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"Musk Is Kicking Their Butts" - Ford’s EV Gamble BACKFIRES In $19B WAKE-UP CALL

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🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Ford’s $19.5B EV write-down sparks a massive industry reset. Pat, Tom, Pomp, and the team break down failed mandates, Tesla’s dominance, hybrid comeback, and why legacy automakers keep losing. A must-watch for anyone following the EV war.

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0:00.0

Ford writes down $19.5 billion as it pivots electric lightning, lighting line of vehicles.

0:11.7

And this is page 11 if you want to go to.

0:13.5

This is a fortune story.

0:17.2

So let's go through it.

0:18.7

So Ford searches for finding profitability for its electric vehicle

0:22.9

continues. So the Dearborn Michigan-based automaker will make a series of changes to its line of

0:27.0

vehicles and production facility to focus on producing affordable vehicles that better aligned with

0:32.7

customer desires it's announced on Monday. The company will also scrap production of certain larger EVs, ready, including the F-150

0:40.9

Lightning, which it will retool as an electric vehicle with a gas power generator, as well

0:47.0

as redouble development of smaller, lower cost cars, including a mid-sized pickup truck in

0:52.8

27. I can go give a lot of other stats here, but I'm just going to go to Tom. Tom. including a mid-sized pickup truck in 2027.

0:54.5

I can go give a lot of other stats here, but I'm just going to go to Tom.

0:58.0

Tom, $19.5 billion.

1:00.2

What's going on with Ford?

1:01.2

Well, I happen to think that a set of governors, blue governors, led by Gavin Newsom,

1:08.3

owe the shareholders probably half of that. Because you had, you know,

1:13.8

California said, oh, by 2030, what was it? By 2030, you have to be 30 percent EVs. They had these

1:19.8

steps. And they basically stepped on, you know, the demand side of the automakers and said,

1:25.8

you will do this. Meanwhile, California didn't have the

1:29.1

electric infrastructure to do that, and they don't even have the electric infrastructure to power

1:32.5

the data centers that are going to be in California, which is not as many as going to be elsewhere,

1:37.3

which is another story. But you had all the automakers got behind it. The point is, Ford got

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