You couldn’t pay me to use a modern Ford
Fathom means “to penetrate and come
Okay, maybe with jokes like that!
Every model will be equipped with a large, high-resolution touchscreen, wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, BlueCruise, bidirectional charging capabilities, and a digital key.
The Fathom will be the first vehicle to have Apple Maps built in, providing turn-by-turn directions using real-time data, EV routing, battery preconditioning, and more, all directly through the navigation display.
Ford will use the road-level data from Apple Maps to advance its BlueCruise hands-free highway driving tech for “a more seamless on-ramp to off-ramp experience.”
Oh no. Nevermind. Either they’re cutting corners on what actually matters or their selling your data. Probably both.
Probably?
For all the “make it a car” folks out there - Ford F-series is the best selling vehicle in the US and Canada. That’s just how fucked we are.
This is an advert.
Too expensive, too big, too Ford.
Affordable in its space, that’s great.
28.3K really is cheap in this context but I’m skeptical that this would be anywhere close to the price when it comes out. Seen too many “40K” that turn out to be 60K in reality. I mean in any context, the avg sale price of new vehicles is over $50K.
They are likely using LFP batteries instead of ones that take some of the more expensive minerals like cobalt. That is a huge part of the cost of EVs, and LFPs should help keep the price down
They’re using LFP in the Mach-e as well and they’re losing money on every sale at signuficantly higher price tag. So I think it’s gotta be something else.
From what I understand that has more to do with the amount of money they are putting into R&D, not cost of materials for each vehicle. Media has been spinning it, but it is not a 1:1 thing
frunk trunk (frunk).
Can you fathom how much junk you can fix inside the fathoms frunk and trunk?
I really wish they could make some kind of mini truck design where the bed and cabin are huge but there is no engine in front. Since its an ev the bed can be lined with batteries and the motor is very compact. I love a mini truck and its so practical and fun to drive. Pickups are just too big.
Check out the Telo https://www.telotrucks.com/
Wow, that’s the one of the ugliest pickup trucks I’ve ever seen, second only to the cyber truck.
There was an article linked at the bottom of this one for the truck I really want - the Telo MT1. I’m willing to pay more to have a compact and capable vehicle. And there’s an option for a full solar panel roof.
The landscape of EVs within the Evil Empire is pretty bad
“Affordable”
Ok now make it a car and you’ll have my attrntion
They were one of the first non-tesla manufacturers to have a passable EV though? It’s called the Mach E. Now they’re going after the market that actually has decent sales in the US, with more cheap crap EVs to follow the pickup truck.
ok?
I wonder if it’ll have the same death wobble that their other trucks had lol.
Side note I’m biased as hell because all these american truck brands keep making their trucks bigger when they dont need to be. It makes the road a more dangerous place than it already is
How is this more expensive than the Slate?
