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Are incentives even necessary anymore?

Regardless, this just shows how well Ford understands the truck market. This will sell like hot cakes, and they will have trouble keeping up with demand.

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EVs are currently 5% of annual sales. They need to be 60% by 2030, and 100% by 2035. Yea, incentives are still necessary, but higher taxes on combustion vehicles as well.

If they're almost at cost parity now it seems like a sure bet that you'd have to have a very abnormal use case to consider a gas vehicle 5 years from now.

People buying brand new $40-60K vehicles are not representative of the general driving population.

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