>Ford Blue, the unit that sells internal combustion and gas-electric hybrid vehicles, made just over $10 billion before taxes during the last two years. Ford Pro, the commercial vehicle unit, made $5.9 billion during those years, the company said.

They litterally said they resplit their companies from regions to products to show how their bread an butter(the one with 20+ models is stil profitable while the one that is developing (the one with 3 models with a ton of R&D) is the one with debt. They still make 16bn on ICE cars and trucks while losing 3bn on models not even 2 years old.

If I'm reading between the lines, the division with all the growth is losing money as all the R&D is overhead cost and the sales are starting to return revenue.

Ford gets to tell their investors that they are making good money by putting all the rightful debt spendings on EVs while their earnings numbers are untouched.

Even in the report it says they expect EVs to drag on a short to mid term basis.

This is exactly where they wanted to be.

10 years ago, Ford would have had to make a very different looking vehicle with unimpressive fuel range, and a push to have an infrastructure for electric charging.

Tesla managed to do all this and party tricks and Cellphone back and forth at the expense of build quality.

Now Ford and others manufacturers have most of the political backing and infrastructure to make better built car with price per volume and better manufacturing techniques inside a conventional looking vehicle.

The big manufacturers didn't want to fail such a niche plan, meanwhile, a Startup like Tesla had everychance of succeding or failing. And it succeeded.

The problem with no 3 is coward cops who are already playing the stats to avoid responsibility.

There are already known cases of Cops purposely taking the long road to incidents to be second on scene and avoid paperwork. There are also cops who don't want to intervene as they are under investigation and there is the "blue Flu" where cops en mass use their PTOs to skip civil unrest days.

The worry here is too many bad cops trying to keep a clean file by never being there while the good ones burn out from always leading interventions.

This was ALWAYS the plan for automakers,they knew they could make better cars in under 5 years if the demand is there, they just didn't want have to do the marketing. Why are people shocked.

No manufacturers could get away with redoing a platform from front loaded mass above the front wheel center caps to a much heavier, along the floorboard center mass.

EVs also need small truck-like suspension that needs to be lightweight. It's was too far a jump in experiment for a niche market for any brand to risk.

Tesla managed to rebrand EVs by packaging them as Smartphone on wheels, fully integrating software and hardware and the crazy straight line race numbers.

The demand is still there so of course manufacturers are now hands on with it.

The only thing Tesla has going is they are still considered Luxury where people will overpay to have one but for how long?

Probably cost too much because nothing happened. So they hired cheaper and now it happened.

What i'm saying is even if you take 10 cards, shuffle them and put them back with the rest, that 52 card order is still one of the many possible orders that could happen if you shuffled all the cards( it would be a bad one but still ine of the possibilities.

Same as what are the chance the a 5 ball lottery winning ticket is X-Y- 48-49-50. Is it a bad sequence but it is still a ticket that has as the same chance of winning as a really random ticket like 9-23-29-36-42..

Wouldn't the part that has been shuffled still be part of the possible permutations? Like shuffling 10cards out of the bunch would still be 10! *1?

Your early diet and the context/experience linked to it has a huge influence on it.

Ask yourself what would be your perfect 3 course meal with drink and then ask what are your earliest souvenirs of the ingredients you like the most of that meal.

Then imagine the worse 3course meal of hell and do the same thing. Chances are the good things are from good times and the bad times remind you of things and souvenirs you never liked.

Autocorrect sucks and I'm also bad at proofreading while on break. If it isn't red and underlined, I'll figure it out later.

This article explains nothing on the matter.

Does GM officially endorse and targets repairs on Teslas or are dealers(or mega dealers) using their cross manufacturer connections to get it done?

For exemple, lots of dealer networks just setup a big used car network to funnel less desirable trade ins to and use all the dealers to get parts. You come and trade in an Audi at a BMW dealer, if it is low mileage, they sent it to the Audi dealer to be certified and sold at premium in the group, if it has more mileage, it gets sent to the used car outlet who will use local car parts and parts from the Audi dealer.

In this way, a GM dealer could be seen as flipping Teslas and thus repairing them.

In an other way, customers could have figured out that it is cheaper or less time to repair to just go to a GM dealer, talk with the service advisor and get brakes, Suspension, wheels and other fast moving repairs done than to deal with the hassle of Tesla's post sale service.

Last could be that Tesla has yet to make proprietary OBD codes around their EV diagnosis and most EV techs can easily work on all EVs which, Not only GM but Nissan, Ford and others do.

All of this can be intercepted as what is being told through the grapevine.

Anti microbial materials and coatings are rather expensive and would eventually be a hazard if they corroded or disolved into the water meant to evaporate.

Also not mentioned is that the evap system could sense a leak and make a check engine if it runs with no vacuum.

I guess the 2 or 3 guys who tried it ever since the pandemic at our workplace just fell flat and moved on then.

Granted 2 of them did it for 6 months before leaving, one of them did say they were in it to boost their revenue.

The opposite is also frequent.

New hires in November and December doing it for Xmas Gifts or hires in January-February looking to boost their revenue for a mortgage application.

They do very well then start no showing after their 3 months

They started storing the very cheap stuff overseas and putting importing fees.

It's like the 4th out of 8 order where one of the item is very cheap but still top brands, has import fees, takes almost 5 days to appear on the tracking, then it geta to an amazon terminal where it is declared loss and you have a 50/50 chance of it still making is way but late or getting a refund.

Old people tend to get tired and bored after retirement which can go into anything to get someone's attention, mental weakness as to something as basic as saying no to persistent people and believing they are taking on a new adventure.

Solicitors know this and take advantage of this. This is why political officials love to go by senior homes near election campaings, why your parents can go in a dealer with a beater compact and come out with the Fully loaded new version of the same model with ridiculous APR, why telemarketers used to get a game face as soon as an old grandma would be on the line ect.

On the other end, the Phone, the TV and buttons are what they used to live by, some kept up and are into social media, layered menus and verifying sources while others will still think if it came from the phone and is a polite person then it must be true.

Mostly by watching a lot of television and getting to know the key words while talking.

Reading and writing is harder since there are lots of unpronounced letters and grammar to take care of which can make the words sound completely different.