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2024-04-30 Economy
Ford Loses $1.3 Billion on Electric Vehicles in First Quarter of 2024, Delays Plans to Make More
[Breitbart] 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.

The auto manufacturer’s 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, CNN reported.

The revenue for Ford’s EV car, the Model e, plunged by 84 percent to about $100 million, which the company blamed on EV price cuts across the auto industry.

"That resulted in the $1.3 billion loss before interest and taxes (EBIT), and the massive per-vehicle loss in the Model e unit," the publication noted.​

The recent figures are part of a trend of loss for Ford, with their Model e reporting a full-year EBIT loss of $4.7 billion on the sale of 116,000 units. This is an average loss of $40,525 per vehicle — and even that is just a third of the per-vehicle loss seen in the first three months of 2024.

Now, company officials are estimating that their EV division will lose a grand total of $5 billion this year, up from $4.7 billion last year.

"Americans don’t want EVs at levels Biden’s climate hysteria require," author and businessman Andy Puzder wrote on X. "Ford’s EV Q1 losses soared to $1.3 billion — a ridiculous $132,000 per EV sold. All Ford’s profits came from combustion engine vehicle sales. Collectivist policies destroy prosperity."
Posted by Besoeker 2024-04-30 04:15|| || Front Page|| [11157 views ]  Top

#1 Was eliminating US domestic EV production actually the plan ?
Posted by Besoeker 2024-04-30 04:20||   2024-04-30 04:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Why do they hate me ?
Posted by Besoeker 2024-04-30 05:00||   2024-04-30 05:00|| Front Page Top

#3 IMO, USG's (like all Globalist) plans are ritualistic rather then goal oriented.
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-04-30 05:01||   2024-04-30 05:01|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ Suri, Nabali, Malot....same fruit, no ?
Posted by Besoeker 2024-04-30 05:05||   2024-04-30 05:05|| Front Page Top

#5 They were going to make up the difference by volume of sales.
Posted by BrerRabbit 2024-04-30 06:32||   2024-04-30 06:32|| Front Page Top

#6 Electric cars would be great if we built out a few thousand terawatts of new nuke plants and all the transmission and charging infrastructure to support it.

But Ukraine....
Posted by M. Murcek 2024-04-30 07:46||   2024-04-30 07:46|| Front Page Top

#7 How would the cash flow look if we canceled subsidies?
Posted by Super Hose 2024-04-30 11:57||   2024-04-30 11:57|| Front Page Top

#8 More money for Ukraine. Win-win.
Posted by M. Murcek 2024-04-30 12:05||   2024-04-30 12:05|| Front Page Top

#9 $1.3B on it's way from the DOE to F.

And another $130M to "The Big Guy, Inc."
Posted by Gleremble+Bucket3559 2024-04-30 20:41||   2024-04-30 20:41|| Front Page Top










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