RIP F150-Lightning

Yeah, it's a great truck. My son has one. But they were losing big bucks with it, and with EV sales down further, made sense to stop it now.
 
Yeah, big question now about Ford's EV future. My son bought a Lightning a year ago. Now it's a unicorn. I don't know if that is good or bad for existing owners. It is a great truck, owners love it (from their forum). Will be interesting to see what that does to used truck prices. There should be lot of them coming off lease in 2026.
 
The Lighting is a great vehicle, but it doesn't really fit the demographic who want to tow things long distances. Ford should have made a smaller EV truck, like a Ranger or Maverick.

Ford's new EREV (EV with range extender gas engine) sounds to me like it's going to be a failure. Vehicles will cost more to make because of the complications of adding a gas engine, and I've read the towing capacity is greatly reduced because of the limitations of the range extender engine. Meanwhile the cost of batteries is on the cusp of significantly dropping, so likely around the time the EREV platform comes to market EVs will start to be cost competitive with ICE.
 
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Yeah, been following the Lightning forum, and lots of upset folks over there. Most really like their Lightning the way it is. Better towing would be nice, but is not no-go for them. They had a poll, and most by far would not buy the range extender version. I personally have my doubts if that one will even make it to production and sales. If you really want to tow, best would be a diesel F350, not an EV.

Will be interesting to see what effect this has on the Silverado EV. It does have high range, but is not cheap. And on a trip would still be more expensive to tow than a diesel truck.

Problem in the US, is that public L3 charging is expensive. Here in Canada, esp in BC, L3 charging is much cheaper, and gas/diesel is more expensive.
 
Electricity in general is expensive here in the states. Rates just went to up 12.5 cents for generation, and it's about another .10 for delivery/fees/taxes/public benefits/etc that they tack on.
22 cents per kwh

I'm hearing L3 costs more than at home L2.

Meanwhile, gas is down to 2.69 this morning.
it was 2.69 10 years ago too. it should be $5 just to keep inflated-target price. So, electric here is actually half price of 2015 inflation adjusted. electric has continued to climb, keeping pace with inflation more than anything.
 
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