Article

2024-08-22 Economy

Ford kills electric SUV as EV division is on pace to lose $5.5 billion this year

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-08-22 06:11|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top

#1 ...But there was just no way it would ever meet our criteria of being profitable."

Old Jim Farley, he gets up early. Mind like a steel trap that lad. Top marks in college ECON. Top marks.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-08-22 06:19|| 2024-08-22 06:19|| Front Page Top

#2 'Toxic' Tesla Semi Fire Closes Part of I-80 Indefinitely as Firefighters Let It Burn

Posted by Skidmark 2024-08-22 11:54|| 2024-08-22 11:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Looks like normal turnout gear, so that shit smoke is getting all over their skin and into the gear.

Get a remote monitor to contain the fire so your people can be mostly out of the haze, and start dumping sand or concrete on it.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-08-22 17:11|| 2024-08-22 17:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Heading to Sierra Buttes next week, was already planning to route through Downieville. Good to know.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2024-08-22 18:25|| 2024-08-22 18:25|| Front Page Top

#5 South route 395 between Burcham Flats Rd and Sonora pass is scheduled to be shut off Sept 4th with detour thru Yerington to Holbrook Junct. Good Times

Posted by Frank G 2024-08-22 18:55|| 2024-08-22 18:55|| Front Page Top

#6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_pump

I suppose burying a EV Fire would look like a Chernobyl solution, so bad PR.

*many battery fires do not require oxygen to continue reacting. What has to be considered when discussing a switch-out with IC vehicles. Why there is a movement EVs should have a placard, just the transport vehicles must do when transporting said batteries.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-08-22 21:13|| 2024-08-22 21:13|| Front Page Top

23:53 Pancho Poodle8452
23:00 Elmemp Prince of the Mongol Horde4781
23:00 Elmemp Prince of the Mongol Horde4781
22:54 Canuckistan sniper
22:41 ruprecht
22:00 DarthVader
22:00 DarthVader
21:59 DarthVader
21:57 DarthVader
21:28 Anomalous Sources
21:26 Anomalous Sources
21:13 swksvolFF
21:04 trailing wife
20:36 Alpha2c
20:14 Lord Garth
20:10 Grom the Reflective
19:53 USN, Ret.
19:48 Elmaper+McGurque1612
19:47 Rambler in Virginia
19:43 USN, Ret.
19:38 Rambler in Virginia
18:55 Frank G
18:25 Rex Mundi
18:23 swksvolFF