Ford Lightning News

With the first customers expecting to be able to pick up their Lightning this spring, more details are coming out about how the new EV is more than just a truck! The Pro model (base package) starts at just below $40k but if you want 300 miles of range per charge, owners will have to upgrade to the larger battery pack option, which bumps the price up to at least $72k. Kicker is, the upgraded battery will allow owners to power ones home for up to 3 days with the new Ford Intelligent Backup Power feature. The Blue Oval automaker has partnered with Sunrun, one of the nation’s largest solar companies, to turn the electric truck into a power bank for your house. This is a first in the pickup truck segment and Ford promises the 131 kWh...

Ford has issued a warning to all dealerships that are attempting to take advantage of 150 Lightning reservation holders and requesting more money from customers. But it looks like that might be an issue on preventing markups. In a report by electrek, they published how some Ford dealers are taking advantage of the huge demand for the Lightning and are marking the sticker price by as much as $30,000. Some of them were asking for ridiculous prices for the first few units of the electric pickup truck that they are expecting to get. A few of them were also asking for bigger deposits to get access to those early units. Ford has sent out a bulletin to its dealerships that they (Ford) is attempting to crack down on some of those businesses...

LARIAT The LARIAT features Premium Geometric Gray-Ion stain grille, 20-inch Dark Carbonized Gray wheels, leather-trimmed heated and ventilated seating, a power tailgate, SYNC 4A with 15.5-inch touchscreen and features 9.6 kW Pro Power Onboard standard. Plus available features like twin-panel moonroof, extended-range battery and Ford Co-Pilot360 Active 2.0.

XLT The F-150 Lightning XLT adds a Gray Ion Satin Metallic grille with a signature front lighting, cloth seating, extended running boards with enhanced zone lighting, a 360-degree camera and an Interior Work Surface. This model also offers and available extended-range battery, 9.6 kW Pro Power Onboard and Ford C0-Pilot360 Assist 2.0.

PRO The Pro comes standard with 2/4 kWh Pro Power OnBoard and Ford Co-Pilot 2.0 driver assist technologies. It comes with a 14.1 cubic foot Mega Power Frunk and this the largest amongst all trucks and and carry up to 400 lbs. The Pro has a targeted EPA-estimated range of 230 miles. But there is an option available to add the extended-range battery that offers a targeted EPA-estimated 300 miles of range. On the inside of the truck, you get the SYNC 4 with a 12-inch touchscreen and durable vinyl seating.

Ford has officially stopped taking reservations for the 2022 Ford Lightning 150's as the demand has reached 200,000. Production of the Lightning is continuing and is expected to start shipping them out the first half of 2022. These reservations for the Lightning are $100 refundable deposits and started back in May of 2021. Basically, what this means if one has not made a reservation, they can still try and get the Lightning from a dealer or order from the company's website. Ford does not know how many Lightnings they will make in 2022, but plan make as many as 80k in 2023. The company has publicly said it wants to build that many in 2024 after originally targeting just 40,000 annually and has been hiring new workers to handle the...

The great thing about Ford, they never stop with coming up with new products. The plan is to add a 2nd Generation Electric F-150 as soon as the 1st Generation hits the road. According to CEO, Jim Farley, the F-150's will be built at the upcoming 4th Ford plant in the US (BlueOval City). Farley didn't give many details about the 2nd Gen, but he did say it will be a new vehicle on an entire new platform and will also be full sized. Farley went on to say that he thinks the 2nd Gen will do quite well, seeing that there has been well over 200k reservations for the 1st series (which is 2 to 3 times more than Ford expected). Feels it will have the same, if not more interest from customers than the Gen 1 received. The Blue Oval has its...

I heard from a friend of mine that works with Ford that they have stated in their recent meetings, that they only plan on building 15,000 Lightnings in 2022 and only around 30,000 to 40,000 in 2023. That's a far cry for the amount of reservations that they have already. All of those 2022 builds will be the Platinum series, so with the prices of those, many will probably drop their orders. The 2023 builds will be a mix of the lower series trucks. I looked this info up and I did find that CarBuzz has some great information on it. Ford has a hit on its hands despite not having built a single production version yet. The F-150 Lightning has managed to draw around 160,000 reservations, far exceeding initial expectations. That's why Ford...

With the over 160,000 F-150 Ford Lightning reservations, the 2022 Lightning has now entered its 2nd phase. According to Ford CEO Jim Farley, the production team is putting out units used to prove out quality before full-scale Ford F-150 Lightning production begins in a few months. The demand for the F-150 Lightning prompted Ford to double its original production target to 80,000 units per year, along with investing an additional $250 million to add 450 more jobs at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center, the Van Dyke Electric Powertrain Center – which builds electric motors and electric transaxles, and the Rawsonville Components Plant – where batteries are assembled. As reported back in September, the traditional car assembly is not the...

Ford states that it relied heavily on current customers and fleet owners to help make decisions regarding the Lightning's frunk, and the result is a huge space with multiple power sources and ample room for two golf bags. The Lightning frunk is bigger than what the Rivilan has to offer to offer the Rivlian frunk is massive! Lightning frunk offers 14.1 cubic feet of cargo volume, which is roughly the size of what a midsize sedan trunk would be. To reference the size, 2 full size goods bags should be able to fit inside the Lightning’s frunk.

Ford Motor Company has confirmed that the have reach well over 160,000 reservations. The reserve banks started only 6 months ago so that means they have taken an average of around 27,000 orders a month!

Ford maybe not telling us everything about how powerful the battery life range really is. A YouTuber named Marques Brownlee, a.k.a. MKBHD, revealed that it could attain more than 450 miles of range. There’s new supporting evidence, which, if true, would mean that when the F-150 Lightning hits the roads, it could be ahead of the competition. In July 2021, InsideEVs hitched a ride in a Ford F-150 Lightning prototype with Darren Palmer, and it was not in the prototype from MKBHD’s video in May 2021. Palmer, who is the general manager of Ford’s BEV division, did the driving. This prototype’s touchscreen indicated a 472-mile range estimate when the battery was at 100% SoC. Palmer said that the final F-150 Lightning that goes to customers...

Ford together with Google has created F-150 Lightning Strike Anywhere, an augmented reality experience to help customers to know about the key elements of the all-electric pickup truck. F-150 Lightning Strike Anywhere is a 3D and augmented reality experience that will allow owners to view and learn about a virtual F-150 Lightning truck in their own environment via smartphone. There are 13 interactive animations that will inform them about key features of the EV including functions and services, like the electric vehicle’s mega power frunk, battery range, towing capabilities, convenient charging solutions on the road and at home, interior connectivity, smart bed and much more. Source - HC Auto