implications for the climate and lots of other stuff. but now look at this, just as we have been talking about tonight, just as the congress is tying itself up in knots over whether or not to pass president biden s big build back better bill with all of the infrastructure for electric charging stations and the credits for electric vehicles, and all of the rest, look at what was just announced tonight, tonight ford just announced that they are hiring 11,000 new employees 11,000 new jobs. they are building a huge new electric vehicle manufacturing plant in tennessee, plus three new electric vehicle battery factories in tennessee and kentucky $11 billion in new facilities for electric vehicle manufacturing in the united states did i mention this is 11,000 new jobs where is this coming from? well, the electric f 150 pickup truck i was mentioning that has the amazing towing capacity and all the rest of it, the demand for that is turning out to be so
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1. Start with the price how could you not? The Ford F-150 Lightning, the new electric version of the ur–American pickup truck, will go on sale next spring for $39,974. Because Ford vehicles still qualify for the federal EV tax credit, most Americans will pay a little less than $32,500 for this truck.
Thirty-two grand after subsidies an astonishing price. For years, climate-concerned transportation experts have sought to make electric vehicles cost the same or less than their internal-combustion cousins. The F-150 Lightning is nearly there. In January, the average new car purchase in the United States crossed the $40,000 mark; the Lightning is well below that bar, and inhabits the same neighborhood as Toyota’s RAV4 Hybrid, Jeep’s Gladiator pickup, and the Honda Odyssey. After subsidies, the electric F-150 is only about $4,000 more than its gas-burning twin. The entry-level electric model claims 563 horsepower and a respectable 230 miles of range, and it immedi