “Mustang” and making an EV truck that fits the F150 mold.

      They are chasing the dragon of early adopters that were willing to drop $100k on a platinum trim truck. There aren’t anymore left. What the market needs is an electric maverick, and a return of the electric Focus. Both could be done for less than $30k and they would sell like crazy. But Ford is stuck thinking EV = premium, when there aren’t many people left with premium budgets, at least until the economy improves for the masses again.