Ford scraps fully-electric F-150 Lightning
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Ford announced today it has cancelled the all-electric F-150 Lightning in favor of an extended-range EV. This shift, along with a new battery segment, is a major pivot.
Ford has an answer to the F-150 Lightning's woes: turn it into a 700-mile extended-range electric vehicle (EREV) for the next generation.
Ford confirms the fully electric F-150 Lightning ends production this year, but the Lightning name isn’t going anywhere.
Four years after Ford bravely electrified its best-selling vehicle, the F-150 Lightning pickup, it seemed ready to drop the model owing to slowing demand. Now, it turns out the company's got other plans.
Ford confirms it has ended production of the F-150 Lightning, and will relaunch it as an "extended range electric vehicle" (EREV). It's the end of an era for the iconic pickup truck, which debuted in 2022.
Ford’s announcements today can’t be said to have come out of the blue. Rumors of the F-150’s demise have been circulating for more than a month, and last week SK On ended its joint venture with Ford that was building a pair of EV battery plants in Kentucky and Tennessee.
Ford has announced its plans to reboot the F-150 Lightning into an EREV with a gas generator that could take it to a range of 700 miles.
It’s official. The all-electric pickup is dead, but Ford is promising the F-150 Lightning EREV will be “every bit
Ford announced a series of moves in its EV business, pivoting to a hybrid and extended range EV (EREV) strategy instead of full EVs, and will take a whopping $19.5 billion in charges related to the move.