{"id":2305260,"date":"2024-07-22T11:57:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T15:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ford-converts-electric-vehicle-factory-to-build-gasoline-powered-pickups\/"},"modified":"2024-07-22T12:01:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T16:01:18","slug":"ford-is-converting-an-electric-vehicle-factory-to-produce-gasoline-powered-pickups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ford-is-converting-an-electric-vehicle-factory-to-produce-gasoline-powered-pickups\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford is converting an electric vehicle factory to produce gasoline-powered pickups"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fford-is-converting-an-electric-vehicle-factory-to-produce-gasoline-powered-pickups%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2305260&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Ford has changed its plans to\u200d build electric SUVs \u2062in Canada and will now focus on producing pickup trucks \u2063instead, citing\u2062 consumer demand. This decision reflects a broader trend in the industry, with General Motors also adjusting its production targets for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-climate-agenda-wont-replace-jobs-it-seeks-to-kill-separate-ap-wapo-fact-checks-suggest\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Climate Agenda Won\u2019t Replace Jobs It Seeks To Kill, Separate AP, WaPo Fact-Checks Suggest\">electric vehicles<\/a>. Slower sales growth in the EV market has led\u2063 automakers to reassess their strategies and prioritize profitability. Despite initial projections of\u2063 manufacturing millions\u2064 of EVs annually, the reality of market demand has prompted a shift towards <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-ca-dem-senators-tell-biden-to-set-hard-date-to-eliminate-sale-of-gas-powered-vehicles\/\" title=\"Two CA Dem Senators Tell Biden To Set Hard Date To Eliminate Sale Of Gas-Powered Vehicles\">gas-powered vehicles<\/a>. Even in California, where \u200bEV adoption was expected to be\u200d high, sales have not met\u200c expectations. The shift in focus towards traditional vehicles highlights the challenges facing the EV market and the need \u200dfor \u2063sustainable growth strategies.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section>\n<p>Ford had plans to build a lot of electric SUVs at a plant in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, it decided to make pickup trucks that people want to buy.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the automaker is putting off plans for electric versions of its Ford Explorer and Lincoln Aviator and will churn out Super Duty pickup trucks at its Oakville, Ontario, plant, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/18\/business\/ford-electric-vehicles-canada.html?campaign_id=9&amp;emc=edit_nn_20240719&amp;instance_id=129197&amp;nl=the-morning&amp;regi_id=95765965&amp;segment_id=172583&amp;te=1&amp;user_id=a07568e206ed3d0ec37e3cc3c732fef8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a>&nbsp;reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Ford is not alone. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/general-motors-pulls-funding-floundering-electric-vehicle-efforts-10-billion-bid-appease-investors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General Motors<\/a> said it will make about 200,000 to 250,000 battery-powered vehicles this year, 50,000 below earlier estimates.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;After the pandemic, there was a huge exuberance around EVs, and I think a lot of the manufacturers thought that growth was going to continue,&rdquo; Arun Kumar, a partner and managing director at the consulting firm AlixPartners, told the Times.<\/p>\n<p>  <script> \t\t\t\tif( ! getCookie( 'ff_subbed' ) ) if( typeof FFADS.replace_ict !='undefined' ) if( FFADS.replace_ict ) eval( FFADS.replace_ict ); \t\t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But the reality is that&rsquo;s not the case, and it&rsquo;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wth-rino-dan-crenshaw-praises-liz-cheney-for-voting-to-impeach-president-trump-over-complete-lies-gets-roasted-on-twitter\/\" title=\"WTH? RINO Dan Crenshaw Praises Liz Cheney for Voting to Impeach President Trump Over Complete Lies \u2014 Gets ROASTED on Twitter\">smart move<\/a> to make sure you&rsquo;re not losing market  in internal combustion,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>GM and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/go-woke-go-broke-ford-announces-mind-bogglingly-huge-losses-ev-sold-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ford<\/a> had been touting the fact that they would have the capacity to make a million EVs a year by the middle of this decade.<\/p>\n<p>However, slower-than-expected sales mean that capacity will not come about as planned, GM CEO Mary Barra said last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Times said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tesla-renting-abandoned-parking-lots-sign-trouble-ev-giant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tesla<\/a> has scrapped expectations of sales growing 50 percent a year as global sales are down 6.6 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Ford CEO Jim Farley said despite two plants making the Super Duty trucks, &ldquo;We can&rsquo;t meet the demand.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>And so the company will invest $3 billion to make the gas-powered vehicles in Ontario, with the first trucks rolling off the line in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Ford lost nearly $4.7 billion on its EV operations in 2023 and projects losing $5.5 billion this year, leading to a February company statement that the next generation of EVs will arrive &nbsp;&ldquo;only when they can be profitable,&rdquo; according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/autos-transportation\/ford-pivots-ev-plans-heavy-duty-trucks-canada-facility-2024-07-18\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even in California, EVs are not taking over the highways.<\/p>\n<p>Electric vehicles have about 21.9 percent of the market as of the first six months of this year, down a notch after hitting 22 percent last year, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/environment\/story\/2024-07-18\/california-ev-sales-decline-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>&nbsp;reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">When does a sales-growth downturn move from a temporary blip to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obamas-homeland-security-chief-on-bidens-border-crisis-we-have-to-get-control-of-our-borders\/\" title=\"Obama\u2019s Homeland Security Chief On Biden\u2019s Border Crisis: \u2018We Have To Get Control Of Our Borders\u2019\">longer-term trend<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe right now.<\/p>\n<p>After years of rapid growth, electric vehicles sales in California went flat in the middle of last year and the trend continues.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sSqjrdkrIE\">https:\/\/t.co\/sSqjrdkrIE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Los Angeles Times (@latimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/latimes\/status\/1814043237834952863?\">July 18, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The state&rsquo;s climate plan is based on EVs amounting to 35 percent of the market, which will require a 20 percent annual growth rate.<\/p>\n<p>However, through the second quarter of this year, EV registration dropped 1.2 percent, according to the Times.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\">  <\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> <label>* Name<\/label> <br \/> <input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> <\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> <label>* <\/label> <br \/> <input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> <\/div>\n<p> <label>* Message<\/label> <br \/> <textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> <input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\">  <\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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This decision has led to a delay in the production of electric versions of the Ford Explorer and Lincoln Aviator. Other automakers, such as General Motors, have also adjusted their production targets for battery-powered vehicles due to slower-than-expected sales. Despite initial projections of being able to produce a million EVs annually by the mid-2020s, GM and Ford are facing challenges in meeting these targets. Tesla has also revised its sales expectations downward. Ford CEO Jim Farley acknowledged the high demand for Super Duty trucks and announced a $3 billion investment to produce gas-powered vehicles in Ontario. The company incurred significant losses in its EV operations in recent years and is now focusing on profitability before launching the next generation of EVs. In California, the market share of electric vehicles has slightly decreased, raising questions about the long-term growth prospects of EV sales. The state&#8217;s climate plan aims for EVs to account for 35% of the market, but current trends suggest a slower growth rate than anticipated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2305261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Ford-Super-Duty.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[35800,8411,35801],"class_list":["post-2305260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-electric-vehicle","tag-ford","tag-gasoline-powered"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Ford-Super-Duty.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2305260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2305261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2305260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2305260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}