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Ford revamps electric vehicle strategy with push into hybrids: automaker’s EV division has been losing money; pivoting from all-electric vehicles to hybrid technology could cost Ford up to $1billion (wapo.st)
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This means that the new-built vehicles will burn fossil fuels for decades to come.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Batteries are too expensive still. If the price halves one more, it will be viable alternative

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's also that they're trying to build large, expensive vehicles which need much larger batteries.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

... and using that as an excuse to remove passenger capacity when they should be expanding it.