{"id":122685,"date":"2021-05-18T11:22:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T18:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/ford-f-150-lightning-what-to-expect-from-the-automakers-first-electric-pickup-truck"},"modified":"2021-05-18T11:22:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T18:22:36","slug":"ford-f-150-lightning-what-to-expect-from-the-automakers-first-electric-pickup-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/ford-f-150-lightning-what-to-expect-from-the-automakers-first-electric-pickup-truck","title":{"rendered":"Ford F-150 Lightning: what to expect from the automaker\u2019s first electric pickup truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3iS5f716oYQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what we already know about Ford\u2019s electric F-150.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Ford is set to unveil its next major electric vehicle, the F-150 Lightning, at 9:30PM ET on Wednesday, May 19th. But this isn\u2019t just another EV event. An electric version of the automaker\u2019s iconic F-series pickup truck is a very big deal for Ford, for the auto world, for car buyers, and even for the US economy.<\/p>\n<p>Ford is very proud of its F-series trucks, and for good reason. It\u2019s the bestselling truck in the US for 44 years. It\u2019s also the bestselling vehicle in the country, period. <a href=\"https:\/\/go.redirectingat.com?id=66960X1514734&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.edmunds.com%2Fmost-popular-cars%2F&referrer=theverge.com&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theverge.com%2F2021%2F5%2F18%2F22441793%2Fford-f150-lightning-announcement-rumors-specs-details\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" has-subtag=\"true\">According to Edmunds<\/a>, F-series trucks are the most popular vehicle in 30 out of 50 states in the US.<\/p>\n<p>That means the F-Series trucks is central to Ford\u2019s profitability. The Detroit automaker raked in around $42 billion in revenue in 2019 from nearly 900000 F-series truck sales in the US, according to a Boston Consulting Group study commissioned by Ford \u2014 more than most major companies and about four times as much as Tesla made in all of 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s what we already know about Ford\u2019s electric F-150. Ford is set to unveil its next major electric vehicle, the F-150 Lightning, at 9:30PM ET on Wednesday, May 19th. But this isn\u2019t just another EV event. An electric version of the automaker\u2019s iconic F-series pickup truck is a very big deal for Ford, for the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,39,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-economics","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}