The era of the all-electric pickup truck is here, and it doesn’t look to be slowing down any time soon. That includes efforts from GM’s crosstown rival, Ford Motor Company, which recently announced that the company’s next-gen electric pickup model would arrive in 2025.
Ford’s new all-electric pickup is codenamed Project T3, which stands for “Trust The Truck,” and will be produced at Ford’s new BlueOval City production facility currently under construction in West Tennessee. The new truck will serve as the successor to the current F-150 Lightning and rival the Chevy Silverado EV and GMC Sierra EV.
“Project T3 is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to revolutionize America’s truck,” said Ford president and CEO, Jim Farley. “We are melding 100 years of Ford truck know-how with world-class electric vehicle, software and aerodynamics talent. It will be a platform for endless innovation and capability.”
Critically, T3 is under developed “in tandem” with the new BlueOval City production facility, where it will be produced with “radical simplicity, cost efficiency and quality technology,” according to Farley. When complete, BlueOval City will span some 3,600 acres and will produce both vehicles and batteries. The facility is the result of a $5.6 billion investment from Ford and SK On, and is set to achieve carbon neutrality, supporting Ford’s goal of powering all of its global production facilities via renewable and carbon-free electricity by 2035.
Once it reaches full production, BlueOval City will have an annual electric-truck production capacity of 500,000 units. Ford hopes to reach an annual global run rate of 2 million EVs by late 2026.
Ford also says that the new production facility will create 6,000 new jobs. In order to fill these new positions, Ford is launching the new BlueOval Learning training program, which will include new STEM programs and curricula for K-12 schools and universities, advanced manufacturing learning opportunities in local schools, post-secondary education partnerships, and technical training, as well as the BlueOval City TCAT, a state-of-the-art training center created thanks to a $40 million investment made by the State of Tennessee.
In the meantime, Ford has also announced that it expects a full-year $3 billion loss for its Ford Model e division in 2023.
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In other articles, it’s been revealed that Ford does not anticipate making a profit on its EVs until 2026. GM says its EV business will be profitable in 2025. I don’t know how these corporations can run like this – especially given the recent economic downturn.
Just in time for the next gen small block, cheap gas and ending of the EV tax credits. Ford is in pretty dire straits. Go woke, go broke. Dodge may actually pull ahead of them in a couple years
Just great…..more EV’s, more EV fires.
“It will be a platform for endless innovation and capability”
Thanks, but I just need it to be affordable and practical…
Thus is Ford’s Saturn plant. Overpromise and underdiliver and a tremendous waste of dollars. Ford will be lucky to make half of the 500k figure.
Jim Fairley is the biggest cheerleader. All he do is run or fly to the next microphone and cheerlead. When do he has time to problem solve and trouble shoot concerns at Ford? I remember Elon Musk stayed and slept at factory until all problems was solve. But this guy jetset to the next open microphone.
You’re correct, all of Tesla’s problems were solved while Elon slept. While he was awake he was an annoyance to all the engineers working to solve problems. Just look how he fixed twitter, he turned a 44 billion dollar company into a 12 billion dollar company. Maybe the board should get him a My Pillow, a blanket, and a nook.
500K BEV Pickup Trucks a year is an amazing and very reachable goal for Ford.
GM better be paying attention.
Only gripe I have about the upcoming Silverado/Sierra is that the Frunk looks to not only be kind of tiny but very narrow as well.
GM didn’t prioritize the Frunk like Ford did. They spent crazy R&D money and time to make it as large as theyt possibly could. Ford totally understood the assignment.
Now I know that the front end of the (ICE) Lighning is bigger but zero excuse for GM to have a very narrow Frunk.
The Ford fits two Gold Bags and the GM Twins from all indication will not even fit one per reports.
The GM Team did not realize just how much people love their Frunks when they have one hence most of their BEV’s don’t even have one which is just stupid as I have been saying for a while.
You might get away with a sedan or CUV not having a Frunk but the Trucks needed to have a huge Frunk.
They dropped the ball on the Frunk!!!
So you are saying they need a Grand Frunk?
Grand Frunk Railroad deserves to be in the Hall of Fame.
The Ford is much better looking than the Silverado EV. All of that cheap black plastic on the Chevy real uglies it up. The weight savings isn’t worth the look. If they ever actually start rolling off the assembly line all that plastic will mean lost sales IMO.
No word on miles range. come on tell me it going to get 400 miles range like Silverado. At least GM bold enough to say 400 mile range, Ford?????
No one’s talking about how all
Electic vehicles lose half their value in three years, and if you do not park them in the shade and keep them from getting to cold in other words maintain 70 degrees then the batteries will not even last 8 years!