EV Truck News

The FordPass Connect app was last updated on January 31 and carries some new images inside that indicate that a remote parking feature is planned for the app. Some of these images are labeled “freeDrive” but it is uncertain if this is the name of the feature or just the associated imagery for the F-150 Lightning. The images can be found in numerous places in the app and seem to indicate that a user with their iPhone (and we have to assume that Android users will have the same capabilities) can “drive” their vehicle forward or backward into a parking spot. Continue Reading @ electrek

CLAYCOMO, Mo., Feb. 8, 2022 – Ford E-Transit™, the electric version of America’s best-selling commercial van1 and the first of two all-electric vehicles purpose-built for Ford Pro™ commercial customers, is now shipping across the U.S. The popular E-Transit already has more than 10,000 orders from businesses of all sizes and Ford is working on ways to increase production. The all-new E-Transit is produced at Kansas City Assembly Plant – Ford’s first U.S. plant to assemble both batteries and all-electric vehicles in-house2. “E-Transit is a testament to the fact that an electric commercial fleet is no longer a vision of tomorrow, but a productivity-boosting modern reality,” said Kumar Galhotra, president of The Americas & International...

There are some anomalies in this list but it will be immensely helpful for those of us who have yet to receive an order message from Ford. Here is the list as of 8:55 am Mountain, Feb 6, 2022: Anomalies(?) By Reservation Date, it appears two reservations have received order emails out of chronological sequence Timestamps differ from Reservation Date (has this already been explained?) (I've been asking for something this for a while. Guess I just never looked.)

Ford Motor Co. said Thursday it made $10 billion before interest and taxes in 2021. That's up about $7.5 billion from 2020 and shows how the automaker's bottom line fared during a year dominated by the global chip shortage and the increasing buzz around Ford's electric vehicle efforts encapsulated by solid demand for the Mustang Mach-E. The automaker released its full-year and fourth-quarter earnings Thursday, showing it made $2 billion before interest and taxes in the fourth quarter, which is up about $0.3 billion from same period in 2020. For the year, the Dearborn automaker reported revenues of $136 billion, up $9 billion from the same period in 2020. For the fourth quarter, Ford reported revenues of just under $38 billion, up $1.7...

The 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning won't just be able to power your tools or tailgate on the road or a few key appliances during an electrical outage, but your entire home. Thanks to a partnership with Sunrun, the Lightning's charging interface can be used as an emergency home power backup without any manual intervention at all. Ford calls it Intelligent Backup Power. Continue Reading @ Autoblog or Check out the video below:

Ford is planning additional investment of up to $20 billion in building its electric vehicles, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday. The investment of $10 billion to $20 billion will be spread out over the next five to ten years and will include converting its present factories around the world to electric-vehicle production, the report said, citing people familiar with the plan.

Ford Motor Company has moved to patent a magnetized pickup truck bed that could seriously change the way we move cargo. According to a series of USPTO documents first discovered by MC&T, FoMoCo is exploring several ways to secure bed loads using magnetization. The documents detail embedding a set of magnets within the truck bed that could be used to create a magnetic field that would not only change the level of magnetic force applied but also be capable of rotating and moving relative to each other in order to create a magnetic field that encompasses the entire bed floor or just sections of it. Continue Reading @ MC&T

Ford has decided to launch a new pilot program alongside the Sonoma County Winegrowers, in a bid to send multiple Ford F-150 Lightning Pro pickups, E-Transit cargo vans and other Ford Pro Intelligence products to three farms in Northern California’s Sonoma County. The pilot program is launching with Bevill Vineyard Management and Vino Farms in Healdsburg, as well as the Dutton Ranch in Sebastopol, which together represent about 4,000 acres in Russian River Valley. By the way, that right there is the real Dutton Ranch (more of a namesake), as opposed to the one John Dutton runs on TV in the fictional world of Yellowstone. Continue Reading @ Autoevolution

A member of the Ford Lightning Facebook Group posted an email indicating their first day, first hour Lightning Reservation was pushed to model year 2023. Has anyone else received this email?