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Kate Kozuch

I toured Ford’s EV development center to see how it plans to build a $30,000 truck — here's what surprised me most

3D printed model of Ford's $30,000 electric truck.

When I first heard Ford was working on a $30,000 electric truck in the wake of F-150 Lightning production coming to an end, my first question was simple: how?

How do you go from a truck that most people are looking at in the $70,000–$80,000 range and bring it down by nearly half? How do you do so without compromising EV performance? And how do you do it fast enough for people to care?

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