Ford ideas a whole-dimensions electric powered truck with “unbelievably higher quantity”

Ford is getting ready to follow up the 2022 F-150 Lightning with yet another comprehensive-sizing electrical pickup truck developed from the start out for “incredibly higher volume,” Ford CEO Jim Farley stated in an job interview with Automotive Information (subscription needed).

The new entire-dimension truck, which very likely is not going to arrive for a couple of years, will have a new system, and will be created at one particular of the significant new factories Ford lately announced, Farley stated.

Ford in September announced two massive complexes in Kentucky and Tennessee, with the Tennessee facility slated to establish a up coming-generation truck on a committed EV platform. That differs from the by now-uncovered F-150 Lightning, which is centered on the current gasoline F-150.

Farley also explained Lightning desire is about two to 3 instances better than what Ford anticipated.

Ford now has “160,000 models of demand” for the Lightning, Farley mentioned. The automaker originally planned for production potential “considerably north” of 20,000 models per calendar year, but nowhere in the vicinity of that sum, he said. Ford previously before this 12 months doubled Lightning output to 80,000 models for every 12 months.

That was probably a response to original buyer fascination. Reservations for the Lightning are nearing 200,000, and Ford is functioning to transform those reservations to actual orders, Farley reported.

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Standard Motors—Ford’s arch rival in the truck segment—is also planning to start its initial electric pickups. GM has used a “structural sandwich” strategy to the 2022 GMC Hummer EV, giving it the ability to match pretty huge battery packs. But the enterprise however demands to clearly show that it can be scaled up at the volumes entire-dimensions electrical trucks may possibly perhaps want.

The future electric Chevrolet Silverado will also be a high-quantity entry, with some at a selling price fleets can afford—although GM hasn’t nonetheless mentioned just what that means.