Ford formally launched its F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck on the present time, roughly 11 months after we got our first glimpses of what the battery powered workhorse would gape devour. “Vans are rolling off the line on the present time,” acknowledged Ford’s CEO, Jim Farley, on the conclusion of the match. “We’ll have the chance to originate shipping Lightnings in the impending days, starting with our Pro series.”
As these first EV vans rep delivered, Ford moreover acknowledged in a press unencumber that it’s taking off “full manufacturing” of the electrical pickups.
Right here’s what to know referring to the truck and the company’s EV plans, by the numbers.
150,000
Ford says that it might devour to construct 150,000 of these unique electric pickups each and each year. Farley licensed that they’d to expand the scale of the manufacturing facility, known as the Rouge Electric Automobile Center, in Michigan, two instances. “We’re busting our butts to possess more of these,” he acknowledged. “Keep a query to of for Lightning has actually pushed out the partitions of this building the set apart we are twice.”
First and major, the company had deliberate to possess fewer of these unique rides each and each year, however acknowledged in January that it might enhance that number to 150,000, “roughly doubling” their manufacturing design.
600,000
All told, Farley acknowledged that by the shut of 2023, Ford would be making 600,000 electric autos each and each year. Ford moreover makes the Mustang Mach-E electric automobile and the E-Transit van.
4 energy outlets
That’s the different of energy outlets in the auto’s frunk, or entrance trunk, which is formally known as the “mega energy frunk.” (Right here’s how a cardboard box figured into that half of the auto’s invent.) There’ll moreover be 5 outlets in the mattress of the truck, and two in the cab. As for the frunk, it will moreover raise 400 kilos of goods, whether or no longer that’s in the accomplish of some very heavy groceries, a bunch of bricks, or whatever it’s best to tote.
20,000 sheets of plywood
That is the different of pieces of plywood that Farley boasted you would perchance also decrease with a circular saw that’s plugged into the auto. Whereas your real looking person perchance gained’t be cutting that many pieces of plywood with a saw linked to their truck, the point is that the 10-kW-automobile is moreover a “powerplant, however on wheels,” Farley acknowledged.
About 4 seconds
That’s the pickup’s approximate 0-to-60 acceleration time. To position that in point of view, the “Performance Version” of Ford’s electric crossover, the Mach-E GT, will accomplish the identical in 3.5 seconds, GMC’s unique electric Hummer will accomplish it in 3 seconds, a Lamborghini Aventador LP 780-4 Ultimae will accomplish so in 2.8 seconds, and a Tesla Model S Plaid in round 2 seconds. Safety tip: You shouldn’t speed that rapid unless you’re on a discover, and besides, there are more primary aspects of a automobile than its acceleration time.
230 – 320 miles
A more shiny number for EV house owners to preserve into consideration is the differ, and right here is the Lightning’s differ of ranges, reckoning on which version you take. The price for the most price-effective version of the auto is available in under $40,000. There’s a rep, though: They’re laborious to rep. “Due to high ask, the unique mannequin year is no longer on hand for retail teach,” Ford notes in a video.