Electric Vehicles Bleeding Red Ink: Ford
Is Losing Billions on EVs
Breitbart,
by
Alana Mastrangelo
Original Article
Posted By: mc squared,
3/25/2023 12:42:20 PM
Ford Motor Company says its electric vehicle (EV) unit, “Ford Model e,” is losing billions of dollars, and should be viewed as a startup company.
Model e has lost $3 billion before taxes over the last two years, and is expected to lose another $3 billion this year as the company invests in the new technology, according to a report by Associated Press. In 2021, Ford’s Model e unit had pretax losses of $900 million. And in 2022, that number was $2.1 billion. Ford reportedly believes Model e will be profitable before taxes by late 2026, with an eight percent pretax profit margin.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
jalo1951 3/25/2023 12:48:47 PM (No. 1433196)
We DON'T want 'em. Understand? To expensive. However, you might be buying one of their cars indirectly when FJB steps in to bail them out. (Ford is to big to fail because the American public is just so ignorant and they really don't know any better.) Leave me and my gas powered car and heat, and water heater and kitchen stove the hell alone.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
planetgeo 3/25/2023 1:00:28 PM (No. 1433199)
Yes, but they'll make up for it in volume...and government subsidies.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
planetgeo 3/25/2023 1:03:33 PM (No. 1433203)
Follow-up thought. Just wait until they build the 500,000 new charging stations Slow Joe promised.
Oh wait, scratch that. They aren't building any new generating plants to generate electricity for those charging stations. Ooops.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 3/25/2023 1:07:33 PM (No. 1433205)
If Ford isn't smart enough to pull the plug on this misadventure, they deserve to go broke. Toyota has already said "not so fast, boys...." and they're still in the black.
Previous posters are right: nobody wants these damn things.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
genius 3/25/2023 1:20:56 PM (No. 1433219)
They will never work.
We do not have the elements to make enough batteries.
We do not have the charging stations.
We do not have the electricity to supply the charging stations.
We need more oil to make the plastic cars.
I do not want an electric car!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 3/25/2023 1:29:42 PM (No. 1433227)
Rented EVs a couple of times, because they are the cheapest to rent at our airport. My only complaint is the RIDICULOUS amount of time you spend charging them, the way they drink juice. Other than than they handle well and do have some cool features.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
SALady 3/25/2023 1:33:14 PM (No. 1433230)
Economics 101: If part B of a company is bleeding money, part A of that company is having to charge more to make up for that.
So anyone buying a gas or diesel vehicle from Ford, you are paying much more than you should to make up for these idiotic EV loses.
Historically, Ford has stood for "Fix Or Repair Daily". What makes anyone believe that their EV's will be any different?!?!?!?!?!?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Quigley 3/25/2023 1:34:42 PM (No. 1433231)
I want an electric car to use to run up to the store. Like a big golf cart. But not as a real car. Right now, my finances do not run to a hobby car. And then there is the century of infrastructure built up for gasolene cars that must be replicated. Gas stations are built for a 5 minute stop to refuel. I wonder how they would be built in a crowded city center for a 2 hour stop. Mere details for Big Bidet to sweep aside in his mindless trip down the flight of stairs.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Max Bear 3/25/2023 1:38:11 PM (No. 1433232)
I'm in the car business. I am an auto broker, so I help folks buy cars and avoid dealerships. I have been predicting the collapse of the EV market for a while now-they are just not versatile enough to justify the price. And as a pick up truck, or an 'off-road' option-forget it. They have no range doing any kind of real work or slogging through the back country. As a commuter, they have some value, but have been vastly overpriced. If you want one, wait, because the prices are already falling.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 3/25/2023 1:40:13 PM (No. 1433236)
Me - tapping my pointer on the blackboard so you know to pay attention: WOKE = BROKE.
44 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 3/25/2023 1:43:32 PM (No. 1433237)
Even if I wanted an EV, even if I could afford an EV and even if it came with a Womb-to-Tomb warranty, I would refrain from making such a stupid purchase. EV's win in the great lottery of the Thar She Blows sweepstakes by becoming a boiling hulk of metal at a whim and stranding you far from home.
38 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 3/25/2023 1:44:09 PM (No. 1433239)
The green response: We're Doomed! Doomed! Make people buy EVs!
The looter response: Ford must be bailed out! Protect our investment!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Daisymay 3/25/2023 1:56:07 PM (No. 1433243)
So we can refuse to by the EV's, but guess what will com next if we stomp our foot and say, "no way will drive one those cars"! BIDEN will shut down the GAS stations! Horse and Buggy, here we come!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Max Bear 3/25/2023 2:04:15 PM (No. 1433248)
Hybrids, EVs and even turbo/smaller displacement engines are a result of ever increasing CAFE standards being forced on the manufacturers by the federal government. Tax incentives for EVs exacerbated the issue and drove prices up too. Costs of regulatory compliance are always passed along to the buyers.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
hershey 3/25/2023 2:18:03 PM (No. 1433261)
Maybe the Amish have had the right idea all along....
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Luandir 3/25/2023 2:19:42 PM (No. 1433266)
The only way EVs will make a profit in 2026 is if the gov't put guns to our heads and forces us to buy them - which is not at all out of the question.
25 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 3/25/2023 2:22:22 PM (No. 1433267)
I will never buy any EV.
Never.
41 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
DVC 3/25/2023 2:27:54 PM (No. 1433270)
#15 absolutely NAILS this.
This is 100% on government requirements.
The reason that there are no simple cars anymore.....most of the fru fru on cars is REQUIRED equipment by government mandates.
37 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
nwcudagal 3/25/2023 2:49:26 PM (No. 1433287)
Force everyone who voted for Biden to buy one. It's only fair.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
privateer 3/25/2023 2:55:22 PM (No. 1433294)
FORD= Found On Road Discharged.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
kono 3/25/2023 2:56:03 PM (No. 1433295)
Western Civilization keeps it's hands gripped around its throat and squeezes even harder. It won't even stop at the horse and buggy. Get ready for walking again, folks. (unless the "progressives" find a way to regulate that out of existence, too...)
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
joew9 3/25/2023 3:06:01 PM (No. 1433300)
Notice how all the EVs have big acceleration. Like a sports car. There is a reason. That makes them appeal to car enthusiasts. But I think the car enthusiasts are moving on to other vehicles because that is what they do. I wonder how an EV would sell that had the acceleration of a Honda Civic?
So I think EV's are pretty much gone is 5 years.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Zeek Wolfe 3/25/2023 3:23:06 PM (No. 1433308)
These electric turkeys are getting slaughtered by the public. We don't want them! People around the world don't want them. Electric cars cars are being pushed on the public as a fraudulent way to 'lower carbon footprints.' The laws of thermodynamics belie this. The global warming hoax was hatched in the almost cold embers of the dying Soviet Union but eagerly snatched up by the Democrat Party as a means to a socialist transformation of America. Remember this law: If the solution for global warming (electric cars, etc.) was lower taxes, fewer regulations, and less intrusive government, the issue would vanish.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 3/25/2023 3:24:42 PM (No. 1433309)
The Paris Accords had a date of 2100 to meet the goals and objectives, folks, that's still 77 years from now.
Why this urgent push now? Hybrids were a fine alternative, and worked well.
Are they really telling us that the people in China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and India (who turns out more engineers than anyone else), just don't see the same information and realize it? Do they think all of those people just don't know better, or are stupid?
Or, do those countries see the actual data, and notice the Western Countries are following advice based on bad data?
That they are willingly allowing the Western economies to rework their entire wealth, reducing their ability to continue to be the major power players they've been the past 100 years.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 3/25/2023 3:39:49 PM (No. 1433316)
It's tough to sell EVs when the EV infrastructure doesn't exist and wont be ready for decades. Windmills take time to construct on corners of busy streets. No matter how good the EV sounds, if you can conveniently drive it like a IC vehicle, the EV wont sell.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 3/25/2023 3:59:41 PM (No. 1433323)
Well, duh.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
bpl40 3/25/2023 4:44:17 PM (No. 1433340)
At a Senior community in Florida where a few friends older than me have moved, (almost) everyone has a car and a golf cart. The garages are constructed that way. The cart is very useful for playing golf, running errands, visiting friends in the community. They never leave the community campus and reduce usage on the regular IC cars. That is where EV use should start and stop.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Safari Man 3/25/2023 4:48:12 PM (No. 1433343)
New rule: you must prove that you voted Republican in the most recent election to be allowed a petroleum-powered vehicle. Everyone else is only allowed to buy electric vehicles.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
bad-hair 3/25/2023 5:25:55 PM (No. 1433357)
I love my big fat gas powered Toyota Tundra which will haul any load I'm man enough to load (I'm 70 but my kids can load too.) Toyota is noticeably lagging on EV's having produced the Prius for 20 (yes 20) years. Why wait in line to plug in when you can charge on the road ? Ford will catch on ... too late.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 3/25/2023 6:02:58 PM (No. 1433372)
Re #28. I have a small second home in a small lake community. All 18 of us have at least one golf cart. Very handy for its intended use. All the roads are private so they don't have to equipped and licensed for public roads. Also handy for some because you avoid a DUI. So far, no one driven into the lake after a few too many cocktails.
I cannot imagine an EV for anything other that use.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 3/25/2023 6:13:03 PM (No. 1433375)
Ford might try making actual ICE cars like sedans and coupes instead of concentrating solely on SUVs and trucks. Japanese and Korean manufacturers sure sell a whole lot of them here.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
formerNYer 3/25/2023 6:30:30 PM (No. 1433382)
Viewed as a startup? How about the shutdown. It will be just a costly and unprofitable 10 years from now.
The few yellow-dog D'Rats that will buy them won't be enough to make a profit.
I'll buy a horse before an electric car.
7 people like this.
Reply 33 - Posted by:
hisself 3/25/2023 8:13:40 PM (No. 1433409)
Every EV car battery requires 500,000 pounds of earth be dug to get the metals it requires.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
rytwng 3/25/2023 9:53:06 PM (No. 1433436)
They are battery powered cars. Electric is something you plug in.
6 people like this.
Reply 35 - Posted by:
Trigger2 3/26/2023 3:35:27 AM (No. 1433505)
Go woke; go broke. How true. Who wants those EVs anyways. I mean besides Joey and his corrupt demonrat cronies getting rich on the deal.
9 people like this.
Reply 36 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 3/26/2023 6:45:34 AM (No. 1433524)
EV's have been one of the left's greatest gaslighting victories.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 3/26/2023 6:58:57 AM (No. 1433531)
Hope Dodge gets the message, but probably won't. People want cars that are fun to drive and some of us, like lots of horsepower!
8 people like this.
Reply 38 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 3/26/2023 7:29:54 AM (No. 1433548)
Not everyone can afford a car like an electric vehicle. Throw in the battery cost, I know I can't.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
franq 3/26/2023 7:37:04 AM (No. 1433551)
My company is banking on EV's. I designed a die that makes connectors that go in EV's.
I get paid to do that, even though I would never own an EV. Lord willing, I am 9 months from retirement, so it is inconsequential.
"Save the Planet" programs are based on a mountain of lies.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
RWPollock 3/26/2023 7:57:00 AM (No. 1433570)
You know this is a bad money loosing proposition and you are still going forward with it? How idiotic. Go Woke Go Broke. How do you still have your job?
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
NotaBene 3/26/2023 8:11:25 AM (No. 1433585)
Global Warming is a hoax. Use gasoline of which we have plenty more than China,
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet 3/26/2023 8:41:43 AM (No. 1433607)
I own a hybrid. It's a pretty good car, however, as soon as the warranty runs out the car goes. I cannot afford to replace a battery that costs as much as the car. EV's are even worse. I will never own one.
10 people like this.
Reply 43 - Posted by:
Bassman1911 3/26/2023 8:59:58 AM (No. 1433621)
Go woke, deserve to go broke. Car companies will regret doing this.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/26/2023 9:37:11 AM (No. 1433656)
We called this one a few years ago. Big Auto is in a Catch 22 type situation. Nobody but the delusional wants to buy EVs because there is no charging infrastructure and they don't want to be caught up Schiff's Creek without a paddle. Nobody wants to invest in multi-billion dollar charging infrastructure because there is no demand. It sucks to be stupid.
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sorry #8 - that is not eco 101. both part A and
part B should be setting their prices to max profits (which can be neg),
if part A is losing money Part B cannot raise his price from its
profit maximizing price. Part A either has to change business model or
stop doing what it is doing.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
paral04 3/26/2023 11:48:21 AM (No. 1433756)
Ford needs to build what made their company strong and not bend to these Globalist whack jobs. An electric car might be great in a two car family for running errands but not for long haul or transportation, particularly in very cold climates and in areas of heavy downpours. Look what happened in Florida with the hurricane. It was a disaster with the EV's.
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
Pinkpanther 3/26/2023 12:12:18 PM (No. 1433777)
Hubby works for GM and he said 2024 will be the last gas Camaro with 2025 onwards it will be EV. I can’t describe in words how low IQ that is.
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
Zigrid 3/26/2023 12:15:59 PM (No. 1433781)
Oh...this is delicious!!...love my gas guzzler... anti woke means of transportation that starts with a pop when I engage the startup...and although the fuel is outrageous under the democrats...I don't care..they will NOT stop my travel plans....my car...I call Rudy Patootie...I always name my cars...hummmmms along the road and I'm a very happy lady...
4 people like this.
Reply 49 - Posted by:
Yo Yo 3/26/2023 12:47:00 PM (No. 1433816)
Last year I made four car trips from the Denver area to Southern California. I-25 to I-40 across New Mexico and Arizona to I-15 in the desert and then the freeways of SoCal. Vast open spaces. I tried to imagine how long that trip would have taken if I had to stop for an hour or more to recharge every 250 miles. If I could find a charger. EVs only work for commuters. The concept looks better on paper than it does in actuality.
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
Robert Jones 3/26/2023 1:56:17 PM (No. 1433867)
Only around because of massive, stupid government subsidies that only benefit a bunch of well connected grifters.
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Reply 51 - Posted by:
mk213 3/26/2023 7:19:18 PM (No. 1434038)
Like covid and 2020, everything green is a complete hoax and scam perpetrated by radical libs solely to steal taxpayer dollars and funnel them back to the DNC through phony no bid contracts awarded to lib donors and NGO's owned or operated by lib families.
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Reply 52 - Posted by:
mk213 3/26/2023 7:27:45 PM (No. 1434044)
Question 1: If green is the solution why isn't there a federal law already in place that mandates all ev's of every type must be powered by energy produced SOLELY by wind and solar?
Question 2: Why hasn't big oil made a ruckus about a national policy aimed directly at putting them out of business?
Answer: Because even greater quantities of fossil based fuel will be required to power the grid after 200 million electric cars, trucks, vans and buses hit the roads.
What a scam.
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Comments:
I'm not picking on Ford here, (although they are at fault for the loss of value) they're just the canary in the coal mine. We all know that when you're digging a 3 billion hole in the ground - keep digging.