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Every month USA will be less and less competitive in the EV space. The world will not wait for us.
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They yearn for the coal mines.
This is also partly Ford's fault. The F150 Lightning is very heavy and very expensive. It's capabilities as a truck aren't that great for the pricetag. They needed to be making more smaller, affordable EVs than shooting for the moon.
They're still making the Mustang Mach-E, and that CUV sells better than the actual Mustang.
To be fair, the F-Series trucks make up almost 39% of all vehicles fold by Ford in the USA (2024), plus . Americans overwhelming want big trucks from Ford, they're listening to their customers, their customers are just wrong though lol.
Ford Brand Total - 1,974,009
Ford Trucks Total - 1,158 964
F-Series - 765,649
The guys that founded Tesla (not Elon) actually did a great market analysis. They said EVs are expensive, so you don't start at the budget end. You actually start at the expensive luxury end. With trucks though it's hard because the buyers think they need a towing truck and the aerodynamics and thus range are awful.
"you voted for this"
-one of like 12 people in kentucky who didn't vote for trump
16000 in the county this plant is in voted for Harris.
At our last contact negotiation one of the stewards said pretty much the same thing to a guy who would not shut the fuck up about how the company was doing better than it would let on. And that his department was being shuttered out of spite.
This was weeks after Trump was elected, and we all kind of knew tariffs were coming. We had stronger membership than we'd ever had but everyone was extremely nervous about how much steel would even be available to buy. Last time he was elected the company hemorrhaged money on steel because of the Cheeto.
So this guy was a well known trump supporter, and the Steward understandably lost his cool when the guy leveled one accusation after another at him.
He did end up keeping a job, he had to take RIF but he's still employed.
I live in a purple county of a very red state. I get where he's coming from. Most of the union guys vote for pro union candidates. "You voted for this" is something we all kind of think once a day.
Whoa, I want to point out that 2/3 of Kentucky adults didn't vote for Trump.
That's also a terrible statistic, because Trump voters outnumber all other voters by almost 2:1. I'm sure other half of eligible voters would not have turned the needle the other way, but 700k voters did not want him.