Ford has promised thrilling new electrical automobiles within the subsequent few years, so it’s not shocking to see the automaker submitting for patents and emblems to cowl its improvements. There was the multi-EV charging system patent utility from a few weeks in the past, however the newest patent is way extra thrilling. The eager eyes on the seventh Mustang discussion board observed, and InsideEVs subsequently reported, that Ford utilized to trademark “F-200,” which might be the automaker’s previously-teased T3 electrical pickup.
CEO Jim Farley has touted the truck’s futuristic attraction on multiple event, as soon as calling it a “Millennium Falcon with a porch hooked up.” Farley promised that Ford would take a novel strategy to designing and constructing the truck, saying that the corporate needs to construct a pickup that thrives in in the present day’s digital age. He additionally famous that Ford would repeatedly replace the truck to refine and add options and capabilities.
Venture T3, also referred to as “Belief the Truck,” will provide extra strong vehicle-to-load (V2L) tech than the Ford F-150 Lightning, which already has an onboard generator with a number of retailers. We don’t understand how Ford will place the pickup in its lineup, however some have speculated that it might slot in beneath the F-150 Lightning as a midsize truck just like the Ranger in measurement.
In fact, the trademark utility doesn’t reveal any element on Ford’s intentions with the F-200 title apart from to guard it from others utilizing it. The appliance kind states that it covers “motor automobiles, particularly gasoline and electrical vehicles, pickup vans, sport utility automobiles, and their structural elements,” so it’s technically potential (although unlikely) that we might be speaking a few new fuel pickup.
Ford is predicted to unveil the mysterious new truck in 2024 and construct it at its new electrical car manufacturing facility, BlueOval Metropolis, in Tennessee. The automaker has struggled to maintain tempo with demand for its F-150 Lightning however lately introduced that it could triple manufacturing of the electrical pickup this fall, giving it a 150,000-unit annual capability. On the similar time, some have raised considerations about flagging shopper demand, however Ford pointed to an enormous enhance in curiosity after it minimize Lightning costs in July. Even so, the automaker has loads of work left to do, because it reported a $1.1 billion loss on its EV enterprise final yr.
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