{"id":54672,"date":"2024-04-29T13:06:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T17:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=54672"},"modified":"2024-04-29T13:06:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T17:06:52","slug":"if-no-one-wants-it-it-wont-sell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=54672","title":{"rendered":"If No One Wants It, It Won&#8217;t Sell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2024\/04\/28\/ford-loses-1-3-billion-electric-vehicles-first-quarter-2024-delays-plans-make-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart<\/a> posted an article about the problem Ford Motor Company is having selling electric vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p class=\"subheading\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Ford Motor Company reported a whopping $132,000 loss on each electric vehicle (EV) sold during the first three months of 2024, amassing a $1.3 billion loss.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The auto manufacturer\u2019s electric vehicle unit revealed Thursday that they experienced a 20 percent decrease in sales volume and were forced to slash prices due to low consumer demand,\u00a0CNN\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/04\/24\/business\/ford-earnings-ev-losses\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">reported<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind that the Biden administration has set a goal of half of all new cars to be electric by 2030. That is only six years away.<\/p>\n<p>The article concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Ford announced earlier this month that the company will delay producing two new electric models, opting for hybrid vehicles instead.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cMany companies rushed in too fast with E.V.s that were too expensive and there was not as much of a market for them as they thought,\u201d Sam Abuelsamid, transportation and mobility analyst at research firm Guidehouse Insights,\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/04\/business\/ford-delays-electric-vehicles.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">told<\/a>\u00a0the\u00a0<i>New York Times<\/i>. \u201cThat\u2019s made it a lot tougher to sell those vehicles.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At this point I would like to mention that I think the electric Ford Mustang is an abomination that should never have been allowed to happen. I understand that its get-up-and-go would put my Mustang to shame, but it just doesn&#8217;t have the right look!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, Breitbart posted an article about the problem Ford Motor Company is having selling electric vehicles. The article reports: Ford Motor Company reported a whopping $132,000 loss on each electric vehicle (EV) sold during the first three months of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=54672\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13417,10348,6252,9372,498,1633],"class_list":["post-54672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-biden-administration","tag-breitbart","tag-breitbart-com","tag-electric-vehicles","tag-ford-motor-company","tag-ford-mustang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54673,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54672\/revisions\/54673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}