Ford might not be doomed after all. The American automaker has now finally announced that it is going to launch an all-electric version of its most important vehicle program: the F-Series pickup trucks. Last year, Ford announced plans to “bring 16 battery-electric vehicles to market by 2022” – starting with an all-electric CUV with 300 miles of range. But the automaker still remained more focused on hybrids than all-electric vehicles. Its more important vehicle program, the F150 pickup truck, was only supposed to get a hybrid powertrain by 2020 , but the landscape has since changed a lot. Rivian has unveiled what could be a really competitive all-electric pickup truck and Elon Musk has been heavily hyping an upcoming Tesla all-electric pickup . It made Ford’s hybrid pickup plan a little weak, but now the company is planning to have its own all-electric F-Series truck. Ford CEO Jim Hackett made the announcement at the Deutsche Bank Global Auto Industry Conference today: “We are going to electrifying the F-Series with battery electric and hybrid and we are doing the same for Transit. We launched a PHEV version of Transit and that will be on a journey of electrifying Transit globally.” […]
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