Ford Lightning News

The F-150 Lightning can charge Lightning, Mach-E and E-Transit EVs, as well as EVs from other brands with a SAE J1772 charge port. The all-electric 2022 F-150 Lightning has the ability to “share” its range with other EVs, Ford has revealed. Sharing this feature with the F-150 PowerBoost Hybrid, the F-150 Lightning can charge electric vehicles from both Ford—Mustang Mach-E, E-Transit, and F-150 Lightning—and other manufacturers. The available vehicle-to-vehicle charging feature enables owners to charge a friend’s vehicle during an outage or top off an EV battery for a neighbor. The F-150 Lightning makes vehicle-to-vehicle charging possible thanks to its onboard generator and high-capacity battery systems, as well as the...

I just received an email from Ford about the orders opening soon. This is the first time I actually got something official from Ford. Looking like it's going to happen in January. Here are a couple screen shots.

Ford has revealed a few more details about its updated projection to achieve electric vehicle production of 600,000 units annually within 24 months (by the end of 2023). As we understand, it does not mean 600,000 BEV produced globally in 2023, but that the rate, at least in December 2023, will be at 50,000 BEVs per month. Ford's CEO Jim Farley said in a recent interview with Bloomberg Markets and Finance that the company's business is improving in terms of parts supply and profitability. Check out the interview with Jim Farley below:

Ford Motor Co., for years a bit of a laggard in the race to electric vehicles, has taken a counterintuitive approach to EV sales: pumping the brakes. A few days ago, Ford stopped taking reservations for its F-150 Lightning pickup, an all-electric rig due out this spring. Some 200,000 electric trucks are spoken for from a factory planning to stamp out just 80,000 machines a year. Likewise, Ford has closed the order book on the hybrid version of its new Maverick, a small pickup that gets 42 miles per gallon. Meanwhile, on Friday, Ford CEO Jim Farley took to Twitter to say his charge would triple production capacity for its other runaway EV, the Mustang Mach-E. The company plans to be making 200,000 of the battery-powered ponies a year...

Ford will open for order January 20 2022 I read Jan 20 two days ago but I can't find it. I ask my Sells guy and he said oh they already leaked that to. https://www.f150gen14.com/forum/threads/official-memo-12-8-f-150-lightning-reservations-now-closed-order-banks-open-january-production-begins-spring-not-all-reservations-will-be-my2022.7371/page-3#post-130965

Jim Farley took over as Ford CEO on October 1, 2020, succeeding former Steelcase CEO Jim Hackett. The big difference: Farley is a recognized "car guy," the highest praise you can receive in the automotive industry. And he relies on solid car people within his leadership team to turn his vision into sheetmetal and software. Now, Ford's product pipeline has never looked better; it includes a lot of game-changers. People cringed at the notion of an electric SUV badged "Mustang," but Farley's subbrand strategy is working, and the Mustang Mach-E is already outselling the conventional muscle car. Continue reading @ MotorTrend

According to a recent post on AutoBlog.com, the waiting list for Ford's e-truck is already over three years long! Initially, Dearborn said they planned to produce 15,000 units in the first year, when the truck launches in spring 2022. The following year, according to a Ford source, production would ramp up to 55,000. In 2024, that number would increase to 80,000 units, already representing a doubling from the initial target of 40,000 thanks to the authorization of an $850 million spend. If you do the math, that's 150,000 units. But as CEO Jim Farley told CNBC on Tuesday, Ford has received 200,000 reservations already. In other words, over three years of production capacity are already spoken for. Continue Reading @ AutoBlog

Ford Motor Co. Executive Chair Bill Ford this week exercised stock options to buy nearly 2 million shares of the automaker's common stock for approximately $20.5 million, a move the company characterized as a signal of his belief in where the business is headed. “The decision to exercise these options to purchase almost 2 million shares of common stock reflects Bill’s confidence in the future of the company and our plan to create tremendous value for all of our stakeholders," Ford spokesperson Mark Truby said in a statement. "In this transaction, Bill is paying the exercise price for these options in cash to hold the entirety of the almost 2 million resulting shares of common stock without any shares sold to cover the exercise price...

We all know that all-electric versions of the Ford Explorer and Lincoln Aviator are set to arrive sooner or later. Both crossovers will be following the F-150 Lightning as the next Blue Oval models to arrive without combustion engines under the hood. We also know that a new, dedicated EV architecture will underpin both crossover EVs. However, the latest development dictates a delay to the arrival of the next Ford EVs. That's according to a memo sent out to Ford's suppliers, obtained by Automotive News. According to the memo, the new EVs will enter production in December 2024. Continue reading @Motor1.com