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Hush now, before they get the bright idea of charging a “low monthly fee” to keep the home backup active. These days it feels like you’re getting a deal if a one time activation fee is all they rip you off with!

You are absolutely correct that none of us know today how fast and thorough this transition will happen, I’m certainly a huge optimist on this. I’d love to see the huge batteries we’re all about to have in our vehicles to be used to support the grid while not driving. We shall see!

Luckily, in the near future we will go all in on renewables as a society, with a much improved nationwide grid that will no longer rely on dangerous, expensive, and outdated fossil fuels for peaker or base load plants. You are still stuck on where we are today, instead of appreciating the...

Only one way to find out!

If anything is to be learned from the Lightning rollout, it’s that Ford will prioritize whatever is the most profitable in the immediate future. So, highly profitable ICE models will get prioritized. Hopefully I’m wrong!

Hey, I invented that outfit! Pretty snazzy, right?

You’re starting to struggle a bit in your blind defense of Ford’s blunders. But hey, keep up the good work.

Lol! At least in a bar nobody is using that as an excuse to not have a few tonight as well. My personal, well researched observation.

Incorrect. Nobody from Ford stated at the reveal, or since, that the reservation process was merely market research. This is just you making up an excuse after the fact, which you’re of course entitled to. If the process was for research purposes only, there would’ve been zero reason to assign...

So there’s the answer for the next time someone claims that we’ll never be able to generate all of our electricity from renewables due to intermittency concerns. Thank you Ford, good job!

Ford to dealers: “Don’t worry, this Vaseline is both vegan and ethically sourced “.

Can’t brag about “200K reservations in just a few months” if you make it non refundable or charge $2K. Both of which they should have done, you’re absolutely correct here. But getting the press attention was more important to them.

I see the Stan is strong with some in this thread. It’ll be interesting to see how hard some will be backtracking when Ford does indeed, as implied, demote the dealers to mere delivery drop off points for EVs in the near future.

Pretty much spot on. Only thing I’d add is ZEV state preference, and (to us) unknowable dealer allocation as factors. These things are not necessarily wrong, but weren’t communicated properly, leading to unnecessary customer frustration.

Got the same thing. Made me laugh too. Ford is telling so many lies that they’re starting to lose track.

A year-long vacation? Dang it, Canada really does have it better!?

Considering your low daily mileage, dryer outlet would be perfect. And free, since it’s already there!

Not trying to dispute your first hand experience, but I read (somewhere on the internet, um..) that in 2020 already 30% of car purchases were done online. Probably kinda like online banking or bill pay: people are hesitant at first, but once they try it they will not go back to the dealer. That...

I think you’re correct. It would be nice if they were actually committed to supplying the $40K truck they touted from the reveal on out, in significant numbers. But nooo…gotta make that quick buck.

Yeah, but they wouldn’t have 200K reservations to brag about.