Most Ford F-150 Lightning Customers Came From Retail In 2025
By Brett Foote
February 13, 2026 10:49 am
The Ford F-150 Lightning debuted to much fanfare for the 2022 model year, which was to be expected for the first all-electric version of America's favorite pickup. It launched in both a...
Ford CEO Jim Farley Outlines Where EREV Tech Makes Sense
By Brett Foote
February 12, 2026 12:02 pm
Extended range electric vehicles (EREVs) are a pretty new concept in the automotive world, combining large battery packs with electric motors and gas generators that serve one purpose - to feed...
Ford Energy Trademark Filing Will Not Cause Earthquakes
By Brett Foote
January 29, 2026 9:07 am
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Ford Motor Company has filed to trademark Ford Energy with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Ford Authority has learned.
Filed on January 27th, 2026, under serial number...
Ford F-150 Lightning EREV A ‘Smart Move,’ Says Dealer Chairman
By Brett Foote
January 28, 2026 9:52 am
Last month, The Blue Oval announced that it was discontinuing the Ford F-150 Lightning - at least, in the existing all-electric guise as we know it. The Lighting will return at some point...
Ford EV Asset Write Offs Total $19 Billion Through 2027
By Brett Foote
January 12, 2026 10:22 am
Last month, Ford announced a major strategic shift that involves the cancelation of its second-generation all-electric models, with more of a focus on hybrids, extended range electric vehicles...
Future Ford Vehicles Could Coordinate Torque With Electric Trailers
By Brett Foote
January 2, 2026 1:31 pm
Ford Motor Company has filed a patent for an electric trailer coordinated control system that may be used in future Ford vehicles, Ford Authority has learned.
The patent was filed on...
Most Ford F-150 Lightning Sales Came From First-Time Blue Oval Buyers
By Brett Foote December 29, 2025 11:12 am
As Ford Authority previously reported, the all-electric Ford F-150 Lightning will exit production this year, eventually replaced by a new version with an extended range electric...
Direct links to recall documents:
https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2025/RCLRPT-25V863-7819.pdf
https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2025/RCAK-25V863-3736.pdf
NHTSA Recall No.: 25V863
Manufacturer Recall No.: 25C69
Vehicle Rollaway Risk/FMVSS 114
A loss of park function can allow the vehicle to...
Four Rivian electric vehicles burned overnight at a dealership in Franklin, Tennessee — all starting from a single truck that was plugged in and charging at 1:20 a.m. The fire spread fast, pushed into the service bay, and crews spent hours cooling the battery packs. One firefighter was injured...
Ford And GM Use Clever Workaround To Extend Federal EV Tax Credit
By Brett Foote September 30, 2025 9:21 am
As Ford Authority reported this past summer, the passage of a new budget bill means that the federal EV tax credit will expire after today, September 30th, 2025, which has resulted in...
I happened to notice this morning that my 2022 Lightning Lariat ER has failed to connect to my home network, according to my Xfinity reports, it was last able to connect on 8/18/2025 which is a few days after my most recent OTA, so I can't blame it for the outage.
I've checked the...
Assuming you many of you earlier deliveries have received this survey, I just received my survey this afternoon, I picked up my F150 Lightning Lariat ER on 8/4/2022.
I gave them my opinions about the truck and how they can improve it as well as the support services to make driving an EV better...
Brian Lohnes
What if some of the nation's greatest hot rodders were given the job of creating a promotional vehicle to sell car batteries in 1968? What would they do? What would they design? Who would be involved? Well, as it turns out, this actually happened and the result was one of the most...
By Brett Foote July 7, 2025 9:31 am
Ford Motor Company is recalling select 2025 Ford F-150 Lightning pickups over a potential brake fluid leak.
The defect: in affected vehicles, the front brake jounce hose bracket screws may loosen and detach, which can allow the jounce hose to contact the...
Ford Authority By Brett Foote July 7, 2025 12:19 pm
Following the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022, a number of all-electric and hybrid vehicles became eligible for the new, $7,500 federal EV tax credit, and in some cases, half that amount, depending on certain factors...