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I checked mine last night and no updates since April 2025. Pretty much what I expected. While there I also checked my wife's Mach-e and it has had no updates since March of 2025.

How small the battery size needs to be really stands out here as well. The Lightning ER battery costs around $20k as best we can tell (if someone has a better number, Happy to update the math). If they can sell for $10k less, than the build price must be about that much cheaper, but you also...

21 Mach-e and 22 Lightning here. The Ford Options loan just matured on the Mach-e, but we are keeping it and rolling it over (get to keep the 1.4% interest rate) because it has been a great car and my wife likes it. As for my Lightning, I am not sure what I am going to do - I had planned to...

Eh - I can respect the invention of the assembly line, but given Henry Ford's Nazi-like philosophies and friendship with Hitler, I would be happy if nobody thought like that anymore.

Now this I would totally support!

From what was shown, this was for the phone app, not the truck.

First - I highly doubt that claim. Second, I can't see myself EVER using something like this.

That depends on what size battery they put in the EREV. I am guessing it will be on the smaller side to keep costs down, but no one really knows. If the battery is sub 50kwh, that would be a pretty bad EV.

I strongly suspect we have seen the last of any updates for the Lightnings of all model years unless something is required by law. Why would Ford spend any money on something that won't and can't return the investment. It's not like we can come back and buy another one!

Sorry - have to disagree, we have taken unplanned weekend road trips many times. That said, it is likely location dependent. The Northeast is pretty good for charging infrastructure.

Much, much, much smaller battery

The Taycan's are VERY nice, but take a look at the used prices on the Audi E-tron GT (same car, different body), I couldn't believe how cheap they were!

That was fantastic - thank you for sharing!

Smaller battery should offset the added weight of the ICE components, so I wouldn't worry too much on that.

Ford already fits a 3.5L twin turbo ecoboost or a 5.0L V8 under the hood. Remove the frunk to go back to a standard setup in the front of the truck and put the generator bit in the transmission tunnel and everything fits nice and neat. Shrinking the battery pack would also free up some room.

Yeah, I don't know how the math works unless they drop to a much smaller battery pack (40-60 kwh LFP? - maybe the base Mach-e pack?). With the smaller pack, I don't see how a naturally aspirated V6 engine put out enough juice to keep it charged while delivering enough power. I also have to...

And that is assuming it even comes with a DC fast charging option. It could be limited to L2 charging to keep costs down.

I have been looking at a few different options on exactly this. Do I dump it now before the resale values completely collapse and spare parts are still available? Unfortunately I am still ~$7k upside down on my loan which is a LOT of negative equity to refinance. Do I hold for another year...

Or maybe they just put a ~10kwh battery in it to call it an EREV and effectively run off of the engine.

Why are you assuming such a HUGE battery for the EREV? Ford is making this change to bring down the cost of manufacturing so they can make a profit on each sale. The only way to do that while adding an ICE engine is to substantially shrink the battery. Likely something in the 40kwh to 60kwh...