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.
The company is abandoning plans for a brand new all-electric pickup truck codenamed "T3" and ending production of the battery-only Lightning.
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 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 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.
The Ford Motor Company's recent announcement regarding the near-future strategy (until 2030) includes the unsurprising bombshell of an EV truck's untimely death
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.
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.