Thanks for the shout-out to my channel - I really appreciate it - and well said! If Ford featured amazing stories like these, they would have sold buckets more. Also, I've never seen their ads take on the FUD-chuckers head-on. So I guess I'll just keep doing it for them!
zero chance of that being true
Well if that's the attitude Ford Motor Company shares, their electric truck will forever be <5% of their full size truck sales.
What you are proposing makes zero business sense. The number of people who might (never mind would) buy that truck because they actually and regularly need 450 miles of EV range is small. The average American drives less than 40 miles per day. The average truck driver most probably more. Towing is an edge case for most, not a requirement. Genuinely long distance road trips are an edge case for most (the Lighting handles my not that long 500 mile road trips with aplomb, particularly now that Tesla infrastructure is open to us and ubiquitous). Regardless, the overwhelming majority of actual use cases are nowhere near your thresholds. GM has already delivered close to that range, but in a truck that's massively heavier, more expensive, considerably slower, no more efficient than ours and which takes forever to charge on reasonably representative home L2 infrastructure. These trucks aren't selling because they lack these capabilities. Ford judged the Lightning about right, IMO. What you're asking them to build is unreasonable and unnecessary.
Why should it be on Ford (“they”) to do all that? Should they buy all the gas stations too? And how about the fact that most public charging is absurdly expensive relative to home charging? Or that many people live in apartments or in cities and don’t have a place for a home charger? And should they further spend billions subsidizing something people aren’t buying after 3 years?! Consumers find great products with zero advertising all the time…the demand simply isn’t there. I love my truck as much as the rest of the people in this forum…but it’s absurd for one company to solve it all. And it’s not like this is a US-specific problem on top of all that.
Respectfully, what you're saying makes zero sense. EVERY single time a reporter asks
These are people that get their talking points and world view from Facebook groups. Ford, thankfully, does not.
BEVs can't do what ICE cars can do when it comes to range or fueling, yet the Model Y is one of the best selling vehicles period. Maybe the difference is that Tesla isn't hampered by its dealers the way Ford is.
I have a friend who asks me to negotiate his car deals because he HATES dealing with dealers. In addition to a least dozen that I've negotiated for friends and family members, I've bought 72 new vehicles for myself since my first in 1970.
