“Project T3” is Ford’s next-generation electric truck.
won’t come online until 2025, but when it does, Ford has said it will be a “mega campus” that houses a vehicle-production facility for Ford’s F-series pickup trucks and a battery assembly division. Now, the company says it will also serve as the main production line for its next electric truck.Europe-only Ford Explorer
, as well as the automaker’s Mustang Mach-E, F-150 Lightning, and E-Transit van, as Ford’s family of electric vehicles begins to fill out by the mid-point of the decade. “Project T3 is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to revolutionize America’s truck,” Ford CEO and president Jim Farley said in . “We are melding 100 years of Ford truck know-how with world-class electric vehicle, software and aerodynamics talent. It will be a platform for endless innovation and capability.”While the F-150 Lightning is nearly identical to its namesake, the gas-powered F-150, the new truck is expected to be more of a departure for Ford, both with regard to design and performance. Specifically, there will be “active and deployable aero,” according to comments made by Farley in a 2022 podcast interview.
“PJ O’Rourke once described American pickups as ‘a back porch with an engine attached.’ Well, this new truck is going to be like the Millennium Falcon — with a back porch attached,” Farley said in a press release this week.Ford plans to build 500,000 electric trucks a year at the BlueOval City complex, with production set to kick off within “30 months,” according to Farley. The company recently
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