Baua Electric

APRIL 4, 2024

Ford electric Explorer SUV (Source: Ford) After EV sales picked up in the first quarter, Ford is scaling back as it delays plans to launch its new three-row electric SUV. Ford’s F-150 Lightning remained the top-selling electric pickup, with sales up 80% over last year with 7,743 units delivered.

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Teslarati

MARCH 19, 2024

During its most recent earnings call, the company said it would slow down production of some of its EVs, including the F-150 Lightning. We developed a super-talented skunkworks team to create a low-cost EV platform. The first vehicle is set to arrive in late 2026 and will cost around $25,000.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 21, 2024

Audi plots a new lower-cost EV, an electric A3 or Q3 After unveiling the new Q6 e-tron this week, its next-gen premium mid-size electric SUV, Audi, is planning a smaller, lower-cost EV. Ford is shifting its plans to smaller, more affordable EVs. 1 will offer “affordable electric mobility for everyone.”

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Baua Electric

MARCH 19, 2024

Electrek’s Take The news comes after BYD declared a “liberation battle” against gas-powered vehicles by releasing more affordable electric models priced below (or around) their ICE counterparts. Although BYD is best known for its low-cost EVs, the Chinese automaker is expanding into luxury and mid-size SUVs to take on new segments.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Is Ford shifting its electric vehicle efforts away from large EVs like the F-150 Lightning , and focusing on translating the ethos of the Model T into the EV era? Now this is important because we made a bet in silence two years ago, we developed a super-talented skunkworks team to create a low-cost EV platform,” said Farley. “It

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Tesla helped former shareholder Toyota to bring back the Toyota RAV4 EV , an electric SUV and also aided its other OEM shareholder, Daimler (which also has since divested its Tesla shares), with the Smart ED and B-Class Electric. Ford Mustang Mach-E (& F-150 Lightning & E-Transit). Nissan Leaf – the Standard Bearer.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 22, 2022

Affordable & Luxury Electric Cars, Trucks & SUVs Coming. Some promises are being kept, some have been deferred, but we see a solid crop of 19 very likely new entries fairly evenly split between affordable and luxury electrics. This fancy model will come later, but we’ll see an affordable working truck in 2022.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

That chemistry, once dismissed for its puny energy density, is suddenly prized for low cost, long life and reassuring safety; especially for entry-priced models. Model Y SUV's from Giga Texas and Giga Berlin are also in line for the 4680, built at those factories' adjacent battery-production lines.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.) Furia explained, "The SUVs that we just completed that were outfitted with the XHT drive train could have been any SUV made by anyone.

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