https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/01/chevron-deference-faces-existential-test/
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This is how it's done.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/stellantis-mulls-halting-uk-production-amid-ev-demand-concerns-2024-06-25/
It's not just subscription revenue that is resulting from Model e's initiatives. Software, data, and other services are being offered and generate revenue without the large overhead of an ICE vehicle.
@ 2qmv if Ford were a serious player in the subscription revenue space, there would be line items for subscribers acquired on the monthly sales report and for subscription revenue on the financial statements.
There isn’t. Which means there isn’t sufficient subscription revenue to cover the annual expense of employing you.
The Ford brand is changing - for the better!
We don't want to be known as the brand with dirty-hands, blue collar, workers or small business owners, driving F150 XL trim levels to tow and haul.
We want to be known as the brand with wealthy young people driving themselves, and maybe their young families, to the trails or camp site with their mountain bikes or camping gear in the back. Or to the golf course with their golf clubs in the back.
These customers also generate subscription revenue.
This is the future for Ford.
@1byb+1t9skjTq Fartley, is that you again?
"The young and affluent customer segment is growing and they want electric vehicles."
Sure, they want luxury vehicles. Since Ford is not a luxury brand, and Lincoln is dead in the water, what customer would want to pay luxury prices for cr-ppy vehicles? Marketing 101... know your product, know your consumer.
"Let Toyota and Honda and Kia sell small two door and four door gasoline powered sedans."
It was wrong for Ford to leave the sedan market then, like it is now doubling down in the same stoopidity. We gave away 6% of the NA market to our competitors for free, without thinking that these small sedans are the gateway to hook more customers now, but are also future buyers of more expensive products later on.
"Ford will sell fewer vehicles but make significantly higher margins on them"
Have you ever heard about competition? It is supposed to be the base of capitalism, LOL. A company can only increase their profit margin by reducing costs (and keeping the prices stable), or by increasing prices (if they have a monopoly). Since Ford is late to the BEV party, and Tesla is the actual company closer to monopoly, with the most BEV sold, and they are already reducing prices, how in HE11 would be Ford able to increase prices and outsell Tesla at the same time? LMFAO.
Yes, definitively it has to be Fartley. There are not that many 1d1ots like him, blind to the truth and trying to force the Ford Kool Aid down our throats.
Did you guys flunk econ 101? Demand is what drives what is produced. Trying to force a product on the market doesnt work. Look at the SST, BetaMAx, Quadrophonic systems, Google glass. The list goes on and on.
New vehicle purchases will no longer be attainable for middle class and below. All of the OEMs are in agreement about this. The vehicle proces are rising and our target customers will continue to afford them.
We don't want poor people representing our brands. At least not with our new vehicles. They can buy our products in the pre-owned market.
The young and affluent customer segment is growing and they want electric vehicles.
Ford will sell fewer vehicles but make significantly higher margins on them.
Let Toyota and Honda and Kia sell small two door and four door gasoline powered sedans.
ICE vehicles are and will still be declining in use as as inteneded via the Ford+ Plan. That has not changed. All of Ford leadership and the majority of employees are in support of the company direction.
Just read employee comments during any Global Town Hall chats or even the comments on the many homepage news stories regarding our electrified future.
Fuel companies will continue to raise gas prices. The fools will continue to blame whichever pres is in office. But it isn't a red or blue thing. It is corporate greed.
SCOTUS overturning Chevron will be the best thing that happened to the USA taxpayers in a while. Much less governing will be happening.
Blah blah blah, scholars have nothing to do with where this goes. Harvard - -mask up and get jabbed, Credibility = zero, nada, waste of breadth. Good little bot...