Ford Will Release A New Electric Pickup Truck!

Automobile giant Ford shared new information about the giant electric vehicle factory it plans to establish in the US state of Tennessee today. One of them is “Project T3It was a new electric pickup truck called ”.

Ford’s “BlueOval City” The new facility, which he named as The company says its new factory will house both a vehicle manufacturing and battery assembly facility. It goes without saying that the new pickup truck will be produced here.

The new pickup truck will arrive in 2025 and will have much higher range than the F-150 Lightning

Details about Project T3 are quite scarce for now. However, the incoming information is enough to get excited about the car. The new pickup truck, which will debut in 2025, will sit alongside vehicles such as the Mustang Mach-E, the F-150 Lightning and the recently introduced European-specific all-electric Ford Explorer.

The company’s current electric pick-up, the F-150 Lightning, has very similar features to its internal combustion sibling. However, it is stated that the new pickup truck can offer much different things in terms of both performance and design. Farley, Project T3 fully updatable and constantly changing He adds that it will be a model.

We can say that the range of the new pickup truck will increase significantly due to the improvement of efficiency. The F-150 Lightning offers a range of up to 514 kilometers on a single charge. In the new pickup truck, this number around 643 kilometers It is said to arrive.

New pickup truck will be able to drive itself while you sleep, according to Ford

CEO Jim Farley made Elon Musk-like statements in a statement to Bloomberg. Farley said the following about the autonomous driving technology that will be included in the new pickup truck, which he describes as a groundbreaking product:Driving on the road on a sunny day, your truck driving itself you can make calls, sleep or do whatever you want”

If this kind of system is really as it is said, it will offer much more advanced things than the BlueCruise driver assistant feature that Ford is currently using. BlueCruise allows you to take your hands off the wheel by offering things like steering, braking and acceleration. But drivers need to be ready to take back control and keep their eyes on the road.

Today, completely it is not possible to buy a self-driving vehicle. Although Elon Musk has said that such Teslas will come for years, the technology was still not ready. It was seen that the prototype currently offered to Tesla customers was still causing problems.

Ford wants to surpass Tesla in electric cars

Ford, which has successful electric cars such as the F-150 Lightning and Mustang Mach-E, has long been the world’s largest electric car manufacturer. Chasing Tesla. Experts predict it can do this by 2025 and surpass Musk’s company in sales. Let’s add that Ford is the second largest selling electric vehicle company in the USA in 2022.

Farley also said in his statements last year, “We plan to challenge Tesla and others to become the world’s largest electric vehicle manufacturer” had used the words. The new pickup truck is expected to assist the company in achieving this goal.

Ford is at the $5.6 billion BlueOval City factory, equipped with the latest technologies. 500,000 electric annually While aiming to produce pickup trucks, it wants to start production in the next 30 months. In addition, the company has recently started working to increase Mustang Mach-E production to 210,000 units by the end of 2023. On the other hand, the production of the F-150 Lightning was planned to be tripled to 150,000 by the end of this year.