The fully-electric Ford F-150 Lightning pickup will make its official debut during a special live-streamed event on May 19th, the automaker announced this week.
The debut event will be held at Ford World Headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan at 9:30 p.m. EST and will be “livestreamed for millions to watch,” across multiple platforms, including the brand’s different social media pages and on the social media pages of various national media publications. The event will also be streamed to 18 “out-of-home,” locations in well-known tourist areas such as Times Square in New York City and Las Vegas Boulevard.
In a statement released this week, Ford CEO Jim Farley said the all-electric F-150 Lightning will disrupt “the status quo,” and “change the game,” with its innovative battery-electric powertrain and impressive battery-powered performance.
“America’s favorite vehicle for nearly half a century is going digital and fully electric,” Farley said. “F-150 Lightning can power your home during an outage; it’s even quicker than the original F-150 Lightning performance truck; and it will constantly improve through over-the-air updates.”
2021 Ford F-150
The Ford F-150 Lightning will be built at the Ford Rouge Complex in Dearborn, Michigan, the same site where the standard internal combustion engine variants of the popular full-size truck are produced. Ford has invested $700 million in the Rouge Complex to prepare it for F-150 Lightning production, most of which went toward a new assembly line dedicated to the truck called the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center. Production of the Ford F-150 Lightning will begin in the spring of 2022, with deliveries set to commence shortly after.
GM is preparing its own rival to the Ford F-150 Lightning with the future all-electric Chevy Silverado. The electric Silverado will be built alongside the GMC Hummer EV pickup at the automaker’s Factory Zero plant in Michigan and will utilize the automaker’s Ultium battery technology and Ultium Drive electric motors. The truck will also boast more than 400 miles of GM-estimated range and will be offered in both retail and fleet versions.
2021 Chevy Silverado 1500
More details on the Ford F-150 Lightning, including information on its performance, range and price, should be announced during the debut event later this week.
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Found On Road Dead is where ALL evs will be.
Actually EVs are supposed to be more reliable that ICEs due to there much simpler design and far fewer components. If Tesla could nail build quality and stop with those useless gimmicks, like the falcon wing doors, they could have some reliable products.
Batteries have to be replaced every 100k miles for $25k. And they are more toxic than diesel.
Sure!
Am the owner of the 2nd gen Lightning, Am not particularly excited about it returning as a 4 door truck without the 760hp 5.2SC V8. But done right as a Performance EV Pickup, I might buy 1 in red the name is Legendary
This is shocking!
So much for gm bragging about Ultium, in-house electric motors and 30 Lectrics by 2030. Ford leaves gm in the dust and all were stuck with is that cheap, disgusting, crappy interior in the 2022 trucks. GM is good at bragging, but terrible at delivering class leading product.
Ford is still behind GM on the Trucks and EV Models.
Um Ford truck hasn’t been produced yet!
Please piss off to Ford Authority, fan boy.
Ford is never going to let anyone get ahead of the F150, not a silly Cybertruck, not Rivian, not anybody.
Ford owns a slice of Rivian, teammates, not competitors…
We shall see who sells more in 2022….The Silly Cybertruck or the stupidly named F-150 Lighting
Now as far as Ford vs GM is concerned, Chevy better showcase their Silverado EV very soon as the F-150 is already getting lots of Pub.
Well, seeing how bad the Mocked-E is doing leads to one conclusion..
Failed On Recharge/Discharge…….
Oooooo, that’s a new one, still just as dumb and pathetic as “Found on road dead” get a life, GM ain’t any better.
But yet you’re trolling here, go to Fraud Authority and talk about their defective trucks…..
I’m not strictly a Ford person. I buy vehicles from all American brands right now I actually have an f150 and an equinox in my driveway, I support all American car brands, I just don’t get why people hate on Ford simply for no reason. I’ve owned Fords that have had issues but I’ve also owned Chevys and Jeep’s with issues as well.
Your on a GM site not a Found On Road Dead site.
Did you read my comment above? Get some glasses.
So this is actually the F-150 Raptor that we’re looking at here and not the standard version, either way it will be nice to see what’s been done.
Ford is saying the Lightning will be much like a regular F-150, an actual truck. The Hummer and Rivian are luxury SUT’s. The big question is the Silverado EV? Will it be a cheaper version of the Hummer, with a shorty bed, or an actual truck?
I don’t know if anyone can trust Ford, so far all Ford EV attempts have been nothing less failure! History remembers! LOL!
Ford has had two EVs, a focus several years ago. That was a compliance car built in extremely low volumes, and the newest Mach-E which has been on sale for a few months. So what are you going off of???
I think you got off at the wrong exit, Ford authority is down the road.
gm brags to drive their stock prices higher to please the shareholders, but their customers are stuck with outdated products. Ford forced their hand with the Lectric F-150, gm’s plans for a Lectric pickup were further down the road, now, once again, their forced to play catch-up.
Silverado ev is scheduled for production September 2022, same time as this lightning, not seeing the problem here
The Lightning is schedule to be produced in March ’22
The Chevrolet Silverado EV will likely launch in late 2022 as a 2023 model, a few months after the F-150 Lightning.
GM will still be ahead of Ford when it comes to EV’s. The Silverado EV will be GM’s 8th EV, the F-150 Lightning will be Ford’s 2nd EV. GM also plans to have 30 EV’s globally by 2025.
Nothing Ford does will compete with gm, despite mary’s sabotage of gas cars.
LFX323HP,
The only thing that the Chevrolet Silverado EV & GMC Hummer EV will have in common is that both trucks will ride on GM’s all-electric Ultium platform. The Silverado EV will be less luxurious, more practical, and way affordable than the Hummer EV.
That is my entire point, will it be an actual truck on the Ultium platform? Will it have capabilities in terms of cargo hauling, towing, etc…or is it another SUT with a small bed? Only time will tell?
Lightning is a logical name for an electric truck but I got to think some of the Lightning purests are a bit disgruntled it’s coming back in this form.
You have no idea. The Lightning purests that work at Ford are annoyed.
I have owned my first gen Lightning 25 years and I would never replace it with a new truck. The original Lightning would run neck and neck with a contemporary 454 SS with 103 fewer cubes and was among the best looking pickups ever made. But you cannot drive past a gas station without emptying your wallet. The new one, although probably an oversized, ugly 4-door, will solve that problem.
I just buy Japanese trucks they are reliable and maintain there resale value 😂
Hehe
This makes me sick to say but did you guys hear the Rumor that Ford will most likely make the Bronco an EV as well?
That will be a Grand Slam if they do. I am NOT a Ford fan at all but the new Bronco is amazing and I am so upset that Chevrolet has nothing for it.
great until the same hackers that are holding the pipeline hostage hold the electric grid hostage, Bicycles are going to make a come back like in Europe, maybe even horses. The good old USA.
Funny you chose to make this comment amidst an actual ransomware attack holding half the US’s oil supply hostage.
At least electricity is easy to produce on your own. Try getting and refining oil.
GOOD LUCK WITH THAT, WHAT ARE YOU SOME SOLAR GUY AND HAVE A WINDMILL IN THE BACK YARD OR A GENERATOR WITH PROPANE . GET REAL
If that’s the design; they definitely phoned it in.