Yesterday, Ford brought down a very important bomb: the company builds a $ 30,000 electric pickup truck using a completely new manufacturing process in the assembly factory in Luisville in Kentucky. This truck is scheduled to arrive in 2027.
Ford promises that Beck AB will have a completely new battery technology, and although the company arranges it as medium medium, Ford later confirmed that it will get a mark similar to the current Marsh. Therefore, it will be very compressed.
However, there is already a single rival in mind: the subsidized Slate New Jeff Bezos truck. Although there is a lot of noise surrounding the small electric truck in the Slate, there is a reason for the belief that the built -in Pick Abb Ford can have a greater effect.
This is the reason.
Slate Simplicity Vs Ford job
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Before the Trump administration Federal EV incentives decreasedSlate promised a starting price of $ 20,000 to receive it. This has been changed since then to the “mid-twenties”-however, Slate is directly aimed at the market for beginners.
On the other hand, Beck App will not compete for a Ford with a list on the pricing front. Ford says it will start About 30,000 dollars And go up from there, which means it will be at least 5000 dollars more expensive than the cheapest list. The cheapest Ford Mobile, compared to a little more than $ 30,000 for 2025.
More importantly, Ford says that its electrical capacity will not be Abstract, Pick Abe Like Slate’s Truck, which contains circulating windows and there are no paint options outside the box. Note EV Doug Field:
“This will not be a vehicle in the old school abstract as a lower cost path.”
As you expected most Ford models, even the cheapest version of the new Beck App will have a set of equipment with the ability to add good breeders features from there. The company confirmed that it will even get Bluecruise, which is the technique of helping the driver without hands. Ford Ranger was recently received as an option for 2025.
Ford will maintain a large decrease in costs, through the new manufacturing process, which the company promised.40 percent faster“It is very efficient than the current preparation for the auto industry. Ford also promised that its new electrical truck – and future EVS using the same manufacturing process – will contain a fewer number Least In the long run).
Larger batteries ≠ Better
Ford Universal EV Platform
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As a compact truck, Ford electric capacity will have a expected small battery pack. But it may be smaller than you think.
Ford said that its truck will use a 15 percent smaller battery of the BYD Atto package, a Chinese intersection that contains 60.5 kilowatt hours of use capable. Fast mathematics indicates that the Ford battery will be about 51.0 kW an hour.
Surprisingly, 51.0 kW an hour will be smaller than Slit. The Slate Truck battery is a basic battery of 52.7 kilowatt hours and an optional battery of 84.3 kilowatts per hour, with 150 miles and 240 miles of the range, respectively. Our colleagues in INSIDEEVS ScrutinizeThis also rises dramatically on Exhinox Chevrolet (85.0 kWh) and other small EVS currently on the market.
Interestingly, Ford recounts the 400 -volt structure for its new truck in an era, as many car manufacturers are already moving to a more advanced 800 -volt structure. However, the American -built LFP battery is to be free of cobalt and nickel, which would help save space, reduce weight and maintain low costs.
One thing we do not know about the Ford electric truck is the range. If Ford wants to be able to compete, then a new capacity should be at least 150 miles (such as a Slate truck), with options for high -density battery packages with more scale. Jim Farley, CEO of Ford, consider that the electric truck of the auto industry will have capabilities from a vehicle to V2L leaders and capabilities from the car to the home (V2H).
Will the Ford truck will be successful?
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Although the specifications are not impressive immediately, Ford believes that the next electrical receipt will have a major impact. Unlike Slate, which mainly starts from the ground floor, at least for all pieces – trips, infrastructure, experiment, etc. – in a place to move its new truck outside the galleries at a very fast pace.
Mavrick is a good measurement stick. Although she started slowly in the first two years for sale, Ford sold more than 150,000 Mobile last year, and is already on its way to improve this number in 2025. During the first half of this year, Ford has already sold 85,000 cars receipt.
It was granted, there is still a lot that we do not know about capturing the upcoming electricity for Ford, and its desired (or no) in the company’s gas -running company. But if this new EV capture can pick up even a small part of these buyers, this may be a success.
