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Ford unveils F-150 Lightning electric pickup; starting at $39,974; arriving in 2022

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Ford unveiled the F-150 Lightning battery-electric pickup. F-150 Lightning offers a standard-range battery targeting 230 miles of EPA-estimated range and an extended-range battery targeting 300 miles of EPA-estimated range. 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning Platinum, Lariat, XLT. America’s No.

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Ford cutting F-150 Lightning production workforce by two-thirds

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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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F-150 Lightning orders, Mercedes EQXX, Tesla recalls and deliveries: Today’s Car News

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Mercedes previews tech and design details for its volume EV models coming in a couple years. Ford will soon let some F-150 Lightning reservation-holders spec their trucks. Should CO2 regulations focus more on the oil industry? Tesla delivers a new record in 2021 but faces some big recalls that aren’t over-the-air.

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Ford launches F-150 Lightning production at Rouge Electric Vehicle Center

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Ford officially launched production of the F-150 Lightning all-electric pickup truck today at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, Michigan. The F-150 Lightning was unveiled just under a year ago, in May 2021, and Ford CEO Jim Farley has high expectations for the all-electric pickup. I’d love to hear from you!

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Ford F-150 Lightning receives value trim, now prices $51,990

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Ford on Monday introduced clever value cuts throughout its F-150 Lightning lineup. That’s unwell $9,979 from sooner than however nonetheless up $10,321 from when the F-150 Lightning entered manufacturing in April 2022. It approach retail shoppers should improve to the F-150 Lightning XLT.

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Rice flash Joule heating process recycles plastic from end-of-life F-150 trucks into high-value graphene for new vehicles

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Segregating mixed end-of-life plastic by type for recycling has been a long-term problem for the auto industry, Tour said, and it’s becoming more critical because of potential environmental regulations around end-of-life vehicles. Process schematic, workflow, and current discharge for FJH conversion of ELV-WP into FG. Wyss et al.

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Ford: new F-150 features more than 100 new patents and/or patent applications

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Ford announced that its new 2015 F-150 ( earlier post ) 2015 Ford F-150 features more than 100 new Ford patents and/or patent applications, making this vehicle a benchmark for new technologies in Ford’s history, and its most patented truck. Ford is first in the auto industry to use this methodology.

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