My prediction: the 2028 Ford Taurus will be all new, but obviously a re-badged BYD sedan, and it will cost $50,000.
It won’t be specifically a Taurus or a Ford, but there will be US cars that are rebadged Chinese cars, with a 300% markup because shareholders.
Does anyone remember the Ford Courier, Chevy LUV, and Dodge D50?
They’ve been hiding behind the chicken tax, aggressively marketing high margin pickup trucks that only appeal to the local market for decades.
They only make 40% of cars sold in USA. Chinese EVs may push them over the edge but they’ve been teetering there since the Japanese invasion in the late 1980s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automobiles_manufactured_in_the_United_States
Also, less of, say, the Ford F-150 is done in the US than are Honda’s or Toyota’s models, so at some point, the question of what exactly one means by “US auto manufacturer” does arise.
What does “X country corporation” in any industry mean when they have shell companies in the Cayman Islands, Isle of Man, Ireland or wherever tax rates and shelters can be best structured?
Corporations have always been and will always be resource leeches that will abandon a country once they no longer have any blood left to suck. The host organism here in the US has already been overcome and Corps are about to start digesting previously pristine federal lands and forests for mining, forestry, and the critical national interest of off-road ATVing.
There are no “country” corporations, they lobbied to be extra-national deliberately.
They only need to keep it going until the total collapse of civilization due to climate change!
American car makings are raping us. It is time for that to end.
I really wish EV manufacturers would get around to targeting fleet pickups. Generic, bare-bones, featureless trucks.
That sounds a lot like Lordstown, which collapsed incredibly soon after beginning production. Part of the issue was that their target audience (fleets with basic work trucks) isn’t so fond of relying on a small, unestablished startup.
Lordstown Motors got done in partially by its own management, partially by a short seller screwing them over. It had little to do with fleet customers.
Like Slate? I have high hopes for them but the price is already creeping toward $30K.
It’s officially $25K now. The original target of $20K was based on the idea that the $7500 EV rebate existed, which it did when they first announced the Slate. I’m super interested in the Slate, but I don’t need a new car yet and I have a gut feeling that there will be laws forcing newer models to include a bunch of phone home spyware bullshit in all vehicles soon, which would take away much of the appeal of the Slate.
The price leaked at ~$25k
I’ve had my Slate reservation for over a year now, and will make the deposit on the 24th. I can’t wait! :D
https://www.electricforall.org/rebates-incentives/
They do say that while the federal rebate is gone, some state rebates do still exist.
I can forgive and even cheer the absolute bare bones amenities it offers including no telemetry for the price. The hardest pill to swallow is the lackluster battery range and max charge rate.
There’s also the Telo MT1. Costs significantly more, but I understand that it’s expected to have a longer range. It’s also a small EV truck.
I mean, this is a more complex issue. We actually need to change transportation and not just the type of motor and Western car makers like in the US or Germany are idiots for sticking to combustion engines. But… It’s difficult to compete with Chinese companies that can utilize slave labor and heavy government subsidies.
cant be a cheap EV, over overpriced one that nobody wants to buy.
Thanks for that.
