AutoForecast Options says the next-generation Ford F-150 Lightning has a manufacturing begin date of August 18, 2025. After that, AFS predicts 4 months of manufacturing overlap between it and the present F-150 Lightning, which is anticipated to stay in manufacturing till December 24 of that 12 months. These are two extra speculative items within the hazy puzzle of Ford’s electrical truck technique over the subsequent few years. Primarily based on information stories in addition to feedback from Ford CEO Jim Farley for the reason that first F-150 Lightning launch, we all know there’s lots coming, but it surely’s not clear how a lot shall be unique to the Lightning line or shall be folded into a brand new pickup.
The approaching electrical full-sizer will experience on the brand new TE1 platform which may even be headed for the Expedition and Lincoln Navigator, the devoted EV platform shedding platform ties to the normal ICE F-150 whereas getting higher batteries and extra vary. The BlueOval Metropolis manufacturing complicated in Tennessee may even construct one other EV pickup, one Farley instructed Automotive Information shall be “a car we shouldn’t have at the moment [on] a brand-new platform — a full-size pickup platform. We predict it should be extremely excessive quantity.” That is a pickup Ford has additionally described as “a next-gen electrical truck, totally different from the F-150 Lightning.” Laycee on the Miss GoElectric YouTube channel mentioned she spoke to Farley on the Lighting launch earlier this 12 months and was instructed the pickup would have a radical and maybe controversial design, energetic aerodynamics, and be capable of supply round 100 miles extra vary than the F-150 Lightning. No matter this rig is, Lacey mentioned Ford’s been engaged on it for roughly 2½ years.
Studies say there’s an electrical Ranger and an electrical Bronco on the way in which. Between these and no matter else Ford’s cooking up, it is exhausting to inform the place the Lightning ends and new merchandise start. And what sort of car does Ford not have at the moment that sits on a full-size platform, will be generously described as a truck, and is extremely excessive quantity? The electrical Ford Explorer and Lincoln Aviator are due in 2025, if these will be referred to as “vehicles.”
Within the meantime, the present Lightning and the Mustang Mach-E are nonetheless ready to maneuver to Sync 4A infotainment earlier than a delayed change to Android Automotive. The overhauled Sync is alleged to deliver customer-requested options like a refreshed interface, bigger icons, and new HVAC management utilizing the audio knob.
On the ICE aspect, Ford Authority stories the subsequent gas- and diesel-powered F-150 will debut subsequent 12 months for the 2024 mannequin 12 months.
