Ford CEO Jim Farley posts an insightful ode to electric vehicles as a ‘lifelong petrol head’
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Ford CEO Jim Farley posts an insightful ode to electric vehicles as a ‘lifelong petrol head’
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“As a lifelong petrol head, I was surprised as anyone when I fell in love with electric vehicles.
It wasn’t government policies or political beliefs that sparked this late-career romance with electric vehicles. It’s because I drive one – my Ford F-150 Lightning Platinum. It is astonishingly quiet and smooth. The effortless acceleration leaves you with a silly grin once you get the feeling back in your face. Every morning, mine is topped up with 300 miles of range. No gas stations, ever…
… It’s that simple. For me, and for millions of Americans, electric vehicles are removing daily hassles and reminding us why we love to drive. If you want to have a blast behind the wheel, take a Mustang Mach-E Rally out on a dirt road.”
Is Geek66 PRO EV – Absolutely
Is Farley making valid points – Absolutely
Is this a CEO selling his company and doing his job – Absolutely….
This is marketing –
This message needs to get out to more people. Saving the earth is great if you are into that like I am but even if you aren’t many EV’s are just overall better than their ICE equivalents.
Fun fact: Jim Farley is Chris Farley’s brother.
The Lightning was such a joy to test drive. Effortless power, smooth, quiet, and cushy suspension eats up highway miles. Unfortunately my once a year mulch run doesn’t warrant the need of an $80k truck.
My lightning also puts a grin on my face every time I drive it. Blows me away how quiet and effortless it moves.
I look forward to replacing my sienna hybrid one day with a full electric van, hopefully one day
This is a little off. Americans do not use the term “petrol head” at all. That’s exclusively a British English thing.
Even though my commute consists of about 12 mile round trip I’d buy a Lighting in a second if I could afford one.
TBF I really can’t afford the ICE truck that I want either, shit is stupid expensive.
I drove a Volt years ago for a couple of hours. Whisper quiet, all the amenities like AC and excellent stereo. I knew it was the future, you just have to try one.
Future generations will scratch their heads at our blatant insane stupidity for hanging on to fossil fuels.
I think there is a place for both. I love EVs for their simplicity and ease of use. But I also love some ICE vehicles like my Jeep or a Miata because they are fun.
It’s not a contradiction to like both.
Now please make a real electric mustang gt
I’m hopefully buying my EV in the next few weeks! I can’t wait!
I’m also a lifelong car guy, have worked in the automotive industry for almost two decades, and have owned all sorts of fun and interesting cars. I share his sentiments 100%.
We purchased our first EV in January, and I’ll never go back to ICE for an every day vehicle. It’s more comfortable, quieter, faster, more efficient, costs less to run, only gets cleaner as the grid gets cleaner, and in our case we charge it off the sun with solar/battery backup at the house.
It’s all about having the right tool for the job, and for us, an EV is far superior to ICE.
I’m still a huge car fan and own an ICE weekend fun car…people need to realize you can be both an EV and traditional car enthusiast. We don’t have to be tribal.
My lightning is the best vehicle I’ve ever owned.
I’ve had Tesla model 3, ford raptors, z06 corvettes, lots of mustangs.
Lightning is amazing
> In our experience, Mustang Mach-E owners typically save 64% on fuel costs and 27% on scheduled maintenance per year compared to gas vehicles.
I am surprised that the savings on maintenance are so low. What needs to be done for maintenance beyond rotating the tires occasionally?
Why is this just on LinkedIn and not in the opinion pages of the Detroit news, NYT or Wallstreet journal. If you’re going to say it Jim, say it where someone can actually hear you!
A lot of “petrol heads” might want to consider that they are Car Guys? Like are they actually “petrol heads”. Do they do a bunch of stuff with petrol aside from driving cars?
Maybe, just maybe, they are car guys and they can have fun with EVs… you know vehicles that are faster and more fun to drive?
Or are they really truly “petrol heads” where they are obsessed with the actual fuel and read magazines like “Petrol refining monthly” or whatever?
Love Jim Farley, love cars and I especially love EV’s!
I work at a major OEM supplier and our company has put all their poker chips on the EV bet. I am frustrated at their all-in approach rather than tapering ICE technology as EV comes along. Unfortunately this EV evangelism has cost 2/3 of my colleagues their jobs as we only design ICE products.
The facts are:
1. EVs will eventually dominate the market
2. We don’t know when 1.) will happen
3. You can’t make people buy an EV (as we have seen this year)
4. If EVs are better and cost competitive- people will buy them without any arm twisting or incentives
I’ve had 3 EV’s now, over 7 years… my previous ICE cars weren’t ‘track machines’ with a sweet exhaust note and a tuned gear map. They were all fairly cheap consumer boxes which were a few years old. They were all slow off the line, lumbering round corners and expensive to maintain. These are 99% of all cars! Every EV ever made is a significant improvement over those shitboxes.
I know this as my first two cars were Nissan Leafs! Those Leaf’s leap off the line at traffic lights, they are really smooth, comfortable and easy to drive. And, even though they were both bought used, i didn’t have a single problem or unexpected expense from either of them over 5 years… the range was never an issue either, because like 95% of people, I don’t commute to the moon, 50-70 miles a day every day, easy.
I want help the environment, don’t get me wrong, but it had pretty much nothing to do with me getting an ev. It was the power, the smoothness, the enticement of less maintenance parts that got me.
Reading his post I suddenly go “why isn’t there a Transit Raptor?”