Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2022

Ford F-150 Lightning customers will benefit from more power and capability than they expected from their trucks. F-150 Lightning, the only full-size electric pickup available now with a starting price less than $40,000, will begin to ship to customers in the coming days, starting with the Pro Series.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2021

Ford announced that it will reveal the new battery-electric F-150 Lightning pickup—a revival of the name of the old Ford SVT Lightning performance truck—in 19 May in a livestreamed event at Ford World Headquarters in Dearborn. Now comes the F-150 Lightning. The reveal takes place at 9:30 p.m.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2022

Ford Pro launched the first electric pickup truck purpose-built for police: the 2023 Ford F-150 Lightning Pro Special Service Vehicle (SSV). Ford has been providing police departments with vehicles for more than 70 years.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2023

Ford Motor Company has resumed production of the F-150 Lightning following a six-week shutdown to expand and retool the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center plant to triple manufacturing capacity of the electric truck. It’s the first time such tools have been deployed in Ford’s North American plants.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Ford is launching a new sustainable charging program that allows plug-in electric vehicle owners in California to opt into carbon-neutral charging at home, reducing their carbon footprint from energy used to power their vehicles. Owners of eligible plug-in electric vehicles opt into the program through the FordPass app.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2022

PG&E and Ford will test the F-150 Lightning and its Intelligent Backup Power bidirectional charging capabilities in providing backup power for customers’ homes in PG&E’s service area. G&E and GM will test vehicles with bidirectional charging technology that can help safely power the essential needs of a properly equipped home.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 19, 2021

How do you make the shift to electric vehicles feel real to vast swaths of America? Make a fully electric pickup truck. Make that the best-selling truck in history, the F-150. With the arrival of the 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning revealed. That’s exactly what Ford has done.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2022

Ford F-150 Lightning owners receive 250 kilowatt-hours of complimentary charging through FordPass Rewards at Electrify America ultra-fast charging stations to kick-start their electric vehicle experience with Ford. This included charging benefit is available solely to F-150 Lightning retail customers.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Constellium SE will supply aluminum structural components for the recently introduced all-electric Ford F-150 Lightning that is expected to be available Spring 2022. The F-150 Lightning, and all F-Series pickup trucks, extensively use high-strength aluminum alloys.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2022

Ford Motor Company plans to raise production of the F-150 Lightning pickup at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn to 150,000 trucks per year to meet high demand, Beginning Thursday, the first group of reservation holders will be invited to place their orders for the F-150 Lightning.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Ford electric vehicles sales in the US were up 103% for November 2022 compared to year ago, making Ford the US’ second best-selling brand and manufacturer of electric vehicles behind Tesla. of total vehicle sales for the month. of all F-Series sales for the month). of all F-Series sales for the month).

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 10, 2022

Ford hikes F-150 Lightning prices. The Meyers Manx is back as a niche electric vehicle. Ford has boosted 2023 F-150 Lightning prices by at least $7,000, while boosting range with the standard 98-kwh battery pack to 240 miles. Lucid Air goes black. And EV buyers have great credit.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Siemens eMobility announced that it has worked with Ford on the Ford Charge Station Pro, a custom electric vehicle (EV) charger for the Ford F-150 Lightning. Earlier post.) The new charge station also features a peak power of 19.2kW, achieving the maximum power rating currently available for a Level 2 charge station.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Ford already has more than 160,000 reservations for its 2022 F-150 Lightning electric pickup, due for deliveries starting in 2022. Yet of the retail reservation-holders in that crowd, a recent survey suggested that nearly 80% have never owned a battery electric vehicle before.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2023

During a keynote speech to the Transportation Research Board annual meeting Wednesday, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chair Jennifer Homendy questioned the safety impact of electric vehicles. Its gross vehicle weight rating is a staggering 10,550 pounds. Electrifying vehicles adds yet more weight.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The Ford F-150 Lightning will be available with two battery sizes and four trim levels. Here's more.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2023

Honda revealed its second fully electric vehicle, the e:Ny1, at its European Media Event in Offenbach, Germany. It is the brand’s second pure EV to arrive in the region, following on from the Honda e city car, and is designed to meet the growing customer demand for all-electric B-segment SUVs.

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Teslarati

JULY 7, 2023

Ford reported that its F-150 Lightning sales were up over 100% in the second quarter. Ford reported that F-150 Lightning sales were up 119% in the second quarter compared to Q2 2022. The American carmaker noted that F-150 Lighting sales continue to attract new customers to the brand, 50% of which were new to Ford.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2022

Ford is reopening order banks for the next wave of reservation holders of the popular F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck, adding new improvements including boosting its standard range battery models to an EPA-estimated targeted range of 240 miles and adding Pro Trailer Hitch Assist technology. F-150 Lightning.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) has taken delivery of its first heavy-duty battery-electric vehicle, marking a step in the airport’s transition to a fully electric fleet.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The upcoming 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning will likely be the first electric truck—and the first U.S.-market market electric vehicle—delivered with the ability to pinch-hit for the electrical grid during an electrical outage.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Ford is reducing planned production volumes of the F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck by half next year, Automotive News reported Monday, citing a memo addressed to suppliers.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 27, 2022

Ford on Monday announced the start of "full production of 2022 F-150 Lightning electric pickup trucks at its Rouge Electric Vehicle Center, part of the massive Detroit Rouge Complex that builds non-electric F-150 trucks. In response to greater-than-expected demand.

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Electrek

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Ford’s electric vehicles are being put to good use, you know, other than saving the planet from harmful greenhouse gas emissions. Now, Ford reports its electric vehicles, including the F-150 Lightning truck and E-transit van, are being put to work for another kind of use – making a movie.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 8, 2022

Ford is threatening to punish dealers who demand additional deposits to reserve an F-150 Lightning, but can do nothing to control price gouging.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 20, 2024

Ford is shifting its production strategy toward two gas vehicles, with the automaker this week reiterating plans to reduce production of its F-150 Lightning electric pickup. Last month, Ford initially announced its plans to cut F-150 Lightning production by around half.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Customers can begin converting their reservation for the Ford F-150 Lightning into orders starting in January.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

An F-150 Lightning sitting in a holding lot on company property caught fire earlier this month, leading to Ford halting production at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center and issuing a stop shipment order until the cause of the battery fire has been identified.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Ford has begun deliveries of its F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck in Europe, with the first of the units going to a couple located in Norway. The delivery kicks off the F-150 Lightning’s entrance into the European market, beginning in Norway as expected. Hope your new F-150 Lightning serves you well!”

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The company will produce the enclosures at its Magna Electric Vehicle Structures facility in St. Magna is also making battery enclosures for the Ford F-150 Lightning. Clair to support the fast-growing electric vehicle market ( earlier post ).

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 4, 2022

Ford Jacks Up F-150 Lightning Production Target Ford seems to be more and more aware that the future is electric, and much of that seems to be coming from consumer demand. This has got to be one of the most uplifting cleantech stories of recent months here in the USA. A few short months ago, […].

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Teslarati

MARCH 28, 2024

Ford is cutting its F-150 Lightning production workforce by two-thirds as the company continues to try and ramp manufacturing of electric vehicles and work toward profitability. F-150 Lightning production was slashed late last year as Ford continued to weigh what a proper and strategic output of its EV pickup would be.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 19, 2022

Electrify America is giving 250 kWh of free (complimentary) charging to new Ford F-150 Lightning owners. One of the best things about electric vehicles is that you can easily, super conveniently charge up at home. Who’s actually getting the benefit of that?

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 17, 2024

The Ford F-150 Lightning SuperTruck is Ford Performance’s newest electric vehicle demonstrator SuperTruck will take on the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb presented by Gran Turismo with Romain Dumas behind the wheel This is Ford’s second consecutive year competing at the Hill Climb with an EV demonstrator, following the record-breaking.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 26, 2024

Sunrun and Ford are running a potentially game-changing first of its kind vehicle-to-home energy storage experiment this summer, leveraging the F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck. The post Ford F-150 Lightning Is A Rolling Energy Storage Beast, & Sunrun Is Here For It appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The Ford F-150 Lightning has just barely arrived on the market, yet I’ve already heard a few stories of the Lightning powering people’s needs in the event of power outages.

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Electrek

DECEMBER 22, 2022

One dealership in North Eureka found a unique solution by plugging in two of its electric vehicles – a Ford F-150 Lightning and a Kia Niro – to stay open. The post How an F-150 Lightning kept the lights on at a CA dealership after a major earthquake appeared first on Electrek.

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