Ford’s $120,000 failure Per Vehicle Shows California EV Goals Are Impossible

Authorized by John Seiler via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

So much for California’s mandate that “all fresh passenger cars, trucks, and SUVs sold in California will be zero-emission vehicles by 2035,” according to the California Air Resources Board. It imposed the mandate at the request of Gov. Gavin Newsom.

The all-electric F-150 Lightning from Ford is displayed at the Los Angeles car Show in Los Angeles on Nov. 18, 2021. (Freeric J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)

On April 24, Ford reported it lost $132,000 for each of its 10,000 electrical vehicles sold in the first 4th of 2024, according to CNN. The sales were down 20 percent from the first 4th of 2023 and would “drag down arrivals for the company overall.”

The fates include “hundreds of millions being spent on investigation and improvement of the next generation of EVs for Ford. These investments are years distant from paying off.” Ford is the only major carmaker breaking out EV numbers by themselves. But another marques likely propose akin fates.

Californians bought 1.78 million fresh vehicles in 2023, reported the California fresh car Dealers Association. Multiple that number by $132,000 and you get $235 billion. That would bankrupt all car manufacturer, meaning them just would pull out of selling anything in the state.

The California government would gotta set up socialist, government-owned companies to make the cars, like the infamous Yugo. Dubbed “the worst car in history,” it was sold in America in the 1980s and was made by the communist Yugoslav government just before the country itself broke up in 1991.

A man works on 1 of the last Yugos at Serbia’s Zastava car plant on the production line in Kragujevac on Nov. 9, 2008. The car becomes popular in the local marketplace due to its low price and fuel consumption. (Aleksandar Stankovic/AFP via Getty Images)

Battery Problems

The Epoch Times besides reported that same day, April 24, “Ford Recalling More Than 55,000 SUVs and Trucks in Canada Over Battery Issues.’ The Transport Canada announcement read, “A abrupt loses of power to the wheels or a vehicle that does’t restart after a start-stop event could increase the hazard of a crash. Additional, gambling lights that don’t work could make the vehicle little visible and increase the hazard of a crash.”

Also, the bridge of Canada gets truly cold in the winter. “The effects of cold weather on car batteries start to become proven erstwhile the temperature drops below freezing for an extended period,” explained United Tire & Service. “At a temperature of 32 degrees Fahrenheit, your battery will lose about 30 percent of its power. Your battery will proceed to get weaker as the temperatures get colder. In fact, your battery will lose about 60 percent of its power at 0 degrees Fahrenheit.”

In Montreal, the average low temperature in January is 10 degrees Fahrenheit. In Edmonton it’s 8 degrees.

Most of California enjoys the balmiest weather on earth. But in January 2023, the temperature around Bridgeport, close Yosemite National Park, dropped to minus 27 degrees. In specified areas, EVs are almost completely useless exception for rich people in the summer.

Cheap electrical Cars?

But isn’t Tesla working on cheater models, not just the costly ones? Aren’t they figure out what Ford could’t? “Exclusive: Tesla scraps low-cost car planes amid fierce Chinese EV competition,” headlined Reuters on April 5.

However, on April 24 Yahoo Finance headlined, “Tesla stock surges as EV maker will ‘accelerate’ the launch of cheater cars. Tesla had previously said it would focus on its robotxi product after paring back plans for a lower-cost car.”

Who knows what’s going on with mercurial Tesla CEO Elon Musk? But I would never number him out.

So what about these inexpensive cars financed by communist China? In February, the Biden administration announced it would invest Chinese “smart” cars, which like your cell phone—probably besides made in China—scoop up expanding amounts of data about your life.

“China is determined to dominate the future of the car market, including by utilizing unfair practices,’ president Joe Biden said. “China’s policies could flow our marketplace with its vehicles, posing risks to our national security. I’m not going to let that happen on my watch. ’

On April 11, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) called for banning Chinese EVs as “an existing Threat to the American car industry. Ohio knows all besides how China illegally subsidizes its companies, putting our workers out of jobs and undermining entry industries, from steel to solar manufacturing. We cannot let China to bring its government-backed cooking to the American car industry.”

So far no action has been taken. But preliminary Republican nominee Donald Trump in March promoted he would impose a 100 percent tariff on Chinese cars, EV or otherwise, built in Mexico.

No CO2 Threat

Meanwhile, The carbon monoxide emitted by gas and diesel engines is being shown not to origin global Warming. Reported No Tricks Zone, “Three Polish physicists have focused their attention on this saturation chief as it applies to CO2 in 3 late published papers (Kubicki et al., 2024, 2022, and 2020). Their latest (Kubicki et al., 2024), published in Applications in Engineering Science, summarizes the experimental evidence from their 2020 and 2022 publications entering the conclusion that ‘as a consequence of saturation processes, issued CO2 does not straight origin an increase in global temperature. ’

“The authors are agreed about the fresh push to trust on modeling and assessment about CO2’s capacity to drive changes in global temperature alternatively than observational evidence. They point out the current CO2-is-the-climate-control-knob zeitgeist is no more than a hypothesis.”

The scientists themselves gates: “This unequivocally suggests that the officially presented impact of anthropogenic CO2 increase on Earth’s climate is simply a hypothesis alternatively than a substance fact.”

As I have written respective times in The Epoch Times, the CO2 from California vehicles is minuscule composite to the massive shipping from coal plants inactive being built in massive numbers in communist China. See from March 25, “‘Green Innovation’ survey Shows California CO2 Policies Mainly aid China.”

Conclusion: EV Mandates Are a Delusion

California's 100 percent zero-emission vehicle mandate by 2035 is simply a tailpipe dream. It’s pushed by ambitious polyticians like Mr. Newsom and financed by billionaire environmentalists like Bill Gates. It has no basis in reality.

At any point in a couple of years, a coalition will form to get free of these seats, as well as president Biden’s national goal of more than half of all vehicles sold being EVs by 2030. car dealers, especially in California, will work with automakers and the Democratic-aligned United car Workers union to push the mandates further into the future, say 2045. Later, the date will be pushed to 2055, and so on.

Mr. Newsom’s word as politician ends in January 2027. president Biden, if reelected, must leave in January 2029. California’s word limits besides a maximum of 12 years in the Legislature.

Today’s politicalians will be gone shortly enough, their green battery dreams wafted distant like the stick exhausted from a classical 1957 Chevy.

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