Ford has this kind of money how?
That still leaves them $55k in the hole on each one!
It’s interesting that the incentive is directly to the dealer, rather than the buyer. I don’t think it’s unusual, though.
So Starbuck moms drive pickups?
NO SALE!
Still NO!
Christmas/Thanksgiving is coming. A free fruit cake with every Lightning.
At least they’d get one good product.
With the extended range battery at 131kWh, lets say you pull up to a charger with 20% left and charge up to 80%. That's 79 kWh. You'd be good to get out of there in half an hour at the fastest chargers. Driving 75 mph on the highway (with no load), you'd probably get a real world range of 170 miles before you stop another 30 minutes to charge. One of many reasons a full size EV pickup is impractical.
As opposed to an EV car (smaller battery, better miles per kWh) charging in 15 minutes every 200 miles. A little pre-planning with trips with plenty of chargers (i.e. up and down the eastern seaboard like I did this past summer), means driving and charging an EV is about as fast as driving and filling up a gas car (at least as often as my wife wants to stop and stretch her legs LOL). So we're able to compare charging prices with gas prices on those trips and pick which of our two cars is cheapest to drive (EV car or gas pickup).
But even with that, an EV is practical only if you drive enough miles for the gas savings to be worth it, can charge at home, have two cars so that one car can be a gas car for the times an EV won't do, and don't drive much in the northern cold winter. Anyone who doesn't meet all of those criteria shouldn't consider an EV. That's from a free market and practical standpoint. Not from the warmageddon-cult-government-should-incentivize-or-force-everyone-to-drive-EVs perspective like the Dims do.
While the design appearance is interesting, it is still impractical for what I need.
Some new new trucks are cheaper than 2 y.o. new trucks. Hmmmm.
The car companies are going to learn a hard lesson on EV’s and consumer demand. They got too cozy with Joe and his per-car handouts.
Auto dealers in my area are pushing $10K to $15K rebates for high end trucks/Suvs regardless of the fuel used. Who in their right mind is going to buy a $80K to $100K truck to drive around town to show off?
it’s gotta be difficult to keep all of those batteries charged in all of those overglorified golf carts...
No one wants oversized electric golf carts, even if they look like real trucks.....
Fanbois hardest hit.
...and even Ford’s once white-hot electric pickup truck may be starting to feel the burn.
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Is white the color that these EV’s produce when they torch on the side of the road? Thats the only thing “white hot” about this Ford Lightning boondoggle.
I figured out the EV BS scam a long time ago when the IRS added a line item on the 1099 for a tax break for purchasing an EV.
Meanwhile,the stupid bastards are still trying to figure out how to build a platform that runs on gasoline without recalls. Never again.
Dealers have F150’s coming out their ears.
Wow, $20k off a $100k truck is an $80k bargain in my book. I’ll take a dozen.
Months ago, Audi rolled out discounts on EV leases.
Podcaster explained: Dealer got a huge discount if he could move minimum 5 high end units. Total net cost split between 5 leasees.
Wait for the customer lease deals