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"YOU VOTED FOR THIS": Ford Shuts Down Kentucky EV Battery Operations, Fires 1,600 Workers Right Before Christmas as Trump Rolls Back Emissions Rules (thedailyadda.com)
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“There are a lot more people out here living in abject poverty than what people like to think or admit to. You voted for this—and now we’re paying the price.”

Employees learned of the cuts on Monday in a video message from Michael Adams, CEO of BlueOval SK.

Adams announced the transition would mean “the end of all BlueOval SK positions in Kentucky.”

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[–] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I think it's less about aversion to EVs and more about aversion to the $100,000 price tag.

If that thing is $50k, I think sales at least stay even, if not pick up.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Someone mentioned somewhere that the original creators of Tesla aimed for the high end market because there kind of wasn't an industry around making EVs, so there wasn't a way to do economy of scale with them, so an electric car was GOING to be a luxury item. It seems like nobody has tried to change that.

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