Ford announced to NBC News exclusively that it’s going all-in on electric vehicles, pledging that within nine years, 40 percent of its fleet will be battery powered. The company will spend $11 billion to build new plants in Tennessee and Kentucky and hire 11,000 new workers. Chairman Bill Ford Jr. says that Ford is “on the cusp of a revolution.”
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I haven’t driven a Ford in over 20+ years, but for everyone hating on this, shouldn’t you be glad another American company is stepping up on the EV game?
Sure but how about the President first acknowledge the first American company actually leading the EV revolution? Can he say the word Tesla?
@elck3 Thats a given, everyone knows that even him. lol
No, gas guzzling suvs are for me.
No
It’s great to see Ford pivoting to electric, especially with the F-150, but I still don’t think they are moving fast enough. By next year EVs will cost less than equivalent gasoline vehicles and as prices drop, I don’t think anyone is still going to want to buy a gasoline powered vehicle by 2030. If Ford wants to get in front of this thing, instead of planning 40%, they should be planning 100% electric by 2030
How about investigating in chip manufacturing first?
That’s not a great idea for Ford atm. The chip shortage will end by the end of next year. A LOT of chip manufacturing capacity is currently being built around the world, and a ton of it in the US. Ford needs to focus on battery supply, motors, and ramping up production of EVs.
what about the lithium? Isn’t lithium used for bipolar disorders?
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If we are to adopt this technology on a large scale we need the following: 1. V2G/H capabilities in every electric vehicle, 2. Stand alone work place solar canopies with battery storage to maximize the solar when vehicles are not charging, and to augment low production days, 3. residential rooftop solar, 4. Retrain owners to charge vehicles while parked at work then when home discharge to the grid to support peak evening demands. Without these 4, the amount of money and time needed to have “public utility companies” respond with anything other than more gas powered plants wont meet charging demands and will only switch fossil fuel use from each consumer to the utility companies and the efficiency of them getting that power back to charging stations at homes will counter any benefits of going green in the cars. Do the math and compare your states current energy production then add in x number of cars needing 20-30Kwh per day of charging which is equivalent to what an average home uses per day… you literally are doubling the residential demand for electricity for 75% of the year… Think places like CA and TX can handle that? We are already experiencing significant grid instability with only a small number of EV’s being charged. Time to think outside the box or we are putting the cart before the horse.
Nonsense. Solar is now the least expensive new means of producing electricity. Battery storage pricing is dropping significantly. Prices will dictate and gas is dead. RIP
@morninboy Not sure what your “Nonsense” reply is about because you sound like you are disagreeing with me by saying that, yet the rest of what you say is agreeing with me.
@Chad Bear All the owner has to do is put the plug into the car (the software parameters take care of the rest). Most utilities are moving to a time of use charge, so the vehicle will automatically start charging as needed between midnight and 8AM when baseline plants that can’t be shut down are keeping baseline load. The only people who can’t do this are people who can’t charge at home (the last people to get a BEV) and people who work night shift. Even fleet vehicles like UPS, FedEx and USPS will charge overnight. Only time sensitive vehicles like express vehicles and emergency vehicles would need continuous trips to recharge during the day. The bigger issue is upgrading the electric grid. Regardless of whether its BEVs or the demand for computing, the electricity need is going to explode. Nest thermostats, routers, cloud servers and refrigerators don’t run on gas (unless it’s from burning CNG at a plant).
@Hysteresis Software parameters are assuming people programmed the vehicle/app. Time of use charge doesnt automatically control charging, it uses cost to incentivize people to charge 12am-6am and the piece you are missing is when you have millions of vehicles that start charging at 12am-6am, you create an additional peak demand which will drive electricity prices up because demand will be high so expect time of use charge to extend as more people adopt EV’s. As far as fleet vehicles, the number of them is significantly lower than EV’s and these vehicles will not have batteries significantly higher battery capacity than needed for its daily tasks as its not financially beneficial for say UPS to have a truck with 5 days of work range. These companies also are adapting the above technology I discuss… solar car ports with charging and battery storage and are not stand alone so they augment from the grid. The electrical grid doesn’t need upgrading if we utilize the potential in all of the EV’s that are only using a max of 20% of its capacity during their normal day, the grid needs modernizing in that its effectively using its assets. CA is planning on building several new gas powered plants over the next decade to meet the demands for its 5mil vehicle demand.
O Jesus that means Ford’s going to sale more pieces of sh!t. Hahahaha
$11 billion how when they already strapped with debt? make the mach e in us then. keep the transit in us.
I just cut off my catalytic converter to get better mpg.
What you put in it’s place? If nothing you’ll have problems & worse gas mileage
Hydrogen is the better alternative.
I agree. But it doesn’t seem to be part of the green push!
It really isnt.
Awesomeness IM FORD PROUD PATRIOT
Too late….
Too little…
Once a leader now a follower…not a leader!
You mean, in cars that most Americans can’t afford, and that will probably be hybrids.
Most Americans can afford them. Don’t put your bad decision making on the rest of us.
I really hope they can make them efficient so we can get the 400+ mile range as that is needed to tow and carry loads
All the prototype F150 lightnings are showing 400 miles of range. I think Ford is under promising so they can over deliver.
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Meanwhile Toyota has already had hybrids, electric cars and now hydrogen cars. Americans want cars that last not cars that have major issues before 200,000 miles.
Toyota is a EV-denier. They are actually lobbying pretty aggressively to neuter any policy encouraging quicker EV adoption. We are also at least 10 years from FC — even the most aggressive FC makers like Hyundai doesn’t plan to mass-produce them until late 2020’s. Japan’s automotive industry despite their early pioneering works is fk’ed.
Not long ago they were the ones mocking the EV.
All because of Tesla
The thing I always hated about Fords is the parts are not interchangeable. You could have 2 1967 Mustangs and the front engine cover won’t be interchangeable.
If they had launched the new bronco with an electric version I might have bought one. But for now I wait.
Same. Dream car right there if it were electric.
so have you figured ahead when 100 million batteries need to be replaced all on the same day?,where you getting all this lithium? rebuilding the old ones? where’s the battery “trash” going? spent battery materials are highly toxic, more than most anything.
are you sure this is the green new deal?. with fossil fuel fired electricity charging them anyway…..in time, this may turn around and bite us in the battery charger.
so long live oil.
…its naturally made.
Oil is naturally made? Not pump out of the ground sometimes with fracking with all kinds of nasty chemicals that pollute the water table. It’s also loaded onto barges and shipped across the ocean if it doesn’t wreck and make a huge natural disaster. Did you forget about the under ocean well that broke and leaked tons of oil into the ocean. You’re delusional enough to thing the process of producing gasoline is better for the environment than lithium mining. Keep in mind lithium can be recycled. When’s the last time you heard about gasoline or diesel being recycled? Maybe you’re thinking of catalytic converters that theifs are stealing off peoples cars to recycle for their rare and precious metals.
Battery recycling is actually a huge business opportunity worth billions. Tesla already have the organisation in place to recycle all their batteries.
Sep 27, 2021 AND NOW YOU DOING IT ! WHAT WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY ??
Nice of them to give such a large effort now….but they just don’t have what it takes. It’s like a 46 yr old adult in mid-life crisis trying to be a social media “influencer” for the first time cause “its the future”. They don’t realize their “new” electric fleet will seem so old when it still needs a human to drive.
Das Automobil ist ein veraltetes Mordwerkzeug, welches in das Gruselkabinett der Geschichte hineingestellt werden sollte. Das Auto verpestet nicht nur die Luft sondern terrorisiert Fahrradfahrer und Fussgänger.
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An all electric transit van would be dope
I think they have one already
Henry Ford did NOT invent the assembly line … he perfected it.
I bought an F150 in 2000 for $16,000. Has 276,000 on it now. 5 speed. V6. Best vehicle ever. I could never afford a new truck these days. What do people put down and what are payments on these? People must be doing well to buy these
Those are rookie numbers. 21 years and you only have 276 miles?
@Mark Trinidad I alternate 3 vehicles. I average around 35,000 a year between them. All Ford trucks!
Ford Truck has 150,000 wow!! that’s almost 12% of Tesla’s Cybertruck Pre-order of 1.3 million 😂 🤣 😂 🤣
Gas shortage at 3 Times the price???? Coming Soon!!!!!! 🤔
Your gonna buy one OR else you gonna walk…. 🤢🔫😠
Good luck everyone 😕🤷
No. Not buying a stupid battery vehicle. Stop with your stupid forced electric vehicle junk!! Your garage will burn down with an electric vehicle.
I’m fine with people wanting electric vehicles. My problem is when it gets to the point where it’s illegal to own an older model. #01powerstrokeforlife
I’ve been repairing gasoline cars for 40 years and I’m ready for electric vehicles. Sick and tired for all the grease and dirty engines.
You will have trouble making the switch, unless you only do mechanical not the engine/electric side
2035 🤣🤣🤣 if the money was there they’d do it in 5 years.
It’s not the money, it’s the Electrical infrastructure that is needed to charge these vehicles.
Most EV Plugin’s require 40AMPS (roughly) and 240volts. Most houses are powered for 100AMPS and 120volts per. Apartments and low income housing are around 60amps and 120volts. Thus a person rentings or owning a small home will need to have their landlords upgrade all of the electrical in their places. Also the power plants we have can’t support that type of pull on our power grid which means if an average power plant, lets say Coal has an Average of 3.5Billion Kwh per year and your typical house takes an average of 4000 a year, thus 875,000 homes (estimate) is powered now without Electric cars, when you add electric cars which average .36kwh per mile or 36kwh for every 100 miles .. now a 15K mile a year vehicle puts another roughly 416kwh per house meaning 1 power plant can now only power 600K homes before being over loaded thus, we should have figured out how to produce better energy and cleaner power before we tax our system and make everything blow up.
@Brad Chism You’re not factoring how much energy is used to refine, transport and distribute gasoline. Its a lot.
But also, you can build the grid while selling EVs. Its not like you need to upgrade the grid tomorrow to handle demand 20 years from now. But this is a fundamental part of Biden’s infrastructure bill. So if that passes, your point is nill.
@Todd Dammit You are correct I did not factor in what is already in place since that is the current usable energy source that has been defined and tuned for many many years.
Our grid is designed around what is already in place so being redundant about explaining what exists to what needs to change is irrelevant.
Now, according to records of the Unites States, we are out of money and our current government has caused us to go into a collapse thus a war is coming.
If you feel spending money that we so not have on something that can not exist than please keep dreaming.
Until than, reality will never change what can’t be until we become the change that is needed.
I wish you luck.
@Brad Chism Lol wow you’re real crazy.
@Todd Dammit I’ll admit I’m crazy as long as you admit you’re like the rest of the fools being blind, deaf and foolish.
I wish you well …
Thank you Elon!
100%
Good news. I’m just worried they’re not moving fast enough. They should be breaking ground on these plants next year, not 2025.
Yup. This is the reason they’ll go bankrupt
Rather have a Tesla than this.
Cool, but when are we going to have cleaner renewable energy and a better power infrastructure so don’t cause a mass blackout from too much electrical overload? – I’m just curious if people thought about what this is going to do on our power grid.
Turn the lights on during a blackout with one of these babies…yeah
Ford sucking up to biden.
Lmao no. Electric is the future. Its renewable and sustainable. Battery technology is getting better every year. You cannot rely on fossil fuels forever. It’s bad for the environment and is causing global climate changes. If you dont adapt then you will fall behind in technological advancements. Plus this new generation were more conscious about the environment compared the boomers because I would like to have a future for my kids and their kids. So stop blaming Biden and grow up and be reasonable.
I think it’s mandatory by 2040
Good thing we’re bringing in all those electrical engineers at the border.
Funny. Where’d you get your degree?
@Richard Taylor Colorado School of Mines
I wouldn’t bet on electric vehicles any time soon. The infrastructure still lacks, we still rely heavily on coal for electricity and look at what’s happening in China and Europe, their electricity prices are through the roof, even going as far as shutting down power in neighborhoods to save electricity. If we reach this point, how are we supposed to charge our vehicles. Let’s not forget during winter batteries lose charge quicker too.
People do not want electric vehicles this will cause Ford to go bankrupt, cant even get their gas vehicles out with the chip shortages.
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Its ironic that Ford wants new tech business in a state that continually stops this country from moving forward, just say no, Uncle Mitch,
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This electric vehicle crap is tragic… Nothing beats the sound of a V8 with bigger cam, roller lifters, open headers.. your little electric whizz may be fast but no sound takes half the fun away…
Electric vehicles are not going to take over just a FAD for now…they’re to expensive and the maintenance cost is ridiculous…I’ll stick to my gas powered vehicles
@AntWuane Windham Also the cost to mine and refine the lithium. copper, and other minerals for the vehicles is about the same as gas engines.
@AntWuane Windham EV’s are cheaper t maintain and run. in a few years they will also be cheaper to buy.
@Phil Terry Time will tell but I
“SERIOUSLY” doubt it
@AntWuane Windham I have no idea why you think that? following the cost reductions in the last ten years. it is inevitable.
Sounds like Ford is going to try to jump on the “job creator ” public funding scam… they put a billboard on a multi acre vacant lot ” Future site of Ford factory ” then ask for and receive with great fanfare for construction of something never defined to employ..never required by the time that they finish it can be tiny employing very few at crap wages sending some minor parts to the factory in Mexico or Vietnam for final assembly
At least their trying to do something Andrew. It took Sandy Munro a former level 12 Ford engineer openly lecturing them Youtube before they really did anything. GM CEO Mary Barra doesn’t seem to ready make a move just yet.
Its great to see Ford expand into electric vehicles, but i absolutely do not agree with setting up shop with the back door dealing Mitch McConnell and all the hypocrisy of these do nothing red states, Kentucky and Tennessee continually hold back this country from moving forward even with progressive tactics and political silliness, so wish Ford can look to expand in its own state and provide opportunities way up north where people care more than politically twisted Kentucky, its very simple, as long as Uncle Mitch keeps saying no and stopping this country in its tracks, then NO new business into Kentucky. Take a stand people.
Democrats outnumber Republicans in Kentucky by over 1 percentage point and the governor is a Democrat. McConnell only represents Kentucky to the US, the workings of Kentucky (like every other state) are dependent on the governor and state legislature. Next time do some reading before starting a rant. Democratic Republic…..
@Hysteresis uhmmm, call what you want, but the rest of America call Kentucky a red state, they have sided with the republican base since 1996, in 1976, jimmy cater had prevailed and the state sided blu, but as of today and looking like way into tomorrow, Kentucky is still a red state and red state ways, the governor hasn’t any power to flip it away from red to blu, the majority of the people have stated their wish, a RED republic, ya know the party of NO. Now granted there are two counties that establish blu politics, but overall, its a RED state, , check your facts son!
@J F I’m just stating the statistics. If you go by the analogy glass ½ empty ½ full, the glass is more one way than another. There is a quantifiable number of more D voters than Rs. That’s a fact. I don’t need my “feelings” for my cortex to assign it a voter affiliation. CA was red too and still has lots of conservatives (millions) but the entire legislature is D. The world is not static.
BTW, the whole government in the US is the party of NO. Find me a politician that calls out lobbyist money given to them – there are none. The government is not there to help you irrespective of which team you want to cheer for – the last 2 years should have made that apparent to anybody living on Earth.
Give it a few years and you’ll have 2 more blue states. Just be patient.
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Ford is making some smart moves its why i think they out of the American OEM’s will be the only ones to survie this transition. When its said and done Tesla,Rivian,Lucid and odlly enough Aptera! will be the NEW GAURD of American Auto’s. GM IS done and Chysler … well they’re already got bought soo lol.
Memphis plant? Stanton is a 50-mile drive from Shelby county. I am guessing, just a little over 250 people from the area will be employed there. This is a West TN plant. Which is exactly what the governor of that state had in mind. Not Memphians. That place cannot win for losing. Would have been better, if they plant was in Marion-West Memphis. Then Memphians would have been hired by thousands. not hundreds. But Ford and the governor, each have their own agendas. Perhaps Louisville will fare better. But not Memphis.
Lots of dead vehicles will be on the road when this plan is launched
exclusive will be when buyers get a bill for $20 thousand dollars to replace batteries! haha! FOOLS!
You talk nonsense, then call people fools.The irony is obviously lost on you.
@Phil Terry let us know when you have to replace the batteries Mr Smarty.
@zurdo In a Tesla it is around the 200,000 mile mark. The new 4680 cell will be good for around 1 million. So you might have to wait a while.
@Phil Terry you sound like a used car salesman!
I can see those chargers now, all being blocked by an F150 with a travel trailer lol. Hybrids are the best option for today’s technology.
I agree, buying a glorified battery operated golf cart is a fool’s decision.
@zurdo go ride around in your glorified go-cart and keep polluting. Electric cars are better in almost every way
@Evil Monkey no they aren’t lmao do ur research before saying anything 🤣 , ev is just as bad as gas ( destroyed environment to get lithium for batteries nonrenewable resource, needs power plants to get most of the energy to recharge them , causing insane pollution when the batteries r destroyed, and currently the U.S. power grid can barely handle the ev’s we have now, and the range of ev’s is horrible + the charge time … not gonna wait a few hours to recharge when I can fill a tank in 5 minutes and be on my way )
Can’t even get the chips in the vehicles now that are gas. Their sales are plummeting.
Joe says he wants to double the size of the IRS… And he wants to monitor any bank account that moves $10,000 in a one-year period… Most people pay over $1,000 a month rent… That would mean he wants to monitor every American’s bank account !!!!
They can’t even deliver on the orders they have now
And they want to start cranking out vehicles with more magical “chips”. I like Ford but it doesn’t make sense
A day late and a dollar short
FOUND ON ROAD DISCHARGED
nah.. I like ruining the planet
Electric batteries primarily use a chemical element called lithium. There are not that many places in the world where lithium exists, but one such place is Bolivia’s salt desert. It has the highest lithium reserves in the world. The people of Bolivia (especially those around the salt desert) are being robbed of their land by international companies coming in and stripping lithium. Worse, lithium production causes water shortage problems for its residents and, in some areas, makes the water toxic. There’s no point moving to electric vehicles if the battery production that makes it possible also causes damage to the land and people’s lives elsewhere..
Dont worry we have changed the president of Bolivia. The one that replaced is pro American. Expect American corporations to own the mines soon.
Human governments are the problem, not the solution.
With a 22 million govt gift? The efforts to go electric will eat the offset emissions, but whatever…. Go burn cash people.
Do all 11,000 new employees have to bed vaccineted
And here we go. The E-mach already has a recall 🤔
We’re rooting for you Ford!!! I’d buy a 21 century Model T in a heartbeat!
Wait for the TESLA cybertruck
But what happens if they can’t get the components?
F250 please
Henry Ford would be rolling in his grave seeing what piles of 💩 ford makes
Learn how to keep the semiconductors on stock
What is gonna happened if a high school student driving to school
Have a new electric jeep too
Ford my man. You can’t even make a decent reliable ICE car for over a century and you’re building an EV? This is how you will end up bankrupt. The CEO that currently running Ford came from the furniture business, like what are they thinking?
Ford finally reads the Tesla memo… took a while.
Planets on fire is too late for 40 percent
An Electric Maverick would be perfect for me…..
AWD for safety (can be made 2wd when 4WD not needed😅)
Extra two motors can act as generators when braking
Most of the electricity is produced by natural gas turbines. Secondly, it takes a lot of fossil fuels to mine for those precious metals and lastly, as far as I know, there are only a few lithium mines in the US. I am not against electrical vehicles I just don’t know how this is going to work or how it makes sense when we talk about it being “green”. I am happy that ford is making them in America but is it going to be at the cost of the taxpayer?
yeah…. lets go all electric with a massive chip shortage because of which you cant keep current factories going……. GREAT idea……..
Nice 👍🏻
I want one now!
They never have any EV’s on the lot. They are already sold!
I love this truck
This is a pathetic goal. Tesla is 100% electric now and its Cybertruck has over 1 million reservations. (Where’s the news story about that, NBC?) Ford is trying to play catch up and their goal is painfully slow.
Fords about to take a huge hit to their bottom line with this toy truck and so is GM. I’ll wait for their stock to tank then buy as much as I can. With little EV infrastructure or universal charging it won’t work here in the US. Europe is another story.
That is the future of cars
I’ll wait for Ram. Ford always has problems.
See, these are the people that can change the world. Major corporations making decisions that will affect the planet.
There are 5000 less moving parts in an electric car. It’s cheaper for them to build and that’s all it is!!🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
I want an electric Model T. 👍🏻😝
Good luck with that I work at Dana Corp that supplies parts to Ford and other manufacturers. The work force today sucks you’re dealing with the entitlement baby’s that want you to pay them but they don’t even show up to work ! I see a lot of problems getting 11,000 people to work. Besides we have a plant outside of Memphis where everyone walked out of. Good luck
Dream world, this is NOT smart; Ford will put themselves out of business. Just watch……