Ford slashes F-150 Lightning costs via up to $10,000

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Ford slashes F-150 Lightning costs via up to ,000

The automaker mentioned retail shoppers who configure and series XLT, Lariat or Platinum fashions via their broker or on-line sooner than the tip of July will obtain an residue $1,000 bargain.

Consumers too can qualify for a $7,500 federal tax credit score, so long as they meet sure standards.

Ford CEO Jim Farley has in the past cautioned in opposition to value cuts, calling them a “worrying trend” that dangers commoditizing merchandise and angering shoppers.

“The more you cut the prices, when you cut them aggressively, the resale value for people who bought at higher prices is awful,” Farley mentioned in Might at a Wall Boulevard Magazine convention. “And those people never forget.”

Ford has additionally decreased the cost of its Mustang Mach-E crossover, even though Farley mentioned it was once based on Tesla’s Style Y cuts and that “there’s a limit to how far we’ll go.”

Ford mentioned the Rouge Electrical Car Heart, the Dearborn, Mich., plant the place the Lightning is constructed, is closed for a variety mission that may permit for an annual manufacturing run charge of 150,000 via the tip of the future. It was once no longer in an instant sunlit how lengthy the plant can be indisposed.

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