Is this the all Electric Maverick EV??

[Mavster Mechanic]

Another technique is having s single wire do multiple purposes.

Did you know, you can send audio, aka speaker output over the 120 VAC wires in your home?

Before wireless speakers, this was a thing. Every outlet in your pre-wired home can double as a speaker connection - with proper speakers of course. You can unplug the speaker and plug in a vacuum.

Sending data and power in the same wire is common too.

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[Meeka]

Another technique is having s single wire do multiple purposes.

Did you know, you can send audio, aka speaker output over the 120 VAC wires in your home?

Before wireless speakers, this was a thing. Every outlet in your pre-wired home can double as a speaker connection - with proper speakers of course. You can unplug the speaker and plug in a vacuum.

Sending data and power in the same wire is common too.

My father did that years ago and amazed us all! I’m 68 now and thank God I don’t have to do it!

 

[MarcoG]

Made in the US, bigger than the Maverick, total EV.
For $30k - starting base model obviously.

What in the world must they have left off that model to hope for $30k in 2027?

What could be removed from the XL currently to get it back down to say $20k now?

Thats with a 50 something KwH battery good allegedly good for 150ish miles. There will be a 80ish KwH available. That has to cost 5ish more just based on battery costs today. That should be good for 300 plus. I have a Mav Lariat hybrid and an EV6 Gt-line BEV. The EV6 has 77 KwH and gets over 340 in town and full 300 plus at 70+mph on the road. Even at 300 miles for 35k base, that's damn great for a mid-size BEV truck.

 

[MarcoG]

Thats with a 50 something KwH battery good allegedly good for 150ish miles. There will be a 80ish KwH available. That has to cost 5ish more just based on battery costs today. That should be good for 300 plus. I have a Mav Lariat hybrid and an EV6 Gt-line BEV. The EV6 has 77 KwH and gets over 340 in town and full 300 plus at 70+mph on the road. Even at 300 miles for 35k base, that's damn great for a mid-size BEV truck.

Supposedly, there are so many combined panel and so many less parts with this new production line that the costs will come down just from that, as opposed to "removal".

 

[MarcoG]

You *do* understand that the Slate was advertised as $27,500 and then $20k after the federal $7500 EV incentive, right?

And you *do* understand that now that the $7500 will be going away, the new advertised price is "mid 20's".

You're able to understand why the price adjustment happened, right?

Price adjustment based on our great leader who doesn't want to subsidize environment friendly, medicaid for poor, or different lifestyle acceptance, lol.

 

[JohnCondren1933]

I don't have the source offhand but 2025 Maverick sales # so far blow the Ranger sales out of the water, it's the 2nd best selling midsize pickup in the US now...after the friggin Tacoma, no other midsize pickup comes close to those 2 for 2025

To add to the comment about make the Ranger an EV, because it's body on frame weight, it would get horrid range for a given battery pack size, compared to the lighter unibody Maverick EV.

Converting an existing body on frame truck to EV would be an engineering nightmare! You're constrained by the truck frame, you would likely want to engineer the truck frame clean sheet to encase packaging-engineered battery packs.

EV traction battery impact protection and extreme fire suppression requirements are not trivial, they add significantly to weight, which is why the "skateboard" EV design form-factor is being copied by everyone. Engineer the heavy-guage battery-pack steel case to be a structural member, the vehicle frame if you will, that everything else is bolted or welded onto.

 

[Escapologist]

This skateboard EV concept is really going to be something though. Imagine, just cruising along in your new truck and say "Ok Ford, do a kickflip."

 

[ScottyC]

....Converting an existing body on frame truck to EV would be an engineering nightmare!

**cough-cough** Lightning **cough-cough**

 

[JohnCondren1933]

"You'd think they'd go the EV SUV route as a first exhibit of this new big thing."

Lets think of why not:
Money Talks!

I am pretty sure that Ford sells more trucks, than SUVs, with F-series the best selling vehicle & Maverick now the 2nd best selling compact truck.

Ford projecting they will convert 30% of Escape buyers into SUV EV buyers is not big news, but if Ford can claim they will convert 30% of their truck buyers to truck EV buyers when they have the best selling full-size & 2nd best selling compact truck -- now the automotive media has a soundbite!!

yep - BYOB - bring your own battery

they're just going to be competing against their existing truck line - most are thrilled with their hybrids and the mileage, gas prices have stabilized, there's no 'big need' for a new EV truck regardless of their 'new and improved' technology - for the relatively small number who want they'll buy it but it will be competing with the mav and the ranger unless they intend to dump the Ranger altogether. You'd think they'd go the EV SUV route as a first exhibit of this new big thing.

 

[Deleted member 44642]

**cough-cough** Lightning **cough-cough**

Hilarious

 

[pigsareus]

"You'd think they'd go the EV SUV route as a first exhibit of this new big thing."

Lets think of why not:
Money Talks!

I am pretty sure that Ford sells more trucks, than SUVs, with F-series the best selling vehicle & Maverick now the 2nd best selling compact truck.

Ford projecting they will convert 30% of Escape buyers into SUV EV buyers is not big news, but if Ford can claim they will convert 30% of their truck buyers to truck EV buyers when they have the best selling full-size & 2nd best selling compact truck -- now the automotive media has a soundbite!!

an all electric Mav would be about another 8K$ due to the larger battery and associated technology - it's already strayed from it's entry point of about 22K now it's 30k and if the entry point for an EV mav is $40K then ...right...nobody is going to buy that.

 

[Kenv24]

an all electric Mav would be about another 8K$ due to the larger battery and associated technology - it's already strayed from it's entry point of about 22K now it's 30k and if the entry point for an EV mav is $40K then ...right...nobody is going to buy that.

Are you sure??? Down here in Texas I see $100,000 Super Duties fly off the shelf every single week. 40,000 K to some….is still a bargain.

 

[pigsareus]

Are you sure??? Down here in Texas I see $100,000 Super Duties fly off the shelf every single week. 40,000 K to some….is still a bargain.

$40K gets you at Base XL EV. Add some upgrades and it's $50K. What's the point in trying to be 'economical' with an EV when you're tossing another 8K at it? At the hybrid 40 mpg you can buy about 2000 gallons of gas at $4 bucks a gallon for that $8K - you can go 80,000 miles even if your EV charging is 100 percent FREE (which of course it isn't) before you would be 'saving' anything. In the end it comes down to...why the heck are you making such a choice, what's the point?

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