Is an EV market slowdown a trend or a blip?

Motley Full Money, I'm Deidro Willard here with Motley Fool analyst Gasser El Shimayasser. How's your Thursday going?

It's going well so far, thank you.

Ricky and Jim talked Tesla deliveries earlier this week, but now we've got numbers from

yeah just about everybody else or at least a lot of the big ones so we have this

complicated picture of what's happening in terms of auto sales, where the companies are going.

It is really interesting and I want to dive into it. I want to start with Ford for a little bit.

I mean sales were up but they had this rise, 77% rise in the sale of the Ford Maverick

hybrid. Overall, EV sales pretty strong, but there's also discounting happening and there's something else

happening that you brought up which is a migration perhaps away from some of the big

heavy trucks that have sort of really been driving the market I'm wondering what's happening there I mean because as as the

country the US we love us some trucks. That's absolutely true I mean just a few

years ago I remember you know when when we talked about

Ford we always talked about sort of its leadership position in the pickup truck

segment especially with the F-150 being the best-selling pickup truck in America.

Now we are talking about Ford Maverick Hybrid, you know, when discussing Ford, and that's quite a shift.

But you know, just to kind of put a bow on this,

like, I don't know if you've been on the market

for a car lately, either new or used,

but cars are becoming increasingly unaffordable. Oh yeah. They can

set you back a fifth more than they did about five years ago and that that trend

has not you know shown any signs of reversing I mean the

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