{"id":83120,"date":"2021-12-21T15:15:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T23:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=83120"},"modified":"2021-12-21T15:16:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T23:16:05","slug":"ford-draws-line-in-the-sand-with-ev-meme-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/ford-draws-line-in-the-sand-with-ev-meme-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford Draws Line in the Sand with EV Meme Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ford made it very clear today where they stand going forward with the EV movement with their social media post this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Ford posted this meme early this morning:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"83121\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/ford-draws-line-in-the-sand-with-ev-meme-post\/image_from_ios__10_-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image_from_ios__10_-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1242,1503\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image_from_ios__10_ (1)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image_from_ios__10_-1-248x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image_from_ios__10_-1-846x1024.jpg\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-83121\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image_from_ios__10_-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image_from_ios__10_-1.jpg 1242w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image_from_ios__10_-1-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image_from_ios__10_-1-846x1024.jpg 846w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image_from_ios__10_-1-768x929.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The post was meant to be tongue in cheek but many commenters were critical of Ford&#8217;s stance more so of their new price points with the new EVs instead of the EVs themselves. Facebook user Doug Klipp wrote:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"83123\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/ford-draws-line-in-the-sand-with-ev-meme-post\/fqwfqwfqwf\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/fqwfqwfqwf.png\" data-orig-size=\"906,354\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"fqwfqwfqwf\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/fqwfqwfqwf-300x117.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/fqwfqwfqwf.png\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-83123\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/fqwfqwfqwf.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/fqwfqwfqwf.png 906w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/fqwfqwfqwf-300x117.png 300w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/fqwfqwfqwf-768x300.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With many manufactures moving towards EVs becoming the new norm, it feels as if its going to be a slow transition for most gasoline lovers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Ford made it very clear today where they stand going forward with the EV movement with their social media post this morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":67393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3470],"tags":[5846,43,8799,5271,41],"class_list":["post-83120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ev","tag-ford","tag-ford-ev","tag-meme","tag-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Mustang-Mach.e-sideview-min-e1640128517132.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-lCE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83125,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83120\/revisions\/83125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}