Ford has revealed it will launch its electric versions of the F-150 and Transit by mid-2022.
Although the car manufacturer has been developing the electric F-150 and Transit for quite some time, it has remained tight-lipped as to when the vehicles would actually hit the market. However, Ford chief operating officer Jim Farley provided the rough timeline while speaking during CNBC’s ‘Squawk on the Street’ show on Wednesday.
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“We are No. 1 in the pickup and the van market in Western Europe and the U.S., and this is our chance,” Farley added in the interview. “We are electrifying and we’re a brand people trust.”
Ford provided the world with a preview of its forthcoming electric F-150 in July last year when it showed a prototype towing a train weighing no less than 1.25 million pounds (567 tons). Whereas that prototype was based on the outgoing F-150, the production-spec model will instead be a variant of the next-generation F-150 that is scheduled in for a premiere on June 25.
Patents that surfaced online in December 2019 showing how the pickup may use four electric motors.
While it remains to be seen if the electric F-150 or the electric version of the Transit will launch first, Ford did confirm in early March its electric Transit would launch in the United States and Canada in 2021 as a 2022 model year vehicle, indicating that it could land before the electric F-150. However, that announcement was made before the coronavirus pandemic really hit the United States so plans may have changed in the three months since.
