The automotive industry is undergoing its biggest transformation in a generation.
Democrats aren’t likely to get the changes that they were hoping for after Tuesday’s rout at the polls.
And Ford turned on Michigan Democrats with one decision Joe Biden and Kamala Harris never saw coming.
Ford and Joe Biden fail at their electric vehicle agenda
President Joe Biden has been hell-bent on trying to force drivers behind the wheel of an electric vehicle to fight climate change.
Ford has been one of the willing partners in trying to make the automotive industry electric.
The Detroit automaker thought it had found the solution to get Americans to make the switch.
Most electric vehicles had been small econoboxes that were designed for the streets of Europe.
The best-selling vehicles in the country are almost exclusively trucks and SUVs now.
Ford thought it had found the cheat code for getting Americans to buy electric vehicles.
The automaker tried to electrify some of its most popular vehicles to try and meet car buyers where they were.
The Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck was the company’s signature model to lure drivers who hadn’t previously considered going electric.
Biden traveled to the Ford Dearborn Development Center in Dearborn, Michigan, to test drive an F-150 Lightning before the model went on sale to the public that year.
He bragged about how fast the truck was after he took it for a test spin at the facility.
And Biden used the stop to tout his electric vehicle agenda.
“Look, the future of the auto industry is electric. There’s no turning back,” Biden said.
“The real question is whether we’ll lead or we’ll fall behind in the race of the future, or whether we’ll build these vehicles and the batteries that go in them here in the United States or rely on other countries,” Biden added.
Now, the clock is ticking on Biden’s time in the White House, and the electric vehicle industry is in shambles.
Ford shuts down production on electric vehicle touted by Joe Biden
Sales of the F-150 Lightning never took off because almost no buyers wanted a truck that couldn’t perform as well as its gasoline-powered counterpart.
Ford announced that it was halting production of the truck at its Dearborn plant until next year.
“We continue to adjust production for an optimal mix of sales growth and profitability,” Ford said in a statement.
Ford has been hemorrhaging money on its electric division and is being forced to readjust its goals.
The automaker lost more than $130,000 on every electric vehicle it sold in the first quarter of 2024.
American Energy Institute CEO Jason Isaac told the Washington Free Beacon that American workers paid the price for Biden’s failed electric vehicle agenda.
“Ford’s halt in F-150 Lightning production highlights the disastrous impact of federal EV mandates driven by the Biden-Harris administration,” Isaac said. “These mandates are destabilizing the global auto industry while paving the way for cheap Chinese imports to dominate.”
“American automakers and workers are paying the price for policies that ignore real consumer demand,” Isaac added.
Electric vehicles will be another of the long line of failures during Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ administration.
