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Ford's F-150 Lightning Electric Pickup Truck Has Finally Arrived
[ZERO] The Ford F-150 Lightning pickup is officially coming to compete with Tesla. We have been tracking interest in Ford's flagship electric pickup projects and have watched reservations and consumer interest pick up over the last year. Now, it looks the pickup is finally ready to hit the road - and Elon Musk's Cybertruck, its most obvious competition, is still nowhere to be found. Ford executives have said the new pickup is going to be worth the wait. Linda Zhang, chief engineer on the project, told Bloomberg: "We were dealing with a ton of skepticism internally. It couldn’t just be a battery on wheels. We wanted it to be a real American truck that does work." This meant Ford had to create features that "hand't been invented yet," Zhang said. The truck's "frunk", for example, can hold 400 pounds of cargo and is comprised of 14 cubic feet of space. In selling an electric pickup, Ford is beginning to convert its extremely popular F-Series, which sells about 900,000 trucks a year, to electric. Posted by: Besoeker 2022-04-17 |
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