Ford has written off $1.9bn as it cancelled plans for an all-electric large SUV in the US, opting to produce a hybrid version instead in the latest sign of western carmakers struggling to make profitable electric cars.
The US carmaker said on Wednesday that it would not be able to reach a profit on the electric SUV within a year, its measure of whether a new car is viable, citing the stiff competition from Chinese manufacturers. It will initially write off the cost of $400m (£300m) in tooling for the vehicle, plus another $1.5bn (£1.15bn) in extra costs in the future.
Ford also said it would delay the successor to its F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck until 2027, after initially targeting a launch next year.
It’s just simple physics, or did you fail that class?
I’m not gonna explain why the things you said make you sound like an idiot. I’m just telling you it does. And that we’re all over here laughing at you.
No, it’s not. Tire Particulate Pollution
You now want everyone to drive around cars that have the equivalent weight of a 5 person family extra?
Seriously use your brain m8
Ah the famous made up stuff that had nothing to do with anything. Like the other car doesn’t also have tires?
Or that weight is the primary contributor to tires degrading.
Idiocy
So you’re telling me 900lbs of weight makes 0 difference on tire wear?
Yep someone failed or just never took it.
Heavier vehicle takes more to move making it use more power. Where you live it may not be an issue but for a lot of Americans it means coal power plants.
There are reasons why I stated that big electric vehicles currently don’t make sense. Stop being so narrow minded, I am not basing my views on a single issue
Dunno about that bruh
Not a single issue waaaaaaa.
You are a moron Don’t even notice what I said about power generation Read a book ya dumb fuck
Oh, would a book explain to me why you only compare things on spec sheets?
I’d probably have to go to 4chan for that one.
Seriously you are missing some brain cells Batteries are heavy, to get the same range in fuel you need more batteries. Towing capacity is diminished to from the extra weight. More batteries is more mining and less cars can be produced with current designs all for the sake of a checkbox (range). More smaller cars with half the range are ideal for current battery tech and the way people realistically commute. Electricity generation is a big issue. Not everywhere uses solar, wind, hydro or nuclear. So your left with incineration, coal or natural gas for electrical generation
More batteries is more expensive making only wealthy people able to buy them (F150 lightning, Rivian, that other stupid company) also making them too expensive to replace.
Extra weight also puts more strain on existing parts leading to premature failures, makes crashes more likely to be fatal, more batteries more points of failure and more battery to burn if penetrated or catastrophic failure.
There is prob more but I’ve got work to do.