I'm not saying to make it our only priority, but there's an opportunity here. Tesla has seen its best days. Their main consumer segment is vowing to never buy Tesla again because of Musk and his latest comments and theatrics. He is single-handedly making way for somebody else to swoop in and grab a sizable share of the EV market from Tesla. Why shouldn't it be us?
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I retired over a year ago from powertrain engineering. I’d buy a Tesla long before a Ford EV. The company still makes junk gas engines. Quality is way down. That’s what they get for promoting the wrong people. The smart engineers don’t care anymore because the promotion quotas overlook them.
Just saw an article. That an upgraded Lightning battery is coming. ROFL
It's not even a year old yet!
Yeah boy those EVs are great for winter. Ford Lightning got a whopping 7 miles on a 2.5 hour charge. Even Hertz had wide spread problems with their rental fleet.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/brother-sister-had-stop-6-090000489.html
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A brother and sister had to stop 6 times in 1 day to charge their rented Tesla in cold weather because the battery drained so quickly
A brother and sister rented a Tesla and found they had to stop six times in one day to charge it.
They said other customers with rented Teslas had called Hertz with similar charging problems.
… it got to the point that the "battery would drain faster than it would charge," …
When they set off they could drive for at least two and a half hours before needing to charge the Tesla. "We ended up having to stop every one to one and a half hours to charge for an hour, then an hour and a half, then two hours," …
"So beyond the lost time, it also got to the point it was between $25 and $30 to recharge. Just in one day, we stopped six times to charge at that cost,"
Hertz said on its website that renting a Tesla was "always cheaper than gas," according to Xaviar, but he said that claim was far from the truth.
Because companies don’t win by playing follow the leader; they win by actually being leaders.
Ford seems to have trouble with anything electrical. Components, connections, wiring, circuit protection, water entry, etc. They have had such issues for the last 100 years. EVs should be breeze.
We can't even make a quality ICE vehicle. And you think we'll make a quality EV?😂😂😂😂😂😂
It just shows that the EV shift is about mo--nic politics, rather than actual science or consumer demand. Tesla is wonderful. Tesla will save the planet. Tesla gets government subsidies. Oh wait, Musk will let opposing views on Twitter - we must not buy Tesla. Ford should abandon its midwestern base in order to court California kooks?
@OP. Then you should invest in EVs. Let me know how it goes...
Saying that Tesla has seeing its best days when they are selling over 15 times the number of BEVs the second place sells (and that's Ford) tells me a lot about you.
BEVs is another scam, like "global warming" A.K.A "climate change". Give it time and will deflate.
How about Ford makes a desirable product rather than trying to capture the pro censoring market? That doesn't seem like a long term strategy.
Elon is a self made man. Unlike Billy and Jim.