Basically, the huge-personal-truck model doesn’t work so well with batteries. Making them cheap enough means making them small…which Ford didn’t try to do

  • SaveTheTuaHawk
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    8 days ago

    Ford should roll back truck plans, not EV plans.

    Then they will go broke, the F150 is one of the world’s best selling vehicles and the only reason why Ford isn’t bankrupt.

    Focus and Fiesta were great cars

    Bullshit, they were awful, because of cheaply designed automatic transmissions that failed repeatedly and Ford kept selling them for 7 years. Even in the sport Focus, they had major engine failures due to poor head gasket design. Focus and Fiesta were top sellers worldwide, but Ford so badly fucked their customers they got out of the car business, now only making the Mustang Boomermobile.

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      8 days ago

      they were awful, because of cheaply designed automatic transmissions that failed repeatedly

      ah I wasn’t aware of that, the Fiesta ST we had was a manual so we didn’t have much reason to know about that issue.