比尔·福特表示电动汽车正在被严重政治化

比尔·福特表示，蓝州和红州之间在电动汽车问题上正在出现政治分歧

布拉德·安德森

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福特最近确认将放慢全电动F-150 Lightning 的生产速度，据执行主席比尔·福特 (Bill Ford) 称，部分原因是电动汽车在美国已变得政治化。

当F-150 Lightning的订单于 2022 年初开始时，所有迹象都是积极的。事实上，福特只用了不到六个月的时间就获得了 20 万份电动汽车的预订，而就在今年 6 月，福特还表示，该数量将增加两倍福特计划在 2023 年底前生产该卡车。然而，本周早些时候，福特证实实际上将放慢生产速度，并将原因归咎于供应链中断和质量检查。

比尔·福特最近在接受《纽约时报》采访时谈到该公司与美国汽车工人联合会正在进行的合同谈判时指出，在电动汽车方面，蓝州和红州之间正在形成一条界线。

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“今年电动汽车销量仍增长 50%，因此销量增长非常快，但我们也看到了电动汽车的政治化，”他说。“蓝色州表示电动汽车很棒，出于气候原因，我们需要尽快采用它们。一些红色州说，这就像疫苗一样，是政府强行塞给我们的，我们不想要它。我从未想过有一天我们的产品会被如此严重政治化，但事实确实如此。”

彭博社指出，总统乔·拜登和前总统唐纳德·特朗普的言论截然不同。拜登大力推广电动汽车，目标是到 2030 年电动汽车占新车销量的 50%，而特朗普最近猛烈抨击电动汽车，并声称未来电动汽车将全部在中国制造。

从长远来看，比尔·福特似乎并不太担心，他指出，随着汽车制造商推出第二代电动汽车，电动汽车的价格将继续下降。

“我们的第一代电动汽车 Lightning 和 Mustang Mach-E 都采用了大量的内燃工程，”他说。“下一代将很快开始出现，是用一张白纸开发的。当你这样做时，你就可以真正开始降低成本，然后你就可以开始相应地定价。”https://www.carscoops.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Ford-F-150-Lightning-1024x576.jpg

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Bill Ford Says Electric Vehicles Are Being Heavily Politicized

Bill Ford says there is an emerging political divide on electric vehicles between blue states and red states

by Brad Anderson

15 hours ago

Ford recently confirmed that it will slow production of the all-electric F-150 Lightning and according to executive chair Bill Ford, this is in part because of how politicized electric vehicles have become in the United States.

All the signs were positive when orders of the F-150 Lightning kicked off in early 2022. Indeed, it took less than six months for Ford to secure 200,000 reservations for the EV, and as recently as June this year, Ford said it would triple production of the truck by the end of 2023. However, earlier this week, Ford confirmed it is actually going to slow production, blaming supply chain disruptions and quality checks.

During a recent interview with The New York Times about the firm’s ongoing contract negotiations with the UAW, Bill Ford noted that a line is now forming between blue and red states when it comes to EVs.

Read: Ford Could Cut F-150 Lightning Production Due To Waning Demand

“EV sales are still up 50 percent this year, so sales are growing very fast but we’ve also seen a politicization of EVs,” he said. “Blue states say EVs are great and we need to adopt them as soon as possible for climate reasons. Some of the red states say this is just like the vaccine, and it’s being shoved down our throat by the government, and we don’t want it. I never thought I would see the day when our products were so heavily politicized, but they are.”

Bloomberg notes that the rhetoric from President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are very different. Whereas Biden is promoting EVs heavily with the aim of them accounting for 50% of new car sales by 2030, Trump recently slammed EVs and claimed that in the future, they will all be manufactured in China.

In the long run, Bill Ford doesn’t seem too concerned, noting that the prices of EVs will continue to fall as the car manufacturer introduces its second generation of electric vehicles.

“With our first-generation EVs, the Lightning and the Mustang Mach-E, they were done with a lot of internal combustion engineering in them,” he said. “The next generation, which will start coming quite quickly, was developed with a clean sheet of paper. When you do that you can really start taking cost out, and then you can start pricing them accordingly.”

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