HaulingAss
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F-150 Lightning is not available for purchase either. You can't even submit a pre-order! Saying Ford is shipping them or that is a differentiator simply because Ford has made and sold a measly 13K electric trucks is dubious, and more so when you consider the N. American pickup market is 3 million per year. That's only 0.04% of annual sales, it's meaningless.Ford had a concept vehicle in 2008. It was never scheduled for delivery.
The Ford is arguably the best shipping electric truck for professionals. Comparing it to obsolete tech is silly.
You are essentially holding it to a standard which does not exist and won’t be available for Some time.
If someone had the choice between a Lightning and a Cybertruck it would be a different conversation. But they don’t.
And I'm not pointing out the original F-150 prototype is archaic, so was the state of development of the Model S development platform in 2008. I'm saying the current Lighting is archaic tech because they wasted a decade by not working on it while Tesla was busy bringing millions of EV's with increasingly better EV technology to market as time progressed. It's called learning and development. Ford just sat on their asses- and it's evident in the state of technology they released in the Lightning they finally rushed to market to be able to claim "first". Even then, little ol' Rivian beat them to market because Rivian has been working on improving EV technology since 2009.
The 2012 Tesla Model S was more advanced than the 2022 Lightning, a decade later. It's shameful, but Ford wanted to sell more gas trucks and didn't care to develop a competing solution until they were forced to by Tesla. What's silly is calling the Lightning "the best shipping truck for professionals" when you can't even pre-order one. 13,000 units in 12 months is insignificant. Tesla's oldest, least efficient factory in California, the one abandoned by GM and Toyota, makes more cars than that, every single day!
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