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Originally Posted by ksa8907
What if they start building and selling electric Lincolns to still meet CAFE reqs?
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Small cars don't make money. For roughly the same input of effort, larger vehicles make bunches more money. Electrifying and hybridizing a vehicle costs money. If you can barely make money on a vehicle to begin with you cannot absorb the costs of electrification and hybridization. Electrify and hybridize larger, less fuel efficient vehicles. They need the help the most. They also have the profit ceilings to absorb the associated costs and still make a handsome profit.
The Toyota Prius was done as advertising. It lost gobs of money for its first years of production. Toyota should have hybridized it's pickup line.
Ford has planned to move forward with electrification and hybridization just like other manufacturers. The ability to extend the internal combustion engine 's efficiency moves forward as well as aerodynamics and weight savings. Plop down electrified crossovers with MPGe ratings well above current fuel economies and you can make EPA mandates.