Ford’s $30,000 electric truck is due next year, and it promises something big. It will ride on a radically different platform and be built with a novel manufacturing process.
In a recent media briefing, Alan Clarke, Ford’s executive director of advanced vehicle development, shared how the company plans to make the truck more slippery with smart aerodynamics, while packing in cutting-edge tech like structural lithium-iron-phosphate batteries and a zonal electrical architecture.
All that would result in lower costs, higher efficiency and a truck that’s engineered like a software product from day one.
Here’s what else is happening today:
We review the new 2026 Toyota bZ Woodland.
Tesla has begun the production of its Cybercab.
Volvo said over 2.5 million cars will get a new user interface.
—Suvrat Kothari, Staff Writer
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