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Electrifying current models, as the article says, is a bad idea. You loose many advantages of an electric car, such as more interior room. I’m surprised Toyot

• tankenmate 9y ago
  I suspect the reason that Ford are electrifying current models is because of two reasons, a) inventors dilemma and the sales teams / channels that don't want to undercut their current stock of models, and b) for an organisation as large as Ford the change will take years to plan. I'd look for ground up EVs from Ford after two more year model cycles (i.e. about 6 years time); even if they wanted to move quicker I suspect that organisationally they'd struggle. Toyota are still wedded to the hybrid models of cars, they are the world leaders there, by volume heads and shoulders the first, by technology first or very nearly so.
• Shivetya 9y ago
  the technology is far from mature and world wide it would be even a bigger leap to electrify cars where grids are not reliable nor roads. when the sales are such a paltry number of total automobile sales its kind of hard to be behind. batteries and charging systems have a long way to go hence betting on hybrids combined with ev tech is the best bet short term. plus much work is being done in range extended EVs with the REX still up in the air. hauling a thousand pounds of batteries for the short ranges we see now is not a good solution
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