"FORD CAN'T SURVIVE THIS!" - Jim Farley in Panic Mode... BYD CHINA TAKING OVER ALL MARKET SHARE

[@baabaabathsheba9107]

EV's can be as cheap as chips but if the national grid doesn't have the capacity to support all the chargers then no one will buy them. They are putting the cart before the horse. I would never buy one because I think they are dangerous and full of nasty minerals that are very scarce. I'm 62 so 🤞ICE cars will see me through to the end of my driving days. Greetings from Cornwall. UK ✌️

[@nbrown5907]

The people that want E.V.s have them. Let them ship the cars to rot here.

[@LevyHappyClapper]

import restrictions need to be place on BYD ... not level playing field ... BYD is CCP supported

[@larryevans6739]

BYD moves very fast. 18 month product development, a ~4 year product lifecycle with a mid cycle refresh at ~2 years. Compare to Tesla's decade-long product lifecycles after a launch typically delayed by a couple of years. And BYD can pivot quickly. BYD has 90,000 engineers just in R&D, roughly equivalent to half of Ford's total employees. Sanctions have left some companies re-inventing the wheel on some IP (e.g., advanced microprocessors), but Chinese companies are overcoming that very quickly. They already have a bigger car market than the US and EU combined. To compete with China will take more than just subsidies and sanctions. They educate more engineers every 4 years than we have in total. We need to educate (and immigrate) more engineers. In addition to becoming the largest BEV maker in 4Q last year, BYD is also the largest manufacturer of plug-in hybrids (which addresses charger/range anxiety). When BYD did open a bus plant in Lancaster, California, they did so with union labor. However, their automotive manufacturing is increasingly automated, so the amount of assembly jobs might not be as much as some might expect.

[@tommanley2924]

I drive Fords on & off since 1985, no EV for me unless I have no choice. As I have said before this EV stuff should have started in the economy car market, you need to let people grow into the segment. Young adults that could easily by swayed into EV's need cheap cars, not 80K crap. But they went after lazy easy money profits, looking above and beyond their logic and dove in the deep end of the EV pool..

[@AB-coyote]

Bring back the base model Regular cab NISSAN HARDBODY’s!!‼️‼️. Those could be at for 11k at times.

[@catitude4]

People don't want these damn things. China can have them. Thousands of them are sitting on the lots and no one wants them. Too expensive when they need repairs, they explode and you can't get the fires out, it takes to long to power up, that is if you can find a place to do it and if it's working. They are very heavy, tires wear out and are expensive. No one knows how to work on them. Because they are heavy, they damage the roads. If it's cold you lose a lot distance so you have to power it up more. The power grid could never handle it if everyone had one. There is nothing good about them.

[@Paul-ng4jx]

I can’t wait for the prices to come down. Waiting for the new batteries. Blade or sodium ion because they don’t catch fire like flammable lithium plus super fast charge time. As for ford going out they have been since the Japanese started taking over in the 70s and china with evs in 2025.

[@plantfeeder6677]

I can. Ya'll are fixing a problem that don't exist and creating your own destruction. Ya'll are ignorant to what you are falling for cause you were told to blindly believe and that right there is the worst kinda stupid. Good luck with things you will never own. Remember this 20-30 years from now.😑

[@catitude4]

Why would you want this headache at any price?

[@herbb8547]

The grid still cannot handle large numbers of EVs.