Ford Motor Co. will cease production of the all-electric F-150 Lightning pickup by the end of 2025 less than four years after its launch. At the same time, the company announced in a Dec 15. statement that the second generation of the F-150 Lightning will come with a gasoline range-extender powertrain.

Ford says the next generation of the F-150 Lightning pickup truck will transition to a range-extended EV powertrain.

The end of the best-selling electric pickup truck is here: Ford is pulling the plug on the F-150 Lightning by the end of the year. It’s not dead dead, but the next version of the Lightning will be an extended range electric vehicle, known as an EREV. Ford is positioning it as the “next-generation.”

Four years after Ford bravely electrified its best-selling vehicle, the F-150 Lightning pickup, it seemed ready to drop the model owing to slowing demand. Now, it turns out the company's got other plans.

The purely electric pickup Ford F150 Lightning is retired, the electric van isn't coming at all. Instead, series hybrids are coming.

The automaker is ending production of its electric pickup while planning a series-hybrid F-150 and a new low-cost EV platform. “The company is shifting to higher-return opportunities,” Ford says.