Nobody seems to get the mess our company is in. It is bad like doomsday. If this EV thing does not pan out Dearborn will be a ghost town.
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Part of the reason EV engineering done in Mexico.
Mexico’s Hoy No Circula Vehicle Driving Restrictions incentivize getting off of ICE with inconvenience factor.
Yes. So many clueless engineers. This is an example:
1901: Streets of London and other major cities were filled with horses and horse drawn carriages.
1913: Streets filled with cars.
2012: Streets of Dearborn and other major cities were filled with ICE.
2022: Streets still filled with ICE.
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Sodium Sulfur was THE Ford battery technology in the 1990s for the Ford Ecostar.
The technology was developed years before that.
You mean like the fuel cell?
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Sodium Sulfur
Who cares about or even buys a Ford in 2022 ? Ford was last relevant in 1922 with the Model T.
Um it’s the government stupid. Look up the corporate CAFE requirements the greenies pushed through. Now way on the new greenie earth ANY of the OEM’s can meet them w/o significant EV’s.
It’s crazy that people, including the government, act like EV are the only solution.
Lace up the sneakers and walk.
Dust of the bikes in the garage and pedal to stores and work. In the Netherlands they use bike as daily transport. Too out of shape to pedal get an ebike.
Just having a look around the office and around the stores 80% of the people are overweight/obese another 10% are normal-underweight due to illness.
The government could give everyone a free pair of sneakers and a free bicycle and spend far less than all the EV handouts. It would have a side benefit of reducing healthcare costs.
Mass transit can fill the gap for longer trips.
horseless carriage comment.
The past littered is with failed technology, for example, high speed unsinkable, iceberg proof, ocean liners, were supposed to carry people across the ocean.
ICE vehicles worked since there was already an infrastructure in place for oil. Gasoline was considered a waste product. The electrical grid cannot handle charging millions of vehicles. Also, the charging time still has not been addressed. This so called "fast charging" destroys the lifespan of the battery and the vehicle.
The "we don't have a choice" is BS. Where did that statement come from? Where will all of this electricity come from?
People are being sold a bill of goods on EVs, and yes Dearborn will be a ghost town.
No matter what we say EVs will replace ICE. We have no choice.
People said the same kind of things in the early 1900s. A car cannot do what my horse does.
1901: Streets of London and other major cities were filled with horses and horse drawn carriages.
1913: Streets filled with cars.
Political Science not Engineering Science. On ends just shy of knowing number shapes. .
You are so confused. I cannot buy an EV because EV does not support what I would like a vehicle to do for me. If you only sell EV, Dearborn will be a ghost town.