A new Tesla competitor appeared on the electric vehicle market. We are talking about Pickup Ford F-150 Lightning Pro for commercial customers. According to the Verge, the completion of a turn of 370 kilometers will cost $ 39,974. And the electrocar, which on one charge of the battery will be able to drive 482 kilometers, will cost 49,974 dollars.
on sale Pickup should appear in 2022. The main competitors of the car are called Tesla Cybertruck and GMC Hummer. Despite the fact that the sales of the electronics has not yet begun, the company has already received tens of thousands of orders.
As the CEO of Ford Motor said Jim Farli, for the first couple of days the manufacturer got more than 44 thousand orders.
In the next couple of years, several electric pickups will appear on the market, including Tesla Cybertruck, GMC Hummer EV and Rivian R1t. But almost none of them is designed specifically for commercial use. One of the few examples -Electric pickup developed by the Lordstown Motors startup. It is assumed that this truck will go into production at the end of this year, but it will cost about 52 thousand dollars.
As the founder of Tesla Ilon Mask, the development of the design of the Cybertruck electric pickup is completed. He is going to remove the electric car on the streets already this year. Pickup will be collected on the branded plant in Texas. The prototype of the pickup was shown in 2019. The car body is made of bulletproof steel, and the windows are made of heavy-duty glass and polymer composite.