All lincolns to be electric by 2022

First Volvo, then Jaguar, now Lincoln
autonews.com/article/20170907/OEM05/170909821/lincoln-to-electrify-all-models-by-2022-report-says

Doesn't that mean there will be an electric version of all models, not that none will be ICE anymore? That's the case with Volvo.

Is Mazda the only good brand left?

Nobody will buy an electric car if someone doesn't build charging stations.
Nobody will build charging stations if people don't buy an electric car.
Repeat.

>mazda
>good

>Nobody will buy a gas car if someone doesn't build gas stations.
>Nobody will build gas stations if people don't buy a gas car.

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I can't wait for 100 different types of charging station because the companies want the connectors to be proprietary

Mazda is building electric cars with Toyota.
Also rotary engines range extender for EVs.

Yes.
None of these user will read the article (where that's explicitly stated) tho.

>lincoln/ferd copying others
No news here

They havent made a nice car and unique car since the mark viii and once the town car went out of production its was just fords with more equipment and turbo v6.

>be GM
>decide to make different connectors for chebbies, buick, GMC, etc.
>go bankrupt
>no obongo this time to bail them out

nuclear power production better go through the roof because of this

What's next? Fucking Cadillac?

I had a feeling Ford would pull some shit like this, not on Lincoln but on almost all their Fords but their trucks.

This is what happens when the money making brand gets to dictate all the smaller brands underneath them. First they gouge their R&D so they can't outsell the large brand. Then they throw a brand under the bus in some wild helpless experiment.

>Solar panels and home battery packs will render baseload generation obsolete! Nuclear is a pointless, dying industry!
>*charges batteries in 30 minutes with what might as well be a dead short circuit at 240 volts*
lmaoing @ all the Muskists

I live in a place without them and see several teslas.

>instead of burning petroleum in your vehicle, we'll burn coal at the designated coal burning stations and sell the product to you so you can store it in your giant lithium batteries.

is Veeky Forums genuinely surprised by this?

electric cars are the way forward.

where I live we have quite a lot of electric cars driving around and I think the only charging station is in the supermarket. Lots of houses have electric cars on charge parked outside them in the evenings.

>luxury brands
>cars with virtually infinite zero rpm torque
>completely silent
>superior interior space because no engine and no petrol tank

is this not the ultimate upgrade?

>>completely silent

ideal for geezers

>turbo v6
Which happens to be really nice in the 2017 MKZ.

This is a good thing. Enthusiasts can have fun in older cars, luxury and commuter type buyers can have electric models. More fuel for us, fewer pigfat rich people cars shitting up the air.

Yes,


They actually are still all in on Gas cars and doing everything to extende their life. The sky activ X and their secret new engine both look promising

One big oil company will sell its soul and put ev charging at all its stations to make more money, it will be the beginning of the end

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Surely we can do better

>First Volvo, then Jaguar, now Lincoln
Now waiting for North Korea to announce that all future state funerals will only use all electric cars.

He actually looks sad

;_;

I'm not convinced Lincoln will be around in 2022. New aluminum 2018 Navigator is nice but who outside of black car drivers is going to buy one?

north korea uses LINCOLNS in their official ceremonies ?
lolwat.png

>has engine
>what are batteries

>north korea uses LINCOLNS in their official ceremonies ?
Why not? That might even be an influence from China. For a long time before China developed its own copycat car industries, senior Chinese political officials would be driven around in Lincoln sedans. That old tradition probably contributed a lot to why Lincolns still sell better in China than in the USA.

Lincoln was going to move entirely (100% parts production and final assembly) to China but Trump gave them a pep talk and they didn't officially leave. However, parts production seems to be mostly in China with subassemblies coming back for final assembly in the USA. If {{2}} chinese subassemblies are shipped to usa company LincolnSubsidiary#256 LLC and put together there with ({item}} 5 bolts, {{item}} 20 welds, {{item}} one adhesive add on, that is now a usa product because out of 5 major item blocks, it is 40% chinese (2 items) and 60% usa (3 items). LincolnSubsidiary#256 now sells that part to LincolnFactory_USA to be used in final assembly. This is an oversimplified description of how to whitewash something that is essentially foreign-made and give it a made in usa out of primarily usa components.

Are you actually retarded?

>taking an entire paragraph to explain outsourcing