Did it ever occur to you that maybe there isn’t some big decided-upon “view” on EVs and these journalists are just calling it like they see it and sometimes where these sites end up is just above or below what you personally think and therefore you feel like certain sites are particularly pro or anti EV?

Looking at ‘22 and ‘23 Prius sales will be very misleading. ‘22 was the end of the previous generation, and the new model wasn’t in full production at the beginning of ‘23 and it is currently outselling last years numbers.

Jalop has been pushing EV’s as hard as the rest of them. The commentariat as well, with what seems very few readers replying with “Hold up a minute” on EV’s. But even Jalopnik can’t ignore what’s happening with the market.

It’s better than tanking the economy and throwing 100's of thousands out of a job. <shrug> And the bailouts were all paid back, with interest, so I have no problem with that at all. The 2008-09 crisis was certainly not of the automaker’s making due to bad business decisions.

Or alternatively, they are both businesses, not charities. So maximizing profit is actually what they DO. If you don’t like it, go raise a few 10's of billions and start a charity automaker to make cheap cars for the poors. They won’t actually buy many and you will go broke, but you can feel good about doing it I…

They’re asking for raises PLUS the reinstatement of COLA (tied to the CPI), which (if I remember correctly) both Ford and GM have agreed to. Not sure about Stellantis.

Corporate greed? Ford offered a 20+% raise and that wasn’t good enough for Shawn Fain.

They have no problem getting credit *while they are profitable*. If they stop being profitable, that credit dries up. Fast. Tech companies and startups can get away with not being profitable for years, established car makers can't.

The longer this strike goes on, the more time these manufactures have to figure which plant they will close and move production to Mexico.

As a salaried employee at one of the D3 automakers I have so many conflicted feelings about all of this. I absolutely want our represented work force to do well. At the same time I do fear how big wins will impact me. As an example, we have yet to receive our open enrollment information for the upcoming benefit…

Tech companies are special. They are essentially borrowing money to stay afloat while being unprofitable. And that works because people expect that they are opening up a new market and thus have a capability to be wildly profitable in the future.

“These are supply-chain managers, finance wizards...”

29 million is a lot of money no doubt, but lets say Fords CEO decided to work for free.  That 29 million divided up across 57000 hourly workers is $508 a year.

Personally, I think hydrogen can or could be very useful in long haul trucking and possibly other shipping methods. I don’t think it will be super useful in personal transit, but we don’t really know yet. 

If you don’t have money to invest in new products, new technology, etc., those workers will be laid off when Ford doesn’t have relevant product to produce and sell to the market.

I live in San Diego County - that is why I gave an example of a road I travel all the time.

7 lanes total, not 7 lanes per side right?

“36 percent of Americans side with striking workers, while just nine percent are backing GM, Ford and Stellantis.” So the correct answer is that 55% of Americans don’t care at all.

Hold on one second. If you had a green light to walk, that means the through traffic also had a green light. And the right turner also had a greenlight to turn right without stopping.

If you’re the kind of person who’s going to be oblivious enough to mow someone down in a crosswalk, you’re the kind of person to also ignore a “no turn on red” sign.