comes following lordstown's dismal production outlook and widening losses it disclosed in its quarterly report on monday, for its part, gm is moving higher by 4%. look at rivian, the fellow electric vehicle van maker down 12%. tanking after the company announced it will raise prices for two of its, yeah, there's inflation for you, barely two minutes old and they are raising their prices of two of their electric truck models by up to 20% to help offset higher costs, rivian says the price hikes will also apply to pre-orders investors are obviously not happy. but look at ford. big move here, it is up on the news that it has actually decided to split into two separate businesses. now this is not a spin-off. it's a split into two separate businesses. one for its electric vehicles and the other for its conventional gas-powered engine cars and trucks. ceo jim farley telling fox business today the move will help ford better complete with rivals in the ev space. >> compete against tesla, if people work from 9:00-10:00 on electric cars, you need the focus and expertise to be world class. liz: for

shares got trashed, lordstown lost gm as an investor. in the us, $5 a gallon gasoline. when you can't get investors excited about easy startups, i think you have a problem. forward plans to separate to maximize profits. i said before going into a rising interest rate environment i would not bet on any not named tesla and i wouldn't bet on tesla. jack: carleton, what do you have? carleton: i think this is the key to the market getting too greedy, it is tough from the prior year's quarter, and one of the few beneficiaries. jack: you buy eight. >> a medical devicemaker, 52-week high unless it is the energy, or mining, in february, and the omicron wave, with medical devices. a spinoff of diabetes care, could be another catalyst. jack: thanks for insights. check out this week's addition at barrons.com featuring a list of the most influential women in finis. we will see you next week on "barron's roundtable". >> from the fox studios in new york city wall street. the eight happy weekends all welcome to the program analyzes the week it was an op

guidance it's not the only ev startup struggling this year it's down about 64% since january 1st while lordstownaren't a catalyst for outperform, what is let's get more on that >>> come with me i'm going to take you to november 15th of last year just five days after the rivian ipo. this is what we saw. all the ev stocks, we're talking about rivian, fiscal, lucid. they were all at record highs. what's happened since then not highs. what happened since? not a lot. here's why there's challenges here. lower production guides. brought them down for rivian and lucid. supply chain woes. coming at the same time as the expected growth of evs made people say, yeah, i think the ev sales will grow. who will get most of the sales through 2025 as the industry moves up to 2 million in annual sales you have tesla, gm and ford execed to get the majority of the sales. not fisker, lucid and rivian and ramping up production, with new plants for gm and ford and for tesla the texas giga factory is coming online. while there's anticipation to see the greater growth over the next decade or two decades, the startups are

so you see going first into lordstown in plant one, this is plant two, and plant three will be up ints in a very good vicinity around our assembly plant, and we can do our own chemistry very quickly at our tech center where we make ourselves, we validate them, we do back and forth very, very quickly so we're very agile. and we've got great partnerships like tfs which is moving -- fts which is moving toward ground breaking chemistry. i think it gives us a big advantage, and it's really quite good. neil: do you ever worry though -- the i know in the environment we're in, you know, gas prices are soaring, if they come off this, you know, post-ukraine war high, there are other factors involved beyond the ukraine war, i understand that, that the appetite for electric vehicles might wane a little bit, that whatever wind is at your back now might if sort of calm down and you're caught, you know, committing to an all-ev lineup when the demand might not match it? >> yeah, you know, i think we do enough research and look at the industry here to know that, you know, demand has spiked for evs ev