The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Last week, Ford CEO Jim Farley asked a group of dealers for some open and honest feedback while promising to spend the next few weeks visiting showrooms. The point was to create a conversation between the automaker and dealerships that have grown annoyed with some of the changes Ford has been asking them to make.

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InsideEVs

JANUARY 29, 2024

Ford is reportedly paying its dealers to turn inventory Mach-Es into rental cars, presumably to get them off the lot.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 21, 2023

As per recent reports, a significant portion of Ford’s US dealership network is opting out of the automaker’s aggressive electric vehicle push. This means that about half of Ford dealers have opted to sell just combustion-powered and hybrid cars this coming 2024.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 22, 2023

Some Ford dealers have had second thoughts about the company's EV sales program and notified the company they are no longer interested in participating.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The Ford NACS announcement torpedoed its own dealers, reduced consumer confidence in EVs, and brought back memories of the Osborne 2.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Ford’s Model e EV certification program, which was announced last year, has attracted its own fair share of critics from the automaker’s dealers. Since the program was announced, hundreds of dealers have reportedly opted out of the Model E program despite initially opting in for the initiative.

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InsideEVs

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Around half of Ford dealers are sticking to selling gas-powered vehicles for now.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 26, 2024

If you want to try the all-electric Ford Mustang Mach-E before buying, you may be in luck. Ford dealers can now use the 2023 Ford Mustang Mach-E as part of its rental car programs. Ford Mustang Mach-E turned into a rental car Ford’s Mustang Mach-E had a record year in 2023.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Ford CEO Jim Farley threw the gauntlet at Tesla and its Full Self-Driving autonomous driving system. Farley is confident that Ford Pro is the future. “If Look at Ford Pro. Ford Pro is the legacy automaker’s business unit for commercial customers, including fleet operators and government agencies.

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Teslarati

MARCH 20, 2023

Ford dealers are beginning to push back and drop out of the Model e electric vehicle sales program. Ford saw mass success when it first launched the program, reporting that about two-thirds of U.S. Ford saw mass success when it first launched the program, reporting that about two-thirds of U.S.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

If Ford, or any legacy automaker for that matter, really wants to compete with Tesla, the dealers need to get out of the way. I read an article by Jalopnik which echoes what I’ve been saying for some time now. I’ve written about this extensively. For example, in Connecticut, a local paper, The Day, published […].

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2023

Ford Next is collaborating with Uber to deliver a new lease option for rideshare drivers going electric. Called Ford Drive, the pilot program offers flexible access to Ford Mustang Mach-E models and has launched in San Diego, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Ford held its fourth-quarter and full-year earnings call last week, where CEO Jim Farley addressed, among other things, the price markups dealers were placing on electric vehicles. . Johnson estimated that Ford was leaving about $1,850 of profit in dealers’ hand for about $3.6

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2013

Ford of Germany has signed a cooperation agreement with the German Ford dealers association FHD GmbH and DB Rent GmbH —the company behind Flinkster car sharing—for a new car sharing platform. Daimler, with its car2go effort, was an early OEM entrant into car-sharing. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

In Las Vegas for SEMA, Ford revealed the all-electric F-100 Eluminator concept—a zero-tailpipe-emissions demonstration truck powered by the all-new Ford Performance Parts Eluminator electric crate motor that customers can now buy online. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 30, 2024

Ford is instituting big discounts on the Mustang Mach-E for fleet customers, as well as a new program that allows dealers to use inventory as rental cars. A discount of $7,500 for state and local government customers, as well as certain customers, is available on all new 2024 Mach-E orders received through Apr.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Some Ford dealers and state dealer groups are pushing back against the company's plan for selling electric cars.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 19, 2023

Car dealers in Florida have rammed through a new law protecting them from manufacturer rules for electric cars, such as not adding surcharges to MSRP.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Ford doesn’t sell the Fiesta, Fusion, or Lincoln MKZ in the United States anymore, but the automaker recently recalled all three for an interesting problem. A total of 45,173 cars are involved in the recall, including 198 2015 Ford Fiestas, 41,061 2016 Fusions, and 3,914 2016 MKZs.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 11, 2023

30% of US car dealers tell the Sierra Club they refuse to sell electric cars. Pretty soon they won't have to because they will be out of business.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 14, 2023

Over the weekend, your author happened upon a rural Ford dealership seemingly frozen in time, still using signage from past decades and proudly eschewing whatever cold corporate design is currently being foisted upon dealer principals by The Suits in Dearborn. It was neat to see a store embrace its heritage. Texas, ya’ll.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2021

Ford electrified vehicle sales grew 184% in May, achieving a new electrified vehicles sales record of 10,364 vehicles. Andrew Frick, vice president, Ford Sales US and Canada, said that the company has received more than 70,000 reservations for the electric F-150 Lightning over the past two weeks. Ford-brand SUVs were up 51.8%

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Ford can’t make the compact Maverick fast enough to keep pace with demand and rumors have floated for years that Ram would bring its compact 700 pickup north from Mexico. Toyota, whose Tacoma has led its segment for a while now, is hearing from its dealers that it’s time to act with a competing smaller pickup. back in the 1970s.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Ford has told its dealers it's time to choose whether or not they want to be part of the coming EV revolution.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 10, 2024

The Ford Bronco Raptor was already expensive enough even without dealer markups, but the automaker has figured out a way to make it even pricier. Under the darkness of the eclipse on Monday, Ford announced the Bronco Raptor Black Appearance Package. Image: Ford] Become a& TTAC& insider. The turbocharged 3.0-liter

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Last month, I shared the story of how a potential Ford customer had a problem with a Ford dealership and later said they were told to buy a Tesla. Note, however, that we never connected with this person directly and they ended up deleting their initial Reddit post sharing the story. However, someone who read […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 30, 2023

Ford Pro has introduced new EV charging solutions while Stellantis is working to get its dealers ready for electric cars.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 2, 2024

One factor that is coming into clear focus is pricing, as Ford recently found out with the Mustang Mach-E. Ford knocked several thousand dollars off the Mach-E’s price earlier this year and has offered aggressive financing deals with interest rates as low as zero percent. & & [Image: Ford] Become a& TTAC insider.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 28, 2023

We continue our Ford Friday -- it wasn't planned that way, I swear -- with this good-looking 2016 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350. We'll disclose right up front that the seller mentions the car has a rebuilt title due to left-front-end damage from when it had 13,000 miles -- it now has 21,000. The car has the Track package.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The Ford F-150 Lightning is an acclaimed vehicle. As per a recent analysis of the second-hand vehicle market, however, it would appear that Ford is finding it hard to find buyers for its used F-150 Lightning inventory. For some time, it was quite difficult to acquire a Ford F-150 Lightning. days on dealer lots.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

According to the 2024 Dealer Outlook Survey, 83 percent of respondents said the government was pushing the transition toward EVs too quickly and mucking up the auto market. As for dealers, there’s some amount of disagreement as to what’s holding EVs back. EVs are definitely not a want of our guests today.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 16, 2024

Following a nine-week hold on F-150 Lightning allocations to dealers, Ford has announced it will be resuming shipments. Despite stalling deliveries of the all-electric F-150 pickup, your author has noticed there still seemed to be a more-than-healthy number of trucks sitting around on nearby Ford lots.

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Teslarati

APRIL 5, 2024

Ford postponed the launch of at least two electric vehicles (EVs) to focus on hybrid production. This isn’t the first time Ford has postponed EV plans. In October 2023, the company postponed a ~$12 billion EV investment after noting that customers were no longer willing to pay a premium for electric cars.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Ford Pro rolled out a subscription service for its commercial vehicles. The legacy automaker’s new subscription service is the Ford Pro E-Telematics for commercial electric vehicles. Ford offers Telematics for commercial vehicles and E-Telematics for commercial EVs.

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Electrek

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Apple Maps EV routing, a feature that first debuted at WWDC in 2020, will soon expand to its third car.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Ford F-150 Lightning (Source: Ford) A strong majority of car dealers complain the US government’s strategy is bringing them too fast into the electric vehicle future. The concerns about dealers have proved warranted. Electrek’s Take There’s no demand for EVs, but the best selling car in the world is electric.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Ford CEO Jim Farley will meet with dealers next week in Las Vegas to describe changes to the sales process for its electric cars.

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