Ford recently announced that orders are now open for 2024 F-150 Lightning electric pickup trucks. Normally, there’s not much news when an automaker announces a new model year, but one big news item is some impressively low prices for the F-150 Lightning Flash, a tech-focused variant/trim of the truck. For … [continued]
I already wrote about Audi and BMW electric vehicle sales booming in the USA in the 1st quarter of 2024 compared to the first quarter of 2023. With more automakers reporting their sales numbers, we can now see that several other automakers also had strong year-over-year growth in EV sales. … [continued]
Ford claps back at electric vehicle doomscrollers with plans for a new EVs including confirmation of the secret “skunkworks” project.
Recently, Tom Moloughney and Kyle Conner took two Ford Trucks from New Jersey to Florida to see who would get there first. But there’s a catch: One had to rely on Electrify America stations and the other had to rely on Tesla’s Supercharger network. In most ways, this gives a … [continued]
A few days ago, Ford CEO Jim Farley teased us with a picture of a Ford Mustang Mach-e EV charging at a Tesla Supercharger, Farley promised “more details coming very soon.” Today, the company officially announced that its Tesla adapter is available for retail customers to order free of charge until June 30, 2024. After that date, it will cost $230. This means owners of Ford EVs, including the Mustang Mach-e and F-150 Lightning, will be able to use Tesla Superchargers to charge their EVs at high speed.
The Ford F-150 Lightning had a surge of sales at the end of 2023, but I have to admit that its production and sales are not ramping up as quickly as I’d hoped. It seems American pickup truck consumers still need some more time to get accustomed to plugin their … [continued]
Ford throws down the electric pickup truck gauntlet with the Switchgear, a meaty, swaggering, off-road version of the F-150 Lightning.
It wasn’t that long ago that a Colorado resident was interviewed for the Out of Spec Guide YouTube channel about purchasing a new Ford Lightning electric pickup truck in Colorado for $37,000. This number is much lower than the sticker price because the state of Colorado has some of the … [continued]
GM was the leader of the US EV market among legacy automakers for several years.* Going back to the early days of this EV era, it all started with the Chevy Volt extended-range electric vehicle (a plug-in hybrid with a bigger-than-typical battery). The Chevy Bolt EV then came along and … [continued]
Last year, Kelley Blue Book selected the Ford F-150 Lightning as its Best Electric Truck, and did so again for 2024. There’s a lot of misinformation and disinformation about electric vehicles online, but Kelley Blue Book has been a trusted information source for decades. It’s not the misinformed social media … [continued]
