‘biggest scam of modern times’

[theblunden]

The truck isn't perfect by any means but I love mine. This guy seems like a highly uninformed buyer which isn't helping anyone. What happened to Ford training their staff to guide new buyers.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/technol...y-road-trip-chicago-biggest-scam-modern-times

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[brewski]

The guy in the article is an idiot.
The article mentions at the bottom it was originally written a year ago.

 

[hturnerfamily]

it's just the silly nature of someone 'capturing' a story, whether true or not, whether factual or not, but certainly 'sensational' to some readers... I am not one of them.

 

[hturnerfamily]

Vehicles have never been perfect, and never will. There will always be a story that a sharp writer can 'sharpen' their pencil on and release as a story about a vehicle giving a customer 'problems'...

most all of us have enjoyed our Lightnings from day one, but they are not perfect. Nor are Teslas, nor Rivians, no GMs, etc. It's the nature of the business. You hope you get a 'good' one, and most of the time most folks do, and we don't hear any 'horror' stories... that only comes from the very few, but they are very LOUD!

 

[EdRudy]

I hear that crap all the time. People say the range sucks, they catch fire, they cost more to charge than ICE vehicles, they can't tow... And most, if not all, have ever owned or even driven an EV. People believe what they want to believe. Forget about facts.

 

[Silenze]

Your average person can not buy an electric vehicle. There is zero dealer training and support. My wife would have no idea where the charge port is. What charger plug to use at the station. what app to use and how to get the charger to work. Or even where chargers are located.

 

[mattskr]

The story of this one particular idiot is quite sad. He didn't research a damn thing, overpaid for everything, and then blames the truck and Ford.

Would this qualify as a news story if he bought an exotic sports car instead? He'd probably be shocked he had to buy expensive specialty tires, have to wait even longer for parts if it was wrecked, discover it can't fit his family on a road trip, premium gas is more than regular, etc.

The fact is he bought a vehicle that didn't suit his needs and good ol' Fox just bundled his story into another conservative media EV-hater clickbait article. Unfortunately, people read this and other garbage online and it sets back EV adoption.

Also the article claims it was purchased in Jan and was in the shop for 6 months so at MOST the guy had a month or two with it. Meanwhile, I did my research and love my truck.

 

[Count Orlok]

I didn't see a link to a news source.

 

[vandy1981]

This is an infrastructure problem and an education problem. It's not a problem with the truck. Chargers need to work and dealers need to take the time to educate their buyers before and after purchase.

The real scam is the way that dieselgate mitigation trust money was used to build out the charging network. Billions of dollars were spent and we ended up with an unreliable EA and a smattering of variably maintained 60 kW chargers in random and inconvenient locations.

I don't understand how this became a story. In college, my gas gauge stopped working on my 1999 Chevy Monte Carlo and I ran out of gas on the side of a busy and dangerous highway. Should I have called CNN?

 

[Jenkins5286]

This has been picked up by several sites now (I saw it linked by Yahoo Finance). It's a shame uninformed people like this are highlighted by media. He posted this on his personal Facebook and reading it tells me all I need to know about his intelligence.

 

[Jenkins5286]

I didn't see a link to a news source.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/electric-vehicle-trip-charging-infrastructure-1.6932074

This is the original.

 

[The Weatherman]

One of the reasons these negative story’s get so much coverage is that this technology is not supported by the major oil industries (yet). Stated another way, there are a lot powerful people (companies) out there would love to see it fail.

 

[cdherman]

The ONE thing that does pose some questioning is why a small fender bender landed his truck in a shop for 6 months. That aspect is something I worry about quite a bit with all my BEV and PHEV vehicles.

I think most of us agree that for most people having ONLY BEV transportation is just not a place to be quite yet.

I am moving the needle in getting my brother/father to add one Lightning to their stable of work trucks at our farm. Currently there are 5 pickups there and probably 4 get used every day. The 3/4 ton that is used for towing gets the occasional day off. They are the perfect scenario. It will painful when they baptize the Lighning with some scratches from barbed wire, or a cow dents the door. But it is what it is!

 

[Jim Lewis]

Seems like he paid way too much for his home and work chargers, but the last straw for him was a family road trip to the U.S.

Man forced to ditch Ford EV truck during family road trip to Chicago: ‘biggest scam of modern times’ | Fox Business

Not the kind of publicity Ford should be getting ...

The news at the end about public-facing chargers coming in 2024 to all Ford dealerships is nice news ...

 

[Jseis]

~25% of YouTube titles are essentially click-bait to useless reviews.

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