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      02-07-2024, 09:29 PM   #6447
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Ford pulls the plug on EV strategy as losses pile up
02/07/2024
'Our Gen 2 vehicles won't launch unless we can get to a profit'
The reality of electric vehicle prices has finally caught up with the venerable US automaker Ford, which said yesterday that it's rethinking its loss-making EV strategy.…
The news came during Ford's Q4 2023 earnings call yesterday, and included revelations that the Detroit-based biz was also reassessing its EV battery strategy, a decision that comes as no surprise in the wake of delays announced last year.
Despite an overall increase in revenue of 12 percent and year-end profits of $4.3 billion, Ford's EV division lost almost $4.7 billion, Lawler said.
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Inexpensive, carbon-neutral biofuels are finally possible
FEBRUARY 7, 2024



Second-generation operations use non-edible plant biomass as feedstocks. An example of biomass feedstocks includes wood residues from milling operations, sugarcane bagasse, or corn stover, all of which are abundant low-cost byproducts of forestry and agricultural operations.
Using poplar in a CELF biorefinery, the researchers demonstrate that sustainable aviation fuel could be made at a break-even price as low as $3.15 per gallon of gasoline equivalent. The current average cost for a gallon of jet fuel in the U.S. is $5.96.
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If the Green Grifters really gave a dam about the environment they would be all over this development but it really not about the environment is it?
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      02-07-2024, 09:48 PM   #6449
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Bozo Admin Classifies Martha’s Vineyard, Elite Locales As ‘Low-Income’ To Push EV Charger Subsidies
Numerous elite hangouts and locales — including Montauk and Fishers Island in New York, and parts of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket in Massachusetts — are among the areas that the administration has classified as “low-income” and eligible for receipt of EV charger subsidies, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) interactive eligibility map.
“This tax credit provides up to 30% off the cost of the charger to individuals and businesses in low-income communities and non-urban areas, making it more affordable to install EV charging infrastructure and increasing access to EV charging in underserved communities,”
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Bozo Admin Classifies Martha’s Vineyard, Elite Locales As ‘Low-Income’ To Push EV Charger Subsidies
Numerous elite hangouts and locales — including Montauk and Fishers Island in New York, and parts of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket in Massachusetts — are among the areas that the administration has classified as “low-income” and eligible for receipt of EV charger subsidies, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) interactive eligibility map.
“This tax credit provides up to 30% off the cost of the charger to individuals and businesses in low-income communities and non-urban areas, making it more affordable to install EV charging infrastructure and increasing access to EV charging in underserved communities,”
https://dailycaller.com/2024/01/31/b...ger-subsidies/

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If they are classed as low income areas by the 'Administration' then doesn't it occur to them that it's unlikely that they could afford new EV's in the first place and that they are unlikely to even want them.
As for up to a 30% discount of an in-house charger, details of income and benefits would have to be supplied which adds to the s.it show of the idea.
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      02-08-2024, 07:25 AM   #6451
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Bozo Admin Classifies Martha’s Vineyard, Elite Locales As ‘Low-Income’ To Push EV Charger Subsidies
Numerous elite hangouts and locales — including Montauk and Fishers Island in New York, and parts of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket in Massachusetts — are among the areas that the administration has classified as “low-income” and eligible for receipt of EV charger subsidies, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) interactive eligibility map.
“This tax credit provides up to 30% off the cost of the charger to individuals and businesses in low-income communities and non-urban areas, making it more affordable to install EV charging infrastructure and increasing access to EV charging in underserved communities,”
https://dailycaller.com/2024/01/31/b...ger-subsidies/

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Well, they did have some undocs that were shipped up there (for a few hours anyway).
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If they are classed as low income areas by the 'Administration' then doesn't it occur to them that it's unlikely that they could afford new EV's in the first place and that they are unlikely to even want them.
As for up to a 30% discount of an in-house charger, details of income and benefits would have to be supplied which adds to the s.it show of the idea.
And this will be the ugly future look of our city sidewalk. Thank you for all the EVs. It doesn't make the city look more green. It just make the city more ugly and danger to the people who are walking on the sidewalk.
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If they are classed as low income areas by the 'Administration' then doesn't it occur to them that it's unlikely that they could afford new EV's in the first place
Maybe we are missing the real blessings here?
Public charge stations in wealthy areas provide criminals a better opportunity for high end car jacking and theft. They also provide criminal recyclers a source for copper wire. They also promote physical fitness when criminals have to run from police.

It's all in how you look at things?
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And this will be the ugly future look of our city sidewalk. Thank you for all the EVs.
I was just walking along and I tripped over some EV charge cable.
The dreams of every trip and fall lawyer fulfilled.
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Maybe we are missing the real blessings here?
Public charge stations in wealthy areas provide criminals a better opportunity for high end car jacking and theft. They also provide criminal recyclers a source for copper wire. They also promote physical fitness when criminals have to run from police.

It's all in how you look at things?
Once the rich adopt a product, it usually takes off and ends up being mass produced.
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And this will be the ugly future look of our city sidewalk. Thank you for all the EVs. It doesn't make the city look more green. It just make the city more ugly and danger to the people who are walking on the sidewalk.
I can envision a Mustang Mach E owner walking down this sidewalk, face buried in his phone looking at his FordPass app to check the SoC of his EV's battery. Trips over the wood platform and breaks his neck...
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I recently spoke to Paul Newman and a few months ago, Steve McQueen.
Neither are big fans of EV.
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I was just walking along and I tripped over some EV charge cable.
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Looking forward to it, I can pay off my mortgage with a fall!
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Found out about iPhone Shortcuts recently. Enabled some for my green grifter edition Tesla S Plaid. Had my arms full with bags so I said, "Siri, close my trunk" and it worked. Loving this cobalt mine child killing vehicle.

And this ends my TED talk. How was your day ICE bros?
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I can envision a Mustang Mach E owner walking down this sidewalk, face buried in his phone looking at his FordPass app to check the SoC of his EV's battery. Trips over the wood platform and breaks his neck...
Never would have gotten that far with all the dip****s in full size trucks backed into the curb with the bed blocking the sidewalk. Having been disabled before, this makes me pretty mad when I see it. I guess they must not mind me using their trucks for support though.
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Maybe we are missing the real blessings here?
Public charge stations in wealthy areas provide criminals a better opportunity for high end car jacking and theft. They also provide criminal recyclers a source for copper wire. They also promote physical fitness when criminals have to run from police.

It's all in how you look at things?
There's a new charging point at a local smaller store car park, it was not in use so for the first time I removed the charger handle by pressing the thumb button. The heavyish handle was hot and humming and it was raining! So putting the holder back sharpish my first thought was if I was in danger of being electrocuted, what-the-hell
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And this will be the ugly future look of our city sidewalk. Thank you for all the EVs. It doesn't make the city look more green. It just make the city more ugly and danger to the people who are walking on the sidewalk.
This is going to be a real issue. Where I live in a managed estate no one is allowed to have trailing cables or anything over the public areas so those who don't have driveways would technically be breaking the covenant.

So they're going to have to change something about it.
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So now we know from a real expert that we are on a road to nowhere with EV's.
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Tesla sold just one electric car in South Korea last month as some Korean consumers worry about vehicles made in China

Across all carmakers, the number of new EVs registered in Korea fell 80% in January from December.

https://fortune.com/asia/2024/02/07/...battery-fires/
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