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Jim Farley: Watch how we are going to scale up our BEV capacity to 600,000 by the end of 2023

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Cringed a little when in the beginning they showed the beautiful ag land with the new Blue Oval City and the battery plant graphics superimposed on.
 
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The biggest issue is the DC fast charging infrastructure isn't going to be able to keep up with the number of EVs being produced. Ford doesn't seem interested at all in addressing this. Look at how many chargers Tesla is having to add due to their volume.
 

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The biggest issue is the DC fast charging infrastructure isn't going to be able to keep up with the number of EVs being produced. Ford doesn't seem interested at all in addressing this. Look at how many chargers Tesla is having to add due to their volume.

The Law of Unintended Consequences in action.

If the infrastructure doesn't get ahead of this we are gonna have to deal with long wait times if traveling. Right now, I never see a charge location full. That would def change in this scenario
 

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The biggest issue is the DC fast charging infrastructure isn't going to be able to keep up with the number of EVs being produced. Ford doesn't seem interested at all in addressing this. Look at how many chargers Tesla is having to add due to their volume.
Although, not good for us, Ford is being smart on this. They can't afford to build the charging infrastructure. There will be a lag, but if the the vehicles are out there and people are willing to pay to DC fast charge, someone will build it.

My opinion is the today's EVs are for those who nearly always drive less than 200 miles per day and have a second ICE vehicle in the household. Those thinking it's a daily "road trip" vehicle are usually not happy. In 5 years, the infrastructure may be there to easily make long distance trips, and then EVs are for the masses.
 

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Jim Farley shares this clip about Ford's all-in strategy on electric vehicles.

That clip was back in 2022. I believe things have drastically changed with fords EV'S since then. I love my lightning but rather glad there are not as many others going to EV'S as expected. When that happens you can bet the cost of electricity will have to increase. We need to focus on our outdated electrical grid. Take a look at California, they won't even let them run their air conditioners, soon they'll be telling them they can't charge their EV'S.
 

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That clip was back in 2022. I believe things have drastically changed with fords EV'S since then. I love my lightning but rather glad there are not as many others going to EV'S as expected. When that happens you can bet the cost of electricity will have to increase. We need to focus on our outdated electrical grid. Take a look at California, they won't even let them run their air conditioners, soon they'll be telling them they can't charge their EV'S.
And the thread is from Feb 2022...
 

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