Ford is ditching its fully electric pickup trucks and adding gas generators to its EVs, giving former President Joe Biden’s failed green energy buildout yet another kick in the scrotum.
On Monday, Ford announced it had ended its production of the all-electric F-150 Lightning. Ford is now introducing an “extended range electric vehicle” variant of the F-150 Lightning, which features a gasoline-powered generator capable of extending the truck’s battery range by 700 miles, according to a report. The release date for the new vehicle remains unknown.
“Rather than spending billions more on large EVs that now have no path to profitability, we are allocating that money into higher returning areas, more trucks and van hybrids, extended range electric vehicles, affordable EVs and entirely new opportunities like energy storage,” Ford president Andrew Frick recently told reporters.
In 2021, noted “car guy” President Biden “drove” a new F-150 Lightning at the Ford Dearborn Development Center in Dearborn, Michigan. He remarked, “This sucker’s quick.”