Ford has announced its plans to reboot the F-150 Lightning into an EREV with a gas generator that could take it to a range of 700 miles.

Ford’s announcements today can’t be said to have come out of the blue. Rumors of the F-150’s demise have been circulating for more than a month, and last week SK On ended its joint venture with Ford that was building a pair of EV battery plants in Kentucky and Tennessee.

Ford Kills Its Electric Truck, Sort Of

The Ford F-150 Lightning’s future has been under a cloud since last month. Production stops, cooling EV demand in the US, and big losses in Ford’s EV division all pointed to trouble. Now it’s official: Ford will end production of the current all-electric Lightning this year.

Ford says it is "following the customer" in discontinuing its large electric pickup, which was well-received but never profitable. Ford will keep the Lightning name alive as a plug-in hybrid.

The electric Ford F-150 Lightning is dead, but the name will live on for

As Ford Motor Co. approaches first deliveries of its all electric F-150 Lightning this spring, it has shared new details regarding how future owners will soon be able to power their homes using the truck as a backup generator. Through a new partnership ...

This lightning generator is called MAGPIE, which stands for Mega Ampere Generator for Plasma Implosion Experiments. (Yep, I know what you’re thinking, us physicists are great at making acronyms). In essence, this basically means that MAGPIE can generate ...