Sometime early next year, Ford will mail USB sticks to about 250,000 owners of vehicles with its advanced touchscreen control panel. The stick will contain a major upgrade to the software for that screen. With it, Ford is breaking from a history as old as the auto industry, one in which the technology in a car essentially stayed unchanged from assembly line to junk yard.
The F-150 Lightning Platinum Black trim might just be a goofy special edition, but its lofty price is antithetical to Ford's messaging. And it's not the only EV maker at fault.
The weekend-long electric car festival in New York allowed us to try – before we buy – our next EV from brands like BMW, Toyota, Ford, Volvo, and more.
The Ford Lightning electric truck might be teeming with tech, but at the end of the day, it's still an F-150 – and that's a good thing.
