what exactly does this mean? Scout came out day one in Tennessee with harvester variant on the table
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I could be misremembering the timeline, but I was sure the Harvester wasn't part of the initial announcement and reveal, they only announced it after people begged for a hybrid/ICE model.
Just to confirm, I went back and checked the launch event
I have no dog in the hunt. I would be bummed too, someone will fill the void (hopefully Scout). It has to be hard to have competing factions within the 4 walls of a public company that is purely driven on unit sales. The pressures must be immense based on the market realities for Ford.
It is one of the more attractive things about Scout no ICE/EV factions tugging innovation $$$ away from $$$ going toward today's current unit sales. Yes, Scout pivoted to include EREV, but they are almost acting as an independent incubator at arms length from VW. I like to see them skating to where the puck is going. Not back on their heels.
Ford has said it will come out in 2027 (from this article "The skunkworks EV truck is not even due out until 2027."). Note: Ford is not calling it the Maverick EV, that is what I am calling it since they ave not released a name yet.
If they were "switching it to an EREV powertrain" you would be able to buy a 2026 model. So this is not just a change in powertrain, this is Ford planning a new truck to sell sometime in the future. Probably 5 years or more in the future. If they are not building F150 Lightnings for several years, how can you call it anything other than "cancelling"?
Because they're repeatedly referring to it as, "the next generation Lightning." Not a new truck, not a new nameplate, the next generation F-150 Lightning.
Scout was announced in 2022 as an off-road EV company, no mention of the EREV until the reveal in Oct 2024…so you’re not wrong…the EREV was a surprise at the reveal
That was not in any of the articles I read about the F150 Lightning. It seems they (and I) missed that bit int he Ford announcement. I stand corrected.
Even if they're referring to it as a next generation lightning, it doesn't make it feel any less like a product cancelation. If there will not be a full battery electric version going forward. Plus they're are shutting down production, the next gen F-150 won't require a full on shutting down for what might be a year or better
That's fair, but still we only know what Ford decides to release publicly, and unless any of us have access to their board room, we don't know why they decided to stop production so abruptly.
Ford was bleeding money on the Lightning = production stopped abruptly.
The 38 minute mark reveal of the Harvester is why myself and many others made a Scout reservation. I have zero interest in a full EV (I’m not convinced that the charging infrastructure is there, and I’m still not comfortable with range limits and range anxiety). The Harvester allows for everybody to enjoy the day to day EV conveniences, with the ability to also “gas and go” when needed.
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