Some Tesla engineers secretly started designing a Cybertruck alternative because they ‘hated’ it::“They were like, ‘You can’t be serious.’ They didn’t want to have anything to do with it,” Franz von Holzhausen said, according to Walter Isaacson.

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    Good luck getting a base model F150 at a decent price. I tried earlier this year and only 3 dealers East of the Mississippi had the base model and they all wanted $30,000 OVER MSRP. Ford can lick my butt for not making enough base models and trying to push their XLT and platinums starting at $75k. I need a truck to work in not have it open and close the lift gate for me.

    At this point I’ll take a shit looking truck at a decent price over whatever the duck Ford and their dealers thought was a good idea with producing so little of the base model, not to mention base model with extended range batteries were ONLY available to fleet purchasers.

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      You are actually allowed to buy directly from the manufacturer. Contact the Ford plant. They’ll sell it to you at MSRP

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      2 years ago

      It’s almost like lithium supply chains are absolutely fucked, and EVs would get zero traction without government subsidies.

      Feels good though. Saving the world. (/S)

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        We actually just discovered the largest deposit of lithium on earth in Nevada, so those should get unfucked in the next couple years.

        Kansas has declared all their children available for the mines.