Ford Lightning News

The 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning won't just be able to power your tools or tailgate on the road or a few key appliances during an electrical outage, but your entire home. Thanks to a partnership with Sunrun, the Lightning's charging interface can be used as an emergency home power backup without any manual intervention at all. Ford calls it Intelligent Backup Power. Continue Reading @ Autoblog or Check out the video below:

Ford is planning additional investment of up to $20 billion in building its electric vehicles, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday. The investment of $10 billion to $20 billion will be spread out over the next five to ten years and will include converting its present factories around the world to electric-vehicle production, the report said, citing people familiar with the plan.

Ford Motor Company has moved to patent a magnetized pickup truck bed that could seriously change the way we move cargo. According to a series of USPTO documents first discovered by MC&T, FoMoCo is exploring several ways to secure bed loads using magnetization. The documents detail embedding a set of magnets within the truck bed that could be used to create a magnetic field that would not only change the level of magnetic force applied but also be capable of rotating and moving relative to each other in order to create a magnetic field that encompasses the entire bed floor or just sections of it. Continue Reading @ MC&T

Ford has decided to launch a new pilot program alongside the Sonoma County Winegrowers, in a bid to send multiple Ford F-150 Lightning Pro pickups, E-Transit cargo vans and other Ford Pro Intelligence products to three farms in Northern California’s Sonoma County. The pilot program is launching with Bevill Vineyard Management and Vino Farms in Healdsburg, as well as the Dutton Ranch in Sebastopol, which together represent about 4,000 acres in Russian River Valley. By the way, that right there is the real Dutton Ranch (more of a namesake), as opposed to the one John Dutton runs on TV in the fictional world of Yellowstone. Continue Reading @ Autoevolution

A member of the Ford Lightning Facebook Group posted an email indicating their first day, first hour Lightning Reservation was pushed to model year 2023. Has anyone else received this email?

In this interesting video, Engineering Explained figured out that the Ford F-150 Lightning not only can provide backup power or work together with a solar system, but it might be less expensive than multiple Tesla Powerwalls. Check out the video below:

DEARBORN, Mich., Jan. 27, 2022 – Ford is enhancing its used-vehicle digital marketplace, offering buyers increased peace of mind and ensuring Ford dealers remain leaders in the used-vehicle space. Beginning in February, vehicles sold under the Ford Blue Advantage platform will include a 14-day/1,000-mile money-back guarantee. Ford Blue Advantage, powered by industry leader Autotrader, lets customers search a wide selection of Ford and non-Ford products to find their ideal vehicle through a personalized shopping experience that includes a search-by-vehicle option and preference for home delivery, at-home test drive and video walkaround. All Ford and non-Ford vehicles listed through the program are inspected by factory-trained...

"Currently, production capacity stands at 75,000 F-150 Lightning models per year at Ford's Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, Michigan." Here's When You'll Get Your 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning (https://www.newsweek.com/heres-when-youll-get-your-2022-ford-f-150-lightning-1665122) Obviously, a lot depends on whether Ford can get its hands on the commodities required to produce those trucks. And conceivably revealing too much about where it is in being able to fully employ that capacity risks giving its suppliers too much leverage in negotiating prices. BUT: Ford needs to be more forthcoming about where it is in converting reservations to orders. Until it is, please publish the date and number of your reservation if you have been...

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