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2024 RHD AUSEV F150 Lightning Review

Baua Electric

AUSEV was kind enough, or brave enough, to throw GoAuto the keys to a right-hand drive F-150 Lightning XLT for an on-road test drive around Brisbane. It was a brief 25-minute drive, but it gave us a tantalising first taste of the battery-electric vehicles (BEV) that Australians are likely to covet in future – and right now, this is the only right-hand (..)

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EV ute overload: The electric pickups coming soon

EV Central

Tesla previously took $150 refundable pre-orders in Australia, but it has since stopped taking them. litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine with two electric motors, providing about 100km of EV range as well as the ability to travel further on petrol. It has now re-established it as an electrified sub-brand of GMC.

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Electric Car Watch #6: FORD's weak 2030 EV plan

Plug In India

Ford held a presentation called ‘Delivering Ford+,’ during which they highlighted a new strategy centered around electric vehicles, a new dedicated commercial business, and connected services. Ion Boost Pro lithium iron phosphate for commercial and long-range vehicles. So what are FORD’s plans towards electrification?

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New EV electric car calendar

EV Central

ACE-EV X1 Transformer – Australian-based start-up plans a small range of affordable EVs focused on light commercial duties. $5 BMW M cars – they’re coming with hybrid drivetrains. Ford F-150 Lightning – EV version of America’s top-selling large pick-up truck is also the fastest and most powerful.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. 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.)

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The four-door sedan will deliver 40 miles on a charge; a small gasoline engine will recharge the battery as it approaches depletion, extending its range by as much as 200 miles. Ive found it facinating how car commercials changed the main MPG number they promoted before gas went over $4 a gallon as city miles. It is 12 years later.

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