Ford scraps fully-electric F-150 Lightning
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Ford expects ~$19.5B in special items, mostly in Q4 2025, with the remainder across 2026–2027. Read more here.
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Ford scraps fully-electric F-150 Lightning as mounting losses and falling demand hits EV plans
Ford Motor Co. is pivoting away from its once-ambitious electric vehicle plans amid financial losses and waning consumer demand for the vehicles.
Four years after Ford bravely electrified its best-selling vehicle, the F-150 Lightning pickup, it seemed ready to drop the model owing to slowing demand. Now, it turns out the company's got other plans.
Much of that sum reflects expenses related to canceling fully electric models that had been years in the making.
Ford says the next generation of the F-150 Lightning pickup truck will transition to a range-extended EV powertrain.
Plus, 16 states sue the Trump administration for freezing EV charging funds and Scout Motors gets license to sell directly to customers.
Ford Motor Co. is pivoting away from its once-ambitious electric vehicle plans amid financial losses and waning consumer demand for the vehicles.
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