Ford, the ONLY private USA car maker remaining, over their head in CHINESE EV DEALS. All their TV about being on top of EV must be lies.
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You Can't Make This Shit Up
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Date: November 07, 2021 03:02PM
* Ford released videos that USA's salt flats had "plenty of lithium for USA's EV endeavors".
> We find out later all EV's batteries are MADE IN CHINA.
* Ford claimed same video they patented the only viable Li Batt tech - thin film batteries. IT'S ACTUALLY JAPAN who specialized in making Electrolytic capacitors, and probably the British who first industrialzed the CAPISTAN used for that hundreds of years ago.
> It's untrue china doesn't make them or that Ford has a patent
. China has probably 50 EV makers who can produce at volume. Maybe 25 of them are Auto. USA has 3 - and all the parts are from CHINA.
* FORD has "huge ventures" to own various brand/models Chinese EV. They are NOT "developing EV" they are buying EV brands.
> There's a throat cutting difference. The jobs are in China, culturally conceptually they are a chinese creation, and Ford's claim of ownership is debt on paper only - which chinese do not respect. Ford's ownership only reduces Ford's losses - and doesn't help USA at all.
> HOWEVER - at the same time of leveraging losses - they invest in chinese progress to beat them the next time
the below is about rising car prices. i make no motion that diesel should be EV
*** NEW FORD SMALL TRUCK raptor: $111,000 ***
Large trucks - $60,000 - $80,000 (and higher diesel utility)
Regular nice truck 2 door: $50,000
Regular truck 2 door: $38,000
Ambulance: $500,000+
Fire: $1,000,000+
(source: craigs list ad)
In the late 1990's a friend complained to me "OMG to stay in business I need a truck they are $40,000 and up now instead of $20,000"