# Ford ends the battery-only F-150 Lightning and announces a range-extended successor with 700+ miles

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Date: 15 Dec 2025
About: [Ford Motor Company](https://technooptimist.io/companies/ford.md) · [F-150 Lightning EREV](https://technooptimist.io/vehicles/f-150-lightning-erev.md)
Original source: https://www.fromtheroad.ford.com/us/en/articles/2025/next-gen-f-150-lightning-extended-range-electric-vehicle

Ford said the next-generation F-150 Lightning will be an extended-range electric vehicle: electric motors drive the wheels and a high-power generator supplies extra range, for an estimated 700+ miles. Production of the current battery-only Lightning ends this year, and the new truck will be built at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn. Launch timing and details will come later.

## Key facts

- Estimated range above 700 miles with the generator
- Keeps exportable power for work sites, campsites and homes in outages
- Assembled at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center, Dearborn, Michigan
- Doug Field, Ford's chief EV, digital and design officer, said it 'tows like a locomotive'

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