[00:00] I'll buy the trick. Here's what it's got to be. Three things. Number one. We know enough to know that it's not going to be probably most of this. I don't know how much less it's going to be, but. Number one. Here it comes. 17 grand. That'll be 30. Number two, 450 horsepower on-wheel drive.
[00:13] And number three, manual transmission. They may have a version that gets to that power. I have no idea. I doubt the 30k version will. Ford hopes to slash expects to sell 100,000 Fathoms in the first year.
[00:25] The only automaker that has sold in a single model line over 100,000 units And in a year is Tesla, which has done that with the Model 3 and the Model Y each, respectively. Ford initially predicted that they would sell 150,000 units annually of the F-150 Lightning.
[00:40] They sold 105,000 units total of the F-150 Lightning through five calendar years. Five calendar years. Man. The other reason that's notable, the U.S. government and Sean Duffy, who's in charge of the Department of Transportation,
[00:52] has sent Jim Farley a letter saying, hey, we're really upset that you are partnering with a Chinese automaker in Europe. The batteries for the Fathom will be built at a Ford plant in the U.S. in Michigan, but they're licensing technology from a Chinese battery maker.
[01:06] And Sean Duffy is very concerned about that. By the way, I do want to note something from Jim Farley's response, which was that a couple of days before receiving this letter, the U.S. government had been very proud and had been cheerleading the fact that these batteries would be built in the U.S.
[01:20] So some confusing. That's the Trump administration.