New p/u set to MSRP at $28K. Ford’s new electric pickup will cost $28,350. It’s an extremely expensive bet on a very cheap truck | CNN Business
Yep -- EVs will go nowhere, without highly-expensive changes to infrastructure, period. And no one wants to be that guy -- who takes the career hit for the huge amt of local / state gov't spending, with no guarantee of any return on investment. Any buyer with a functioning brain will ask first, 'where can I charge this, if on a roadtrip'? And if the answer, as has been the last decade, is still 'way too few places to not be a PITA', they'll flock as with the Mav to hybrids, if they care at all about fuel economy (despite all the domestics and many imports sucking more and more reliability / durability content out of the hard parts, to support their bloated-multinational ambitions). There's no way I'd finance an EV here for even $40K, fifteen grand less than median EV MSRP -- no way in hell. And whilst this island was never great for EV prospects outside buses and large transit vehicles, just the state of what is there in 2026, should be a clue -- damaged and not repaired, or ground broken and curbs laid, but no componentry as someone cut the project loose and took the loss. And seems mainlanders outside the Coasts are getting the jist too re: hybrids -- at least where it's not frozen 9 mos out of the year.
