Ford stops taking orders on the lightening

Lantley wrote:

JRscooby wrote:

Lantley wrote:


An ICE mechanic may not be as proficeient with a volt meter and osciliscope as a EV mechanic.

This sounds strange to me. The trade school that I paid my way thru got me into GM training center. Both of those schools trained me on the use of oscilloscope. Of course that was in 1969, so I don't know what they teach now...

I guarantee you the average mechanic is not proficient with an oscilliscope. My real point is the entire operation will need to be retrained in a hurry on systems they are not familiar with.
It will be a significant challenge.
Curently the legacy makers are having enough issues building ICE cars.
Introducing EV's at this time is not ideal.

When I got out of Army I intended to open a repair shop, so bought equipment from gas station/repair shop. (Soon learned I could not deal with people. The tow trucks paid for the rest.)
But with the discontinuation of battery/point ignition most only change parts. Example, working 427 GMC, grossing up to 110,000 a bad plug wire would show up in middle of trip. On shoulder, change cap and wires. Get home, swap back on, hook up 'scope, and replace weak wire. Can you even buy 1 wire at a time?

But my point of mentioning my old training is to point out that training is not a big issue. Likely anybody that retires out of shop will be replaced by a younger person that has been trained on the EV.

Turtle n Peeps wrote:
My electric car was great.......until the main battery failed......which cost 10 grand to replace......then it was great again....until the main battery failed.....again......which still cost 10 grand to replace......I don't know if it's great again because there is not a battery in the world that anybody has in stock......So my wife will have to wait 6 months to find out if her car is great again.

Until then.....I will just have to guess if my battery powered car will be great again.

Over what time/mileage pierid are you talking?