Ford launched the new F-150 Lightning last week, and all new, all electric version of the best selling pickup in America. This new Pro version is aimed squarely at the commercial market, it’ll go on sale at the same time as the consumer version next year and Ford hasn’t added that much over the consumer version. The only big difference is the software, Ford has actually integrated its own commercial telematics software […]
Despite going up for pre-order around 48 hours ago, Ford has already had more than 44,500 pre-orders for the new all electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck, with each customer needing to put down $100. The truck comes in at $39,974 (£28,200), has 563bhp, will do between 230 and 300 miles on a charge and can even power your house during an outage. More than 44,500 reservations in less than 48 […]
This week, Ford revealed the anticipated all electric version of the F-150 pickup truck with the new F-150 Lightning. When it goes ons ale next year, it will take on the yet to be released Cybertruck from Tesla. Ford revealed the name for its all electric F-150 last week, taking the name Lightning from an old performance F-150 from the 90s. However, in this incarnation its in reference to the […]
Last week, Ford announced that it is planning on adding over the air software updates to its cars that support it, on the Mustang Mach E and new Bronco and as part of that, Alexa support will be added too. Obviously, people know Alexa from Amazon’s line of smart speakers and the Fire TV but in a car, it’ll be used to help the driver get information on traffic levels, […]
Ford has announced today that it will start offering over the air updates to some of its latest car models. Using a new service its calling “Power Up”, Ford will be able to administer software updates for the cars base firmware, infotainment and more all remotely. In the past, cars have had to be taken to a dealership for an update. Now, we all know remote software updates for cars […]
This week, Ford finally announced plans for its upcoming electric pickup truck, as well as the name. Ford is reusing the F-150 Lightning badge, which was used on SVT trucks from the 90s. Lightning is a good name for an electric truck from Ford and the new truck will be unveiled later this month on the 19th May. Making the F-150 electric is a major step for Ford, the other big […]
Starting this Wednesday, Ford will start taking orders for the new GT version of the Mustang Mach E all electric SUV. Orders in the US will start this week, whereas here in the UK and Europe Ford is still saying a release date of late 2021. The standard Mach-E has been on sale for a little while in the US and UK and customers have already started to receive cars, […]
A few days ago, Ford stopped selling its at home electric charger, which was launched for the Mustang Mach E electric SUV. Ford spoke to The Verge about the decision and its due to some of them not working correctly, where the box would stop working all together. Ford has decided to stop selling the charger until it can work out what is wrong. Ford has said that there are not […]
Ford has announced today that in March of next year, the Mondeo saloon and estate will be discontinued next year. No replacement for the UK and Europe market planned. In the last couple of years, sales of the Mondeo have dropped significantly with buyers drifting away from estate and saloon cars and into taller SUVs. Ford launched the iconic Mondeo back in 1993 with sales of the car hitting 86,500 […]
Ford is planning on launching a new all electric Transit Custom in 2023, which goes along with its promise to offer a fully electric version or plug in hybrid variant of every model in its commercial product line by the year 2024. To achieve this, both Volkswagen and Ford are partnering up and out of the deal, a fully electric Transit Custom and a fully electric Volkswagen Transporter will hit […]
