Last year, the Cybertruck spiraled into market irrelevance while the rest of the EV market found its footing, as the pickup experienced the single biggest sales collapse of any electric vehicle in the United States. Elon Musk's flailing company managed to move only an estimated 20,237 Cybertrucks in 2025. And that's counting the units that Musk reportedly bought for himself through SpaceX and xAI to avoid further ridicule.
True, Ford's Model E electric vehicle program has been a huge money loser. That's in part because of how these EVs were made. Ford claims a whopping $19 billion in losses just to retrench from its former EV plans. The Lightning may be a top-selling EV pickup truck, but sales have been significantly lower than projected, while the truck itself never really got down to the original $40,000 base price promised when it was announced.
Ford says the STX is the result of customers' constant requests for more driving range and comfort features on the entry-level model. And I think the American auto giant delivered in a big way. With the same 123-kilowatt-hour Extended Range battery pack as the Flash fitted as standard, the 2026 F-150 Lightning STX has a targeted EPA-estimated driving range of 290 miles on a full charge-up from the 240 miles of the now-discontinued XLT model, which had a smaller, 98-kWh battery pack.
