Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The first Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck pre-production units have begun leaving the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center; the all-electric F-150 Lightning goes on sale next spring. The investment and 450 added jobs will help increase production capacity to 80,000 trucks a year. Ford has invested $7.7

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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

APRIL 27, 2022

Ford has begun full production of F-150 Lightning electric pickup at the ultra-modern Rouge Electric Vehicle Center within Ford’s historic Rouge Complex. F-150 Lightning is also converting many of them to first-time truck or electric vehicle buyers.

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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. Battery pack production is also ramping up at the Rawsonville (Mich.) Components Plant and the Van Dyke (Mich.)

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2023

Onboard solar power with 605W along with an innovative system of 6 kilowatt hours of 12V lithium battery to provide an estimated seven days of off-grid power, such as the ability to power appliances like a refrigerator/freezer for about a week. Ford F-150 Lightning Platinum Black Edition.

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Electric Cars Report

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Ford is introducing a new F-150 Lightning model – F-150 Lightning Flash – a tech-forward offering that brings together most of current customers’ favorite features under $70,000.

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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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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). Purpose-built features from F-150 Police Responder include: Police-grade heavy-duty cloth seats with reduced bolsters to help holstered officers enter and exit the vehicle more easily.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Magna has secured new business from General Motors (GM) to supply battery enclosures on the all-new 2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV. Clair, Michigan, where it already produces the battery enclosure for the GMC HUMMER EV. Magna is also making battery enclosures for the Ford F-150 Lightning.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Ford celebrated the production start of the all-new F-150 at the Ford Rouge Center and confirmed construction of the new Rouge Electric Vehicle Center where it will build the all-electric F-150 by mid-2022. The new jobs will support battery assembly and production of the F-150 PowerBoost hybrid and fully electric F-150.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2023

Ford said that it is taking advantage of increased plant capacity, continued work on scaling production and cost, and improving battery raw material costs to help lower the MSRP of F-150 Lightning for all customers. In addition, Ford Credit is offering eligible buyers interest rates as low as 1.9% APR for 36-months.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Ford said today it would suspend F-150 Lightning production for another week after identifying issues with battery cells provided by supplier SK. SK has started building battery cells again in Commerce, Georgia.” SK has started building battery cells again in Commerce, Georgia.

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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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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

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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Teslarati

APRIL 10, 2024

Ford has reportedly implemented a round of price cuts to several trims of the 2024 F-150 Lightning. Citing a bulletin that Ford reportedly sent to its dealer network, CarsDirect reported that the F-150 Lightning’s price changes came into effect on April 5. Don’t hesitate to contact us with news tips.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Ford last week discussed the battery capacity for its F-150 Lightning pickup as part of a livestream held for “key stakeholders.” ” And then following that, it made some numbers for the Lightning’s two available packs official for the first time.

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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 Reports

DECEMBER 22, 2021

And battery pack numbers for the F-150 Lightning have been confirmed. Ford has confirmed battery sizes for the F-150 Lightning electric pickup, and to reach an estimated 300 miles in extended-range form. The Rivian R1T is one of this year’s best. Canoo is shifting first production plans to Arkansas.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Ford has stopped shipments of the 2024 F-150 Lightning, but not because there isn’t demand for the electric truck. Reports stated that an earlier pause in January was due to a concern with supplier parts, which halted both gas and electric F-150 models.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 10, 2024

Rimac is working on battery cells for future BMW EVs. And official Ford F-150 Lightning prices are heading back downward. The Fiat 500e is back, and we drove it in its element. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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Teslarati

MARCH 3, 2024

Ford is recalling over 200 F-150 Lightning units due to a loose or missing retention nut on the high-voltage battery that could increase the risk of a fire. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) last month issued a recall notice affecting as many as 216 F-150 Lightning units.

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Teslarati

MARCH 13, 2023

Ford confirmed this morning that production of the F-150 Lightning all-electric pickup restarted this morning at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center (REVC) following a shutdown due to a battery fire. Ford worked with battery supplier SK On to refine the engineering of battery cells, where the fire’s cause was pinpointed.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Update 1:46 PM EST: paragraph 3 updated with quote from Ford Ford is halting production and shipments of the F-150 Lightning, its all-electric version of the best-selling pickup truck in the United States, citing potential battery issues. Ford announced yesterday that it was investing $3.5 Ford announces $3.5B

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Teslarati

MARCH 21, 2023

Ford F-150 Lightning units were recalled as part of a battery manufacturing defect that halted production for several weeks. “Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2023 F-150 Lightning pickup trucks,” the NHTSA said. The F-150 Lightning units were built between January 20 and January 26.

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Electrek

MARCH 10, 2023

Ford has issued a recall related to its production halt of the F-150 Lightning over battery issues discovered during production. more… The post Ford is recalling just 18 F-150 Lightnings over recent battery problems appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2022

The all-electric F-150 Lightning has completed final EPA testing; some F-150 Lightning customers will benefit from an increase in range ahead of launch this spring. Fleet customers have the option to purchase the extended range battery on Lightning Pro and that has an EPA-estimated range of 320 miles.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Ford plans to cut its F-150 Lightning production by about half in 2024. The legacy automaker’s new plan for the all-electric F-150 Lighting is to produce about 1,600 units weekly at Ford’s Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, Michigan. The EV unit lost $3.1 billion full-year operating loss estimate.

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Electrek

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Ford aims to help F-150 Lightning owners save on monthly electricity costs with a new vehicle-to-home (V2H) partnership. The “first-of-its-kind collaboration” will use the Lightning’s powerful battery with smart thermostat tech to unlock new savings.

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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. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 9, 2022

The 2023 Ford F-150 Lightning extends its range for its second model year, and Ford juices its starting price by at least $7,000, the automaker revealed Tuesday.

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Teslarati

MARCH 10, 2023

Ford has recalled 18 units of the F-150 Lightning all-electric pickup, stemming from a battery cell issue that stopped production nearly a month ago. Ford said today that it would recall them due to “a battery cell manufacturing defect” that occurred over a four-week period at the end of 2022.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2022

All-solid-state lithium batteries could address a number of the shortcomings of conventional lithium-ion batteries in advanced applications such as in electric vehicles, which demand high energy densities, fast charging, and long cycle lives. cm 2 ) by annealing the sample in a battery form. —Kobayashi et al.

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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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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The United States Forest Service (USFS) is now testing the Ford F-150 Lightning as it begins to transition its 17,000 vehicles (fossil powered at the moment) to a rugged, sometimes off-road fleet of over 17,000 battery-electric vehicles. The […].

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Green Car Reports

MAY 20, 2021

The F-150 Lightning electric truck has been revealed at a very affordable starting price. Ford and SK Innovation announced a joint venture to make EV batteries in America. The 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup will start at. And we check in about why the Lightning won’t have in-wheel motors.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 21, 2023

Ford has just announced that the F-150 Lightning will be entering the most cutting-edge battery-electric vehicle market in the world, Norway, for the first time. In my 25 years […]

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