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Thank you for sharing your thoughts! It's always great to hear different perspectives on hybrid cars.

Thanks for sharing your perspective on the future of cars.

Thank you for noticing the significance of this partnership between Nissan and Ford!

The Global EV make is dead as less than 25% would be a replacement. It is irrelevant where the EV is made as is your comment

China is #2 in Billionaires per person, behind the USA. Their people have the same motivations the west has, make no mistake. LOL.

The EV market is dead and China has wasted billions on EV that no one wants

Appreciate you taking the time to share your insights on the EV market.

Thank you for sharing your insight! Offering long low-interest loans and warranties could indeed be a game-changer for consumers.

I appreciate your feedback, it's always good to hear different perspectives.

HM? i dont thing so. its PRECONDITIONING not PREHEATING and only come in to play when you need to use a public charger. and even then just like gas the price of a fill up or charge depends on where the fill up or charge is. most times for an BEV it might cost $30 or less for almost all BEVs. i have done a few long trips in my BEV. and haven really noticed a lot of higher costs of the charge. course i do recall the days of $5 and higher gas too. and you never knew before the trip how much that tank of fuel might cost you. and with lots of ICEV having 20 (or more) gallon tanks that fill up could be $100

@@davwill124 I own a Y, was getting 3mile/kwh on my road trip, down from 4mile/kwh on daily commute. Part of the loss was high speed, and preheating battery for super charging. Of course I am comparing against a hybrid, there’s no point comparing against a ICE vehicle.

I appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts on this topic. It's always good to hear different viewpoints.

It's not just a road trip. Normal everyday driving I still find it a pain to have to refuel my diesel truck. It would be a vastly bigger PITA if I had to spend a few hours charging the thing. The powerful chargers that are (relatively) quick damage your battery.

hate to tell you this but...the number of gas stations has been dropping for a while now. used to be there was about !50,000 of them nationwide. now , its closer to 110,000n and dropping. mostly cause selling fuel isnt a big money earner (there is a reason that most gas stations have fast food and convenance stores with them). part of the cost problem with them is that the tanks have to be replaced every 20-30 years, and the tanks themselves cost about $30,000 each, never mind deinstalling the old, and installing the new ones.

Funny Google says there are over 196,000 and its increasing? (Follow the data from 2014 to today and its been on the uptrend. Contrary to what you stated.) Recharging Stations got a LONG way to catch up in convenience and availability.

I appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts on EVs and hybrids. It's great to have open discussions about the pros and cons of different types of vehicles.

Thanks for sharing this insight! It's always fascinating to learn about the behind-the-scenes of industries we often take for granted.

Appreciate the tip! Audio-only podcasting could be a great direction to explore.

I appreciate the effort the dealer put in to educate himself about EVs. It shows dedication to customer service.

nah, the increase in sales is slowing. but demand isnt. now the sales and demand for ICEV is stalling. last weekend i drove past multiple dealers, and their lots were of pickups and SUVS, all of the ICEV. and every dealer i went by was like this.

yea, like most business they are conservative, they dont like change, especially big changes. and especially something that will hit the biggest source of profits for them, service and parts. after all they wont be doing man oil changes on BEVs

I agree with you. Google says that 1/3 of American live in apartments. These people, if they purchased an electric car, would be required to charge their electric car at an EV charger station. You can extend the range of a gasoline powered car by 300 miles by filling up the tank with gas. Time required--- eight minutes. If you want to extend the range of an EV by 300 miles, you fill it up with electrons at charging station. Time required -- 30 minutes or longer. An EV will become a practical choice when you can extend the range of an EV by 300 miles within a ten-minute period of time.

Making the things cheaper could be tricky, since Ford is losing - wait for it - $100,000 for evert EV sold.

well electricity is pretty cheap, as an example a 300-400 mile trip might cost you around $25 at a public charger, all that depends on who owns the charger, what their electric rate is (usually a commercial rate...lots cheaper than residential rates are). plus the DC charger is what makes its really expensive (since its a high voltage piece of commercial equipment, not cheap). while adding a L1 charger is just plugging into a 110 volt plug. L2 charging uses the 220 volt plug. and while the chargers are pretty cheap (less than $800 for full functional one (wifii connection etc). and then you need to have an electrician install that into the braker box for your house (which could require new breakers or major updates) to the braker box. and that varies on where you live (we did that years ago, cost less than a $3000, but only needed 2 brakers to be added), and L2 charger was about $800. and the charging cost us less than the cost of our dryer or HVAC to run (and we could program it to only charge on of peak times). might have cost $5-10 dollars a month vs what i recall what we paid for gas of maybe $100 a week, every week we worked for one vehicle. and while BEVs are indeed simpler in some ways, no need to a radiator, alternator, water pump, fuel pump, oil pump, and more that an ICEV requires t keep from burning it self up. but a lot of the tech in BEVs is new to the manufacturer, and is radically different to what they made before. some of its getting access to cheaper materials than what they use today, some of its newer better batteries (coming soon solid state batteries that charge about as fast as filling a gas tank, with almost 800 miles in range). and probably more room in it than and ICEV will have. and the tech for BEV is changing rapidly and has been for the last 10 years or so. so far we have an BEV that will cost about 35,000 to get with up to 300 miles in range (which oddly enough used to be what ICEV were designed to get in the 60s because you could be some place with 0 gas stations). and as far as living in an apartment have had charging available for the 20 years or so, but just the 110 plugins). and with the costs of BEVs beings looser always. well, sort of. since every new or updated vehicle will loose money as each vehicle will have to pay back the development of the vehicle. the more that are sold the faster that development cost goes down (and that include design and R&D and manufacturing set up). by the way that is how ALL vehicles make money. course i do wonder how anybody knows the cost of production cause that TOP secret)

@@bigglyguy8429 and how do you know that? Ford doesnt specify the cost or production to the SEC, and certainly wont tell anyone else. no other OEM will do it either. course you cant tell the price of production parts (vehicles with orders for parts) or spares (parts without orders). spare parts are always more expensive than production since the OEM has no idea when they will be sold. then there is labor costs. for that one has to know among other things how many labor hours does it take to build the vehicle, which can vary depending how varied a trim levels the vehicle will have (i.e. say you have the basic vehicle with few options like maybe AWD, fancier rims and tires, colors, etc. the more options there are the higher the labor costs goes up. and with more options your parts cost goes up). and of course there is the overhead that is spread across all vehicles of an sorts. course the more vehicles you make some parts and labor costs will go down since purchasing becomes buying in bulk

course if you happen to look at an OEM's vehicle you might notice it looks a lot like they took one of their ICEV and turned it into an BEV. which makes the BEV less efficient, but i suppose it makes so that the OEM can turn it into ICEV if desired. with additional development though

-GM is not an electric car company

@@RealDougFields they are trying. Either way the will be gone soon

@@jalexand007 -not sure why you dont realize Ford relys on government contracts to stay afloat. They took future contract sale as part of their bail out. Ford is no better than GM. OR any other. In fact Ford makes the crappiest cars coming out of America so thank our government and your tax dollars for that.

I didn't use those exact words but the point is the same. But you are correct, in a market where people expect to be overcharged it would be silly to be too cheap. But they are not cheap enough, the things aren't selling, and pilling up at ports and dealers. And with discounts being offered by established brands due to the downturn, it's making them more expensive.

@@williamcox1176another obvious reason is hedge against protectionism. look at what Europe is doing. With a simple 10-15% discount they're already getting hit with a 18-38% tariff wall. What would happen if they are selling at a 50% discount? It's really shooting yourself in the foot.