'Customers can have any car they want as long as it's electric'

'Ford's EV Stockholm syndrome'

The Wall Street Journal editorial board

Ford's "expensive bet on electric vehicles isn't paying off," says the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal. The company is working to comply with government EV mandates, and this means that Ford is "supporting the administration's regulation because it wants to socialize EV losses across the industry." The White House is "using subsidies and mandates to take companies captive to its climate agenda." Ford is the "latest business to come down with Stockholm syndrome, but it won’t be the last."

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Nicole Hemmer at CNN

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Ruth Marcus at The Washington Post

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