Ford ends F-150 Lightning production, starts battery storage business
Ford ends F-150 Lightning production, starts battery storage business
It looks like battery electric vehicles are out of fashion at the Blue Oval.Jonathan M. Gitlin (Ars Technica)
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LastYearsIrritant
in reply to along_the_road • • •Large, heavy electric vehicles don't make a lot of sense. The F-150 lightning was a neat idea, but smaller EVs make far more sense for personal vehicles.
Electric vans would be much better as a work vehicle.
Electric work trucks aren't ready yet.
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Ulrich
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SaveTheTuaHawk
in reply to Ulrich • • •Cough.bullshit.cough.
Yes, an F150 lighning can haul a boat, no, not very far, and half that distance in cold weather.
Ulrich
in reply to SaveTheTuaHawk • • •spit_evil_olive_tips
in reply to Ulrich • • •yeah...no
the non-electric F-150 has multiple bed lengths (5.5', 6.5', and 8')
the Lightning only offered the 5.5' "short bed" length
if you actually need a work truck, the Lightning is deficient in the #1 thing that makes a work truck a work truck.
for another comparison - the "short bed" option on the F-250 is 6.75' long, in addition to the 8' "long bed".
Ulrich
in reply to spit_evil_olive_tips • • •yeah...no
The "#1 thing" depends on the application. It can be power, towing capacity, payload capacity, just a bed in general, the massive amount of electrical power available to power tools, passenger capacity, cost of ownership, etc. etc.
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in reply to dhtseany • • •They actually did sell them discounted down to $50K.
The reality is pickup drivers dont give a fuck about the environment.
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in reply to hperrin • • •What I wanted was a nice little ranger style truck - 2 seater, can pick up some lumber, decent sized bed, for in my garage. What they made was a giant crew cab monstrosity that takes up 2 parking spaces and costs 2x what I would have spent.
Car companies keep trying to tell us customers what we want then are surprised when we don't buy.
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GrindingGears
in reply to Scrubbles • • •I think that's what we all want. Id be front of line for what you described too.
I'm really paying close attention to those Telo Trucks, but they are a long way from market (if they make it, we've been here before, so many times now).
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Ulrich
in reply to Scrubbles • • •Those giant crew cab monstrosities are the best-selling vehicles in America.
The problem is that F150 buyers are the very largest anti-EV meatheads. It's the wrong market for such a vehicle.
TehPers
in reply to Ulrich • • •This. People either want a giant diesel-guzzling truck, or they want a small efficient truck as their second vehicle for moving things around. Nobody's looking for a giant EV truck, especially at that price.
All they had to do was make an EV Tacoma (size-wise). Instead, they made an EV F-150.
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in reply to Scrubbles • • •The Telo truck looks like it has promise, but it's far from mass production. I hope it lives up to its promises though, I would love to see small trucks make a comeback.
TELO Trucks | The All-Electric Mini Truck
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in reply to Scrubbles • • •I learned after what I saw with elio.
Twas sad
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calliope
in reply to along_the_road • • •It wouldn’t surprise me if Ford literally produced the vehicle because of subsidies.
If they could get a portion of the EV tax breaks, they wanted it.
Now that the current administration is obviously still obsessed with burning oil, it no longer matters.
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