Joining us now is Eric Peters, an excellent site, Eric Peters Auto.com or EPautos.com.

All kinds of information about liberty and mobility, as the car companies like to call it now,

but actually does car reviews, real car reviews,

and practical car reviews. It's not, oh, look at this hypercar that is going to cost you

$4 million or something, and maybe they'll make it, maybe they want, no, it's real stuff. And he's got

great news today because it looks like things have broken our way on several different fronts,

doesn't it, Eric? Tell us about it. It does. Yeah, the wheels seem to be coming off of the

EV bandwagon. Multiple, multiple things to talk about. One is... Maybe we can get some regenerative,

maybe we can get some regenerative braking on this as well. Maybe we get some money back in our pockets, too.

But yeah, you know, the Ford is having difficulty moving the lightning, which is the

electric version of the F-1 50 pickup.

Sales are down almost 50%.

They've had to idle the line that builds them.

Dealers are not ordering more of them because they can't sell the ones they've got.

GM has had to scale back its expectations. That's the verbiage that they used. But the really big news,

and this is huge, is that it has leaked, the Dodge, which had said that it was going to end the current charger and Challenger as we knew them

with gas powered engines and V8

engines and all the good stuff that makes them desirable, and turn them into battery-powered

devices like all the other battery-powered devices.

It's apparently seen that the people who buy vehicles like that don't want battery-powered

devices.

It's like trying to sell a blue-collar guy, Bud Light, with Dylan

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