This is the right decision. Why build something that you can't sell and people don't want to buy. Why make something that you loose $ for every single vehicle you make.
Shut it down.
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@3ppf+1q2aMgTn Well, I go with my ICE vehicle to Costco, to get gas and groceries, and refilling my ICE takes 5 minutes. No detours, and no need to do anything else when I go back home. Besides, I earn a 2% back with my membership. I don't need to rent anything when I want to go in a road trip, since ICE is good ALWAYS.
Please keep your cheap BEV propaganda stories for your relatives.
Genuinely interested if any of the commenters have actually owned / driven an EV. We have a Lightning, charging at our local Meijer literally takes as long as it does to shop. I go in with the battery at 20%, I come out half an hour later and she's at 80. Plugged in at home takes care of the remainder every day. When I contrast to our edge that I have to detour off a gas station at least once a week, often twice, it's considerably less convenient. The Lightning charges while I'm doing other things. I can count on one hand after nearly a year having one the number of times I've had to go make time to charge it. This is with (light - 2000lb trailer) towing every couple of months, and regular family usage (we're heading for about 12000 miles in the year we've had it). The only time it's not been better than the ice f150 it replaced was a couple long road trips I had to take, and you know what, with the money I didn't spend on gas, I rented a hybrid and took that. Maybe if you live in the boondocks and drive 300 miles a day, I could see the reticence to switching to electric, but it really isn't as bad as these boards would make it
This is already happening and guess who is doing it? Our Chinese friends and it's getting more and more popular.
https://insideevs.com/news/664267/nio-drivers-prefer-ev-battery-swapping-to-recharging/
There are 2 major problems with EVs (aside from the price): batteries and charging them.
EV makers could get around these problems by going to their local Home Depot and studying Makita and Milwaukee cordless drills. People who use these tools for their jobs would be severely inconvenienced if they had to buy 6 drills to get through the day. Instead, drill makers make their BATTERIES replaceable so workers can just swap out batteries and get on with the job. Drills are not cell phones, neither are cars and trucks. Some say that making EV batteries a standardized replaceable cartridge is impractical. But so is having your car out of service for hours while charging it and so is the tens of thousands of dollars it costs to replace an EV battery when they go bad. Who wants to buy a used EV?
What a huge mistake... Just as Tesla begins ramping up their truck production.
Elon will prove that real truck buyers WANT electric powertrains.
If we aren't building enough of our product - how will we compete?
Get used to this being reality. And for this Gen2 product they speak of, or try to create the Streisand effect for, just wait. You will possibly see the collapse of Ford as a result of how much money they sunk into it.
Another lemon out of the roads.
Good thing
“Why build something that you can't sell and people don't want to buy?”
That’s how controlled economies work.
Read Thomas Sowell’s book “Basic Economics”. He was explains with examples from history. A central economic planning committee deciding what should and should not be produced instead of price leads to poverty.