Ford will introduce new EVs in 2027. The technology that Ford puts in these EV are all outdated. They are already being used in China since 2023. Ford is trying to benchmark what the Chinese EV implemented. This is embarrassing.
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@gy Nothing’s free, if you agree to pick up the bill, I’ll tell you what it cost.
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Back in 1996 when I was in 10th grade in high school. I didn't have much money when I turned 17 years old and needed a car to get to my job after school. I bought a rebuilt 1974 Pinto for $300 bucks that had rusted out sections on the lower quarter panels and two bald tires. I bought some Bondo and a couple cans of spray paint to fix the rust and picked up two used tires off another Pinto at the junk yard for $8 bucks. That car was a total chick magnet for me back then!
EV's are nonsense.
Ford needs to bring back the 1977 Pinto, offering it in one color only and start selling a lot of them.
The 1977 Pinto would be a simple car to build, just like it was in 1977. Ford should not update the 1977 Pinto design at all and stick with the Pinto's engine carburetor, no electronic ignition, no cruise control, no power steering, no power door locks, no manual windows, am/fm radios in the dash, no intermittent window wipers and no air-condition.
What the fυcк — Opossums, Fred Flintstone, Dougie Powers, Inverter Harmonics, and now something about a whale?
Fine. I can play that game too.
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@g1 Maybe. Or maybe it’s just the nature of big organisms, slow to change, full of contradictions, but somehow still alive. Some of what looks like decay is just molting; some of what looks like strength is just inertia. Either way, the cycle keeps going, and everyone inside it has to decide whether they’re here to poison it or help it heal.
Let's pretend they were state of the art.... looks like John Q Public is not interested anyway.
You can slap a 900v pack in a mule and call it innovation, but if the busbar delta runs 8C hot under load you’ve basically built a fire risk, not a car. The so called delay is just validation we test across fleet variance, not one hero prototype that looks good for a press demo. That extra time keeps inverter harmonics from cooking a harness at -10F in Minnesota. It’s not slow, it’s called building something that works.
They will never deliver anything good. Garbage leadership and vehicles. They never get punished for mistakes and never get laid off or kicked out with a big boot. Always fck engineers
@eh POV: Dougie ("Doug") gets trolled into momentarily having the best day of his life. Scott Free, says the grown man. Scott free.
@fg FEDE, SCCAF and Apple Alumni who think they are experts in automotive, will solve it all. Skunkworks level of hubris is deafening.
As a senior engineer with no Ford Pension owed to me from a technical point of view I am very interested to see what this long awaited EV will be.
Aside from our overwrought PD process working in and out of the lab and vehicle has been the favorite part of my career.
The rest of our processes are absolute garbage.
@OP Tell Fred Ford that. YABBA-DABBA-DOO!
Dude, we know you are unhappy you can't do your job from a computer. Isn't there a uaw forum you can go complain with like minded people on?
@cr more like squat cobbler
@c8 do you use the same prompt to write Doug fields town halls? I remember the no a--holes one from October 2022 where he had two buckets of employees… ex rich Silicon Valley a--holes with vested stocks and legacy ford employees. Guess which flavor he preferred? Look no further than the DPD failures in Palo alto.
Skunkworks sets a high bar of former Apple Cobblers who think they are on the bleeding edge. Truth be told they are 10 years behind China in features and cost. No way in he-l will they be able to beat China. Not even Smart Pink Bunny Slippers is innovative.
What are we going to do about the EV battery graveyard impending in our future
Anyone working on something fun to address this near future?
FNV3 1990s retrofit. They lie to customers again like Intel with their CPUs.
Well, let's have more Ford people work from home then to straighten this problem out. Because slack oops I mean work from homers state they are very, very, productive when working from home and can solve any problems because they can wear raggy clothes or their bunny slippers that helps them think better.
The features and services of the upcoming Gen2 Model e products will indeed surpass the excitement of any of those China manufacturers. How do I know? I've seen it. If you did, you would know too.
Stop predicting on technology you don't understand yet.
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Half of the Ford engineers are unqualified to do the job, has no experience, not willing to learn, just want a paycheck.
The other half are waiting to retire.
Reverse engineer a BYD. It’s so easy folks
The problem with the EVs Ford tried to introduce in FNV4 was that they had too much technology built into them. It made even the “low cost” models ridiculously expensive. BYD and other Chinese manufacturers started out with very basic EVs and hit the low price point that would have sold like hotcakes in the US if we had let them. So I like the strategy of using older and cheaper tech for these cars.
@aq but they have 4.0 GPAs so why are you hating?
Model E is an embarrassment. Doug Field has hired no one of significance. The Digital Product Design team was a cesspool of Amazon flunkies with nothing to offer besides high school politics. The amount of money they wasted to show off basic prototypes is insane.