Ford, F-150 Lightning and electric vehicle plans
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REEVs are staging a comeback with over 3 million vehicles expected to hit the road by 2030, with China leading, followed by US and EU.
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.
Brussels' proposal to abandon a 2035 deadline for a total shift to fully electric driving allows Europe's legacy carmakers more time to sell hybrids, but for the longer term, EVs are still the future,
Ford will take a $19.5bn (£14.5bn) hit as it tore up plans to invest significant sums into electric cars. The US car giant cut back electric vehicle (EV) production, including the production of large battery-powered pickup trucks, because of a slump in demand from drivers.
The European Union is planning to ditch a controversial ban on combustion engine cars starting in 2035 after months of debate and pressure from the automotive industry.
But what about the automotive aftermarket? Typically, this corner benefits from whatever progress is made on the OEM front—have Trump’s policies expanded or contracted its EV technological development?
As the European Union has looked to push carmakers towards electric vehicles, sales of EVs across the continent have been uneven, skewed more to northern and western countries, while nations further south and east have tended to lag.
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The European Commission backed away from what had been the world’s most aggressive timeline for phasing out internal-combustion engines, granting manufacturers and consumers more time to move off gasoline.