Two electric pickups from GM and Ford makers take surprisingly different approaches to electrifying the full-size truck The 2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV unveiled today by General Motors CEO Mary Barra shows the largest US auto company’s determination to hang onto its core large-pickup market even as vehicles of all sorts accelerate the transition from gasoline… Read more »
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Ford to increase production of F-150 Lightning (again)
Responding to soaring demand for its EVs, Ford has been regularly announcing increases in planned production numbers. In December, CEO Jim Farley said demand had been “two to three times what we expected.” Now Ford says it plans to double production of the F-150 Lightning at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn to 150,000… Read more »
Magna supplies battery enclosure for Ford F-150 Lightning
Magna is supplying Ford with battery enclosures for the upcoming F-150 Lightning electric truck. The enclosures will be the first built by Magna for Ford in the North American market. Their aluminum extrusions and stampings are assembled using a combination of laser hybrid and cold metal transfer (CMT) welding. Magna offers battery enclosures made from… Read more »
Constellium to supply aluminum structural components for Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup
Constellium (NYSE: CSTM), a supplier of rolled and extruded aluminum solutions for the global automotive market, will supply aluminum structural components for the electric Ford F-150 Lightning, which is expected to go on sale in the spring of 2022. The F-150 Lightning, like all F-Series pickup trucks, makes extensive use of high-strength aluminum alloys. Constellium-supplied… Read more »
Here come the electric pickup trucks! Rivian R1T in production, Ford boosts investment in F-150 Lightning
A startup EV-maker has won the symbolic victory of producing the first mass-market electric pickup truck. The first production Rivian R1T electric pickup truck has rolled off the assembly line at the company’s factory in Normal, Illinois. “After months of building pre-production vehicles, this morning our first customer vehicle drove off our production line,” wrote… Read more »
Ford unveils its 2022 F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck
The most popular vehicle line in the US now includes a battery-electric pickup truck. Is this the turning point for EVs? Wednesday evening, Ford unveiled its long-awaited battery-electric pickup truck, dubbed the F-150 Lightning. The name hearkens back to “the fastest truck in the world,” the Lightning F-150 SVT, which launched in 2002 with a… Read more »
Ford to reveal new F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck May 19
Pickups rule the US auto market, and the F-150 is the king of pickup trucks, so the fact that Ford is planning to release an electric version of America’s best-selling vehicle, which one marketing expert has called “the most successful consumer product in human history,” is a big deal. Ford has announced that it will… Read more »
NYC law enforcement agencies now have 1,000 plug-in vehicles in service
The police are plugging in. The City of New York’s Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS), which is in charge of procurement for municipal fleets, has announced that it now has over 1,000 plug-in vehicles assigned to law enforcement agencies. Not all of these are cop cars. Yes, the NYPD has nearly 500 plug-ins in… Read more »
Harbinger’s plan to conquer an underserved segment of the electric truck market
If you build it at price parity, they will buy Charged has been covering the electric truck market for a decade, and we’ve seen a lot of startup truckmakers come and go. The market is developing at a painfully slow pace—lots of pilots, but few large-scale deployments. The major OEMs haven’t fared any better with… Read more »
Ford dials back EV efforts, will focus on high-margin fossil fuel trucks
As expected, Ford has cancelled production of its F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck. Also no surprise to those of us who follow the industry: the company has issued a pair of press releases designed to frame the failure as a positive development. And it may be—if the company’s goals are to shore up its bottom… Read more »