Ford, F-150 Lightning and electric vehicle plans
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The move comes as a response to the Trump administration’s waning support for electrification and a weakening consumer market.
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 Motor is keeping the F-150 Lightning, but changing its technology. It plans to add thousands of jobs and enter this new business.
Ford says the next generation of the F-150 Lightning pickup truck will transition to a range-extended EV powertrain.
It’s official. The all-electric pickup is dead, but Ford is promising the F-150 Lightning EREV will be “every bit
The operating reality has changed, and we are redeploying capital into higher-return growth opportunities,” Ford CEO Jim Farley said.