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Ford is ending production of the\u00a0fully-electric\u00a0F-150 Lightning\u00a0as part of\u00a0a\u00a0broader companywide\u00a0shakeup\u00a0of its electric vehicle plans,\u00a0the\u00a0company announced Monday. In its place, Ford will sell\u00a0what\u2019s\u00a0known as an \u201cextended range electric vehicle\u201d version of the truck, which adds a gas generator that can recharge the battery pack to power the motors for over 700 miles.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The company did not share when the new F-150 Lightning will go on sale, or how much it will cost.\u00a0Ford said it will report a charge of $19.5 billion in special items, most of which will be recorded in the fourth quarter, due to fact that this broader pivot will affect numerous vehicle and battery factories.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
This means Ford\u2019s next-generation all-electric truck \u2013 internally dubbed \u201cT3\u201d \u2014 is now dead. The T3 was\u00a0supposed to be a clean-sheet design,<\/a>\u00a0as opposed to the Lightning, which\u00a0had electric vehicle technology that was shoehorned into a gas vehicle design.\u00a0Ford confirmed to TechCrunch that it\u2019s also abandoning plans<\/a> for a next-generation commercial van. The current model, the E-Transit, will continue. <\/p>\n \u201cFord no longer plans to\u00a0produce select\u00a0larger electric vehicles\u00a0where the business case has eroded due to lower-than-expected demand,\u00a0high costs\u00a0and regulatory changes,\u201d the company wrote in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n The company is still planning\u00a0on releasing\u00a0a mid-sized all-electric pickup truck in 2027, the company confirmed Monday. The platform that powers that truck \u2013 born out of a skunkworks program led by former Tesla executives Doug Field and Alan Clarke \u2013 will also underpin other future Ford vehicles.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cRather than spending billions more on large EVs that now have no path to profitability, we are allocating that money into higher returning areas, more trucks and van hybrids, extended range electric vehicles, affordable EVs and entirely new opportunities like energy storage,\u201d Ford president Andrew Frick said on a call with reporters.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Ford revealed<\/a> the F-150 Lightning in 2021, two years after it first announced plans for an all-electric Mustang, the Mach-E. Ford teased a $40,000 price tag for the Lightning, which was meant to be a flagship product for the company\u2019s $22 billion push into electric vehicles.<\/p>\n Techcrunch event<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSan Francisco<\/span> Like most large electric trucks, though, the F-150 Lightning struggled in the U.S. market. Part of that was because the $40,000 price tag never materialized for most buyers, as that base trip was targeted specifically at fleet customers. Ford wound up selling around 7,000 Lightnings per quarter<\/a> over the last two years, with a peak of nearly 11,000 in the fourth quarter of 2024. <\/p>\n EVs have faced a lot of headwinds since the F-150 Lightning was first introduced. Tesla kicked off a dramatic price war to counter falling sales, which ate into legacy automakers\u2019 thin (or negative) margins. The re-election of Donald Trump, along with Republicans taking control of Congress, has led to a reversal of many Biden-era policies meant to encourage the sale of electric vehicles. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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