All new Ford EV truck coming in 2025

[jerhenderson]

As long as they don't mess with all the BUTTONS. Real trucks MUST have BUTTONS!

buttons are for the weak.

 

[Crissa]

I've never driven a truck with buttons on anything but the radio.

-Crissa

 

[JJ_Tex]

I find that feature awesome since the CT will be a mobile office when I wish to work by cliffs or beaches when the office thinks I am in my home office.

I think it is a great feature, especially for people who work out of their trucks and use it as their mobile office.

I don't work out of mine, but I did use it over Thanksgiving when I had to make a few video calls. The flat surface, convenient 120V outlet for my laptop, built-in wifi, and massaging seats made for a nice mobile office and sure beat hanging out with the inlaws inside the house

Back to my original point, features like that have been developed over time with the F150 and is a good selling point for the truck. If they only switch their EV Truck to a new and different platform they run the risk of their customer base staying away from this new truck and just sticking with the ICE F150 or moving to the CT if they are already going to have to move to something different for an EV Truck.

 

[Carlos Thomas]

Throwing some batteries on an existing platform is the quick/cheap way forward. Glad to see they are willing to think completely different.

 

[Deleted member 12457]

As long as they don't mess with all the BUTTONS. Real trucks MUST have BUTTONS!

I use only a couple of the buttons on my 2013 Tacoma along with the 4X4 dial selector. There are too many and most I'll never use. I got rid of the factory stereo, replacing it with an Alpine deck that has a couple buttons. The most used button is my door lock/unlock that's weared out. The more buttons the more chance of electrical problems. I'm all for a truck (any vehicle) that understands how I'm driving and on what surface and automatically makes the proper decision on how to reconfigure everything necessary to provide a safe and smooth drive. I shouldn't have to constantly push buttons and turn dials to make the truck work correctly. It should just work!

 

[CyberGus]

I've never driven a truck with buttons on anything but the radio.

-Crissa

Was this “truck” being pulled by a horse??!?

 

[Luke42]

Interesting. The F150 platform has years and years of refinement and is a well-designed, successful vehicle with a loyal customer base.

Why not just leave the F150 Lightning as your EV "engine" option? It seems like a strategic risk to move your EV Truck to a different platform. If the F150 owners want to move to a different platform, I would think they would just move to the CT.

I have this same question when it comes to commercial vans. The Chevrolet Express and (now discontinued) Ford Econoline vans certainly *look* like vehicles which should be on the GMT and F-series platforms -- but they're not.

AFIAK, the answer is twofold:

• The engineering required to put commercial vans on a pickup truck platform is pretty extensive and would require some changes to the cash-cow pickup truck platforms.
• The customers were happy with current design, and they kept buying it with minimal updates.

As a result, they could make a lot of money by running the same-old factory making the same-old vehicles with just tweaks to the emissions and safety systems to keep up with the times. When both pickup trucks and commercial vans are making money, why mess with success?

When those vans got extremely old, it was just easier to import European designs than it was to put these same vans on the F-series and GMT platforms -- even if the truck-van would have been a great vehicle.

The only exception is Nissan, which shares platform between the Titan and the NV vans.

Variations of these issues may be preventing the F-series and GMT platforms from being adapted to EVs. It might be hard to make a business cases for making any changes whatsoever to the existing cash-cow platform to support electrification, so they decided to separate the efforts. Also, change-anger from Ford employees who've made their career on the old-school F-150 could be an issue, too.

 

[fritter63]

I use only a couple of the buttons on my 2013 Tacoma along with the 4X4 dial selector. There are too many and most I'll never use. I got rid of the factory stereo, replacing it with an Alpine deck that has a couple buttons. The most used button is my door lock/unlock that's weared out. The more buttons the more chance of electrical problems. I'm all for a truck (any vehicle) that understands how I'm driving and on what surface and automatically makes the proper decision on how to reconfigure everything necessary to provide a safe and smooth drive. I shouldn't have to constantly push buttons and turn dials to make the truck work correctly. It should just work!

(pssst! The comment was a joke reference to another thread comparing F-150 and CT).

 

[Crissa]

Was this “truck” being pulled by a horse??!?

I am not that old. Oldest truck I've driven was a Ranchero, and it really wasn't a truck. More like a couch with cargo bed.

-Crissa

 

[Ogre]

The explosion of buttons didn’t happen until the 90s with the advent of multi-disc CD players!!!

 

[Ogre]

I wonder if there will be a good water tight way to wire my 100 CD changer into the frunk of the Cybertruck…

 

[fritter63]

I wonder if there will be a good water tight way to wire my 100 CD changer into the frunk of the Cybertruck…

C'mon man, upgrade to DVDs for music storage......

 

[GnarlyDudeLive]

I wonder if there will be a good water tight way to wire my 100 CD changer into the frunk of the Cybertruck…

Can't tell if this is sarcastic or not, lol. Personally I would just rip them all to a USB stick and be done with it and less prone to damage.

 

[Ogre]

Can't tell if this is sarcastic or not, lol. Personally I would just rip them all to a USB stick and be done with it and less prone to damage.

I’ll be you would frown on my Cybertruck with manual transmission idea too…

 

[Crissa]

Can't tell if this is sarcastic or not, lol. Personally I would just rip them all to a USB stick and be done with it and less prone to damage.

USB sticks have less overall lifetime

-Crissa