Thanks for that article. This statement from a Ford "spokesperson" caught my attention:   F-150 Lightning, America’s best-selling electric truck, and E-Transit continue to meet today’s customer needs   Yea, that's fine and dandy. But it's the duty of Ford's big shots to meet tomorrow's customers needs better than the competition. The "pivoting" nonsense that the big shots are using as an excuse for repeated delays of T3 product launch schedule is gettin' old.   Hopefully per what blazerdude20 mentioned, we'll see a refreshed F-150 Lightning in 2026 with features like built-in NACS port while Ford attempts to clean up the mess that is the T3 project.

It doesn't make sense to lose billons more by having an operational plant and a payroll to pay on top of it either. 

As an evolution, it would make sense to use GE2 parts but if there’s a way to use motors drives and controllers from CE1, Ford should do that.   cant wait to see Ford’s use of gigacastings….

He did the same when he saw the initial GE1 (Mustang Mach E) design ideas floated in 2017-2018 -ish (or earlier). Then put the industry on it's head by naming it Mustang Mach E....the purists went nuts, the car garnered a lot of attention....now, lets see if he can do that again with CE1. I personally like Mach E, but it is time to freshen it up, maybe slide CE1 under a refreshed version. 

in his defence, I also saw Farley’s concern regarding the styling of the CE1, he was hoping that people would accept it but wasn’t sure, that was about a year ago but can’t find the quote now…       The point being that Ford was trying to rewrite the efficiency records with CE1 and super efficient packaging means differnt proportions which affects styling. The moment they go to a shorter hood, the styling changes but then, we’ve now lived through the Cybertruck era so I’m optimistic that CE1s will be much better style wise but maybe embrace a the proportions on a smaller scale…

And the other shoe drops…   It looks like current Lightning is enough for now until interest grows enough for a next Gen BEV pickup and by the time that happens in 2028/2029 Ford will be way beyond whatever it designed in T3.   If EREV is the next big thing for full size pickups and SUVs, perhaps Ford will indeed reuse some of  T3 frame and architecture to make an efficient variation on the ICE F150 production facility at REVC?  

I'm not fond of the shorter hood look myself, but there is a relatively sizable portion of truck owners out there who want decent interior space, and a larger bed without increasing the overall size of the vehicle. So I could see something with a shorter hood appealing to them. Will it appeal to them enough to overlook a less conventional design and less frunk space? That remains to be seen. 

Who is asking for a shorter hood? Shorter hood = less useful frunk.    I’ll take a mega power frunk, thank you.   People don’t want a truck that looks like a dumpster. Elon proved that. 

I believe the issue is an EV truck can't be the best it can be if it's constrained by the limitations of having to share a platform with a gas truck. Like an EV truck would in theory have a shorter hood to give users more interior and bed space, but then you can't translate that over to an ICE truck because if the hood is too short, you won't be able to package the larger engines ICE truck owners want. 

Better yet, you can get a MME GT with Performance Upgrade that is roughly 0.5 second faster in the 1/4 mile for $8,400 less than what a Mustang Dark Horse goes for and is a whole lot more practical.