The automaker is killing its electric three-row SUV, delaying a next-gen pickup, and committing to future gas and diesel vehicles, citing a lack of consumer interest in full-EV cars.
  • Delta_V@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    28 days ago

    Has Ford ever made a good EV? AFAIK, compared to the competition, Ford’s EVs take too long to charge, for too little range, and they cost too much. Perhaps there is simply a lack of interest in the low-quality offerings they’ve plopped onto the market so far?

  • Nougat@fedia.io
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    29 days ago

    I know that Ford stopped making cars for the US market. Are they still making cars for any other markets? Hybrid is probably the future for trucks, especially when trucks keep getting bigger and bigger, and the occasional person wants to tow something.

    They could make a proper old school single row seat mini pickup instead of the useless Maverick for people who want to do some light towing and actually move things in a bed that isn’t the size of a postage stamp.

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    29 days ago

    God, that’s awful.

    They’re right that there’s a lot of Ford fans with an ideological opposition to EVs, though. Or at least are where I live.

  • ganksy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    29 days ago

    Thank you for sliming down my choices when I go to buy my next vehicle. To be fair, I would never buy new or finance my house on some 80k behemoth.

    The backwards think that I can see is ingrained in Ford will certainly keep me from owning a used one.

    Toyota has doubled down here in the US market as well. Moving their plant to TX at the hight of the small-mindedness social policies and the muskrat exodus. Also pretending hydrogen is the future is just not gonna work for me.