Have a look at Ford F150 Lightning! To retail in Oz at $250,000!...

Have a look at Ford F150 Lightning! To retail in Oz at $250,000! Very few Tradies will be able to afford this.

From news.com.au

Electric Ford F-150 goes on sale in Australia – for $250,000



Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen with the F150 Lightning. Picture: Twitter/X.

Federal Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen famously tweeted a picture of himself with the Lightning in the United States in 2022, taking a swipe at Coalition claims that there were no electric utes available.

At the time he said the F150 was “hugely popular” in America but “not currently available in Australia due to poor policies”.

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Ford took more than 200,000 orders for the Lightning in its first year of production, but they haven’t translated into sales. The company predicted it would produce 150,000 Lightnings a year, but last year sold just 24,165 out of more than 700,000 total F-150 sales. It has since cut production of the Lightning at its Michigan plant from 3200 a week to 1600 and redeployed staff to other parts of the business.

The company told investors earlier this year it had lost $US4.7 billion ($7.3 billion) on its electric vehicle business, despite the fact that the Lightning was the number one selling electric pick-up in the country.