2024 Ford F-150 Lightning Flash indicators range-boosting warmth pump

The Ford F-150 Lightning Flash may sound like a specific mannequin of {the electrical} pickup that accelerates quicker or prices sooner. But it surely certainly’s merely a model new trim diploma of the Lightning lineup. 

The 2024 Ford F-150 Lightning Flash is pitched by Ford as a “tech-focused” proposition for patrons, and positioned between the XLT and Lariat trims, with the Platinum and Platinum Black variations on the prime. The Flash will get the larger 15.5-inch touchscreen infotainment system, and it consists of Bang & Olufsen sound, a wi-fi smartphone charger, and an enhanced entry system. 

The Flash, priced at $72,090 along with trip spot, is just supplied with the extended fluctuate battery pack, which brings as a lot as a 320-mile EPA fluctuate. 

It and fashions above it on the F-150 Lightning’s ladder of trims will for the first time get hold of a heat pump that potential gained’t improve the EPA fluctuate nonetheless may help householders get greater real-world fluctuate in chilly local weather and possibly value quicker. As Inexperienced Automotive Tales well-known in a winter drive of the F-150 Lightning earlier this 12 months, the fluctuate could possibly be decreased and charging situations elevated in subzero local weather. Nevertheless warmth pumps sometimes help with longer journeys significantly. 

It’s unclear whether or not or not Ford stays to be offering the XLT with a different of the same old fluctuate (240-mile) or extended fluctuate pack. For 2023, the XLT with the larger pack costs $71,990, for now.

The first two model years marked a whole lot of value volatility. Ford hiked the worth of the bottom F-150 Lightning Professional a variety of situations over its first 12 months on sale—lastly representing a markup of practically 50%. It then reduce the Lightning’s worth part of the best way during which, settling at $51,990, in July. 

For 2024, Ford has carried that value over, together with as a lot as $52,090 with the subsequent $2,095 trip spot cost; closing 12 months it was $1,995. Merely above the underside Skilled, the XLT with the same old fluctuate pack costs $59,590.

On the other aspect of the lineup, the top-trim Platinum Black now tops the $100,000 mark, at $100,090. 

The rest of the lineup will get a variety of further choices for 2024. Ford may also be together with the Towing Know-how bundle to the XLT and all variations above that throughout the model line. It consists of reverse steering and backup assist, a trailer brake controller and good hitch, along with the onboard scales attribute that helps you dimension up the load. 

2023 Ford F-150 Lightning

Ford says the 2024 Lightning fashions arrive in January 2024. Starting in spring 2024, Lightning householders may be allowed entry—via an adapter—to the Tesla Supercharger neighborhood, the automaker reiterated. Until deliveries of the Kia EV9 start late this 12 months, the Lightning moreover stays the one electrical car that gives a factory-approved reply for providing home-backup energy.