Ford plans an F-150 electric pickup in 2022. General Motors is retooling its Detroit-Hamtramck plant to start building an all-electric Chevrolet full-size pickup scheduled for production in 2025 and certain to spawn a counterpart for the GMC brand.Here are where the Detroit Three stand on electric pickups Currently, Lordstown Motors is rushing to retool its facility near Youngstown, Ohio, to build 30 pre-production Endurance pickups by December and start building 20,000 production models in 2021. Indeed, GM and Ford plans for electric pickups are further out. "We will be the first electric work truck and nobody will have that for years." "You don’t create need, there is a demand for this," Burns said. Burns said the Endurance will be first to the all-electric pickup market, thereby capturing a chunk of that gigantic segment. Last year, there were 2.5 million full-size pickups sold in the United States, according to Kelley Blue Book data. There is demand for an electric pickup, Burns said. After that, Burns expects to take pre-orders for all 20,000 pickups the automaker will build next year.įor now, Lordstown Motors is releasing new photo renderings of the truck to the Free Press. So Lordstown Motors will do a "virtual" reveal instead, likely in late June. Lordstown Motors had planned to reveal the Endurance at the Detroit Auto Show next month but the show was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. More: GM’s former plant in Lordstown will return to mass vehicle production, thousands of jobs 'A clear lane' “It’s a very difficult business to break into and it’s been dominated by names that have been here for a long time," Burns said in an interview with the Free Press. "But you don’t see anybody dedicated exclusively to light-duty all-electric trucks and we will be dedicated to it." 2 best-selling pickups in the nation, respectively. and General Motors, who both plan to offer all-electric pickups in the future and who currently sell the No. He plans to dominate the all-electric pickup market segment for years even though he is taking on big guns Ford Motor Co.
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