Do you have actual knowledge of this almost done product beyond having seen a “test mule?”

Do you have photos? Without those and verified manufacture plates it is vaporware.

True, but this point:

Ford doesn’t want to be forced to make shit no one will buy...

So are renewables. Which do you think will be more important in a few decades: fossil fuels or renewables?

Foreign manufacturers also have to comply with CAFE standards as much as Ford does. This doesn’t make them less competitive. Those manufacturers (Honda, Toyota, VW) have just chosen to focus a lot of efforts on selling small cars in the US where domestic manufacturers have not as much.

You are known in marketing as a late adopter. We are just exiting the pioneer stage and entering the early adopter stage of market share

But you can’t re-fuel at home and start each day with 250 miles of range

True but if a chrysler pacifica hybrid mini van can meet the standards today i don’t see why ford can’t in 2025

Range is good enough for at least 50% of motorists.

We even have 7 passenger minivan from chrysler that can do that today for under $40k

The U.S. governments job is to secure Americas energy security. Fords job is to maximize profits. These are goals are in direct competition with each other, specifically due short term demand goals dictating Fords R&D goals. which is why, as a regulatory body, the EPA puts into place and enforces regulations which…

Here’s the thing you’re missing:

Ford isn’t being forced to make “shit no one will buy”. The EPA regulations have a MPG target for each vehicle based on its size. Ford could sell 100% F-150s, and as long as those trucks got the mpg requirement for a vehicle its size, they’d be fine. Gone are the days when they’d have…

One thing that helps is that the standards are far more lax than they seem.

It is actually translates to 38mpg on the sticker.

If it wasn’t for the government then the US Auto industry would’ve gone out of business 7 years ago, if not decades sooner.

No one is paying me to say this:

They are up 30% from 2015 sales. I don’t know why people say they aren’t selling

It’s not for next year. These are for way down the line so carmakers have time to innovate.

People are not buying EV’s because they are still too expensive. Once the bulk of the R&D will be paid out, and EV’s will become on par with gasoline cars (price wise) then sales will take off.