Ford’s Electric F-150 May Be the Latest Casualty of the Fake EV Economy
Another one bites the dust.
Ford is reportedly considering killing off the electric F-150 Lightning, the truck once hyped as a “smartphone that can tow” and hailed by the Biden administration as proof that America’s “green transition” was inevitable. Now it’s just another casualty in the long list of taxpayer-funded energy fantasies that couldn’t survive contact with reality.
After $13 billion in EV losses since 2023, Ford is finally facing the truth every energy worker already knew: electric vehicles don’t work without government subsidies.
When Ford launched the Lightning, executives promised a pickup that could haul like an F-150, drive hundreds of miles on a charge, and even power your home. The media fawned, Biden took one for a spin, and Wall Street poured billions into the illusion. But the second the $7,500 federal credit expired on September 30, EV sales cratered, Ford’s EV sales dropped 24% in a single month.
That’s not “innovation.” That’s artificial demand.
Without taxpayer handouts, the EV market collapses under its own weight.
Dealers are already admitting what Ford won’t: “The demand is just not there,” one Ford dealer told The Wall Street Journal. Truck buyers know better than to gamble $80,000 on a vehicle that can’t handle a full workday, loses half its range in cold weather, and takes hours to “refuel.”
When the hype faded, so did the sales. In October, Ford sold just 1,500 Lightnings nationwide, fewer than any other model. Meanwhile, Americans bought 66,000 gas-powered F-Series trucks.
That’s the real consumer choice, not the one engineered in Washington with your tax dollars.
Electric trucks were supposed to prove EVs could compete in the toughest market segment on Earth. Instead, they’ve exposed the dirty secret behind the “green revolution”: this industry cannot stand on its own two wheels.
It only survives when bureaucrats pick winners, taxpayers foot the bill, and politicians pretend they’ve reinvented the wheel.
Ford isn’t alone. GM has lost billions on its electric Silverado and just idled the Detroit factory that made them. Ram canceled its electric pickup before it even launched. Even Tesla’s Cybertruck, the supposed future of EVs, has tanked.
These companies bet on subsidies, not science. They built a business model on government dependency, not market demand.
Now the bill has come due.
As Ford scrambles to build smaller, “cheaper” EVs to chase Chinese competitors, America should take note: the electric dream was never about consumer choice or environmental progress. It was about corporate welfare disguised as climate policy.
The Power The Future Energy Affordability Report proved it earlier this year: green mandates drive up costs, crush reliability, and hurt working families. EVs are no different. They’re just another product of the same political machine that thinks Washington can legislate its way to innovation.
The F-150 Lightning was supposed to be the Model T of the clean-energy age. Instead, it’s the Edsel, a monument to government-manufactured hype and taxpayer waste.
The market has spoken. The EV bubble is bursting. And for once, it’s not on the backs of working Americans.
November 7, 2025