Ford, EREV and Lightning
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Ford has revealed that its new F-150 Lightning will have a gasoline engine, but hold your horses: it's not quite a return to the SVT Lightning of old.
The automaker is ending production of its electric pickup while planning a series-hybrid F-150 and a new low-cost EV platform. “The company is shifting to higher-return opportunities,” Ford says.
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 move comes as a response to the Trump administration’s waning support for electrification and a weakening consumer market.
Ford says the next generation of the F-150 Lightning pickup truck will transition to a range-extended EV powertrain.
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Ford scraps fully-electric F-150 Lightning as mounting losses and falling demand hits EV plans
Ford Motor Co. is pivoting away from its once-ambitious electric vehicle plans amid financial losses and waning consumer demand for the vehicles.
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.
After years of bold EV promises, Ford is retreating from the F-150 Lightning and rewriting its electric future.
Ford confirms the fully electric F-150 Lightning ends production this year, but the Lightning name isn’t going anywhere.
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.
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