Why hardly anyone is making a plug in hybrid is crazy. Battery powered for around town and gas for the long trip. Best of both worlds, but oh no, we can’t do what makes the most sense.
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It’s a crazy emotional response.
I could actually back up each of my statements with examples of how business decisions I mentioned have been successful in the past for related markets/industries.
And in response, I get that tantrum.
Oh well.
This pisses me off more than you know. I see similarities between us and that aggravates me sometimes.
I drove a 2013 from 2015 to 2022. Friends made fun of me but it was a good vehicle.
And in the process killed a lot of used car dealers.
Not the most fun to drive vehicle I’ve had. But a damn good reliable vehicle. And I fixed the “no fun” when I traded it on my Mazda 6 turbo.
edit; and if we agreed on everything it would be boring.
Of course not, I’m a capitalist. He didn’t like the price I gave him, so I still have the truck.
Naw, I'm too lazy, just to many variables in the equation. But with the prices of new vehicles today, a "massive V8" would probably set you back some serious dinero.
What are the issues with the twin turbo V6 Toyota? I just bought a 2000 Land Cruiser.....it just glides.
Just making sure you do realize that you just openly admitted that you love your HONDA RIDGELINE!! Do you wear blue dress socks with your velcro imitation berkinstocks, and have a leather belt loop phone holder on your hip
*Full admission, I test drove a Ridgeline 11 years ago and walked away thinking, damn, that is actually a good truck!
Give me a Honda Passport over a Ford Explorer any day of the week and twice on Sunday
Ford has put on hold its EV portion of their F-150 truck plant (Blue Oval City) in Stanton, TN. They will still go ahead with their battery plant expectations though.....making batteries for other companies' EVs. In the future when EVs become a viable alternative for most of the world, then they'll restart it for such. For now, they are retooling the Truck EV plant to assemble the gas ones.
There were a lot of people that were saying an EV wouldn't work for them, we didn't have sufficient infrastructure, they preferred an ICE, etc. Some of the auto industry totally ignored them and jumped head first into the EV market and now it's biting them in the ***. It's really not odd that the people who were disregarded would find that satisfying.
It's really more of a validation that the EV strategy was foolish.
You think people wanting ICE vehicles have been ignored? I mean yeah, some of the industry has ignored that group- Tesla and Rivian have ignored that group.
But that doesn't mean the group has been ignored. There is ready access to ICE vehicles of all shapes, sizes, and prices.
And you think EVs are biting manufacturers in the àss? Again, in some instances that is accurate. But in many instances, it is completely absurd to say EVs are biting manufacturers in the àss.
Some manufacturers are doing well with EVs and some aren't...which is how most industries operate.
Trying to make Honda sucking at EVs be anything more than what it is- a manufacturer didn't do a product well- is just pushing a claim to justify a bias.
Global adoption rates of EV’s has been good. It’s slower here (we have so much space, etc.), but we’re buying a million or two of them a year. That’s not nothing.
By the way, the price of fossil fuels has wrecked the popularity of two straight ADMINs. The great EV vs Gas debate kinda sucks on both sides right now.
By the way, the price of fossil fuels has wrecked the popularity of two straight ADMINs. The great EV vs Gas debate kinda sucks on both sides right now.