Registration knowledge exhibits the Tesla Cybertruck is now not the electrical pickup king.
The Ford F-150 Lightning overtook the angular EV within the first quarter of 2025.
The Tesla Cybertruck has misplaced the highest spot on the record of best-selling electrical pickup vehicles in the USA. After ending 2024 as a best-seller, Tesla’s solely pickup has fallen to second place within the first quarter of this 12 months.
After the primary three months, the Cybertruck had amassed 7,126 registrations. The Ford F-150 Lightning overtook it with 7,913 registrations, in response to the latest knowledge from S&P International Mobility. The Chevrolet Silverado EV completed the primary quarter in third place, adopted by the GMC Sierra EV, Rivian R1T and GMC Hummer EV.
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Tesla doesn’t break down automobile gross sales by particular person fashions, so registration knowledge is the one approach to examine gross sales numbers with the competitors.
In comparison with final 12 months’s first quarter, this 12 months’s numbers are an enormous enchancment for the Cybertruck. Nevertheless, that’s to be anticipated as a result of deliveries of Tesla’s pickup formally began in late November 2023, making Q1 of 2024 its first full quarter on sale. The Cybertruck had three quarters of accelerating gross sales, however the pattern stopped within the final quarter of final 12 months.
After this 12 months’s first three months, the stainless-steel truck formally recorded its second quarter in a row of declining gross sales. In Q3 2023, the Cybertruck bought 16,692 items, in response to Cox Automotive. Within the following quarter, the quantity fell to 12,991. In Q1 2025, the variety of registrations was 7,126, per S&P International Mobility. In response to Cox Automotive, the variety of Cybertrucks bought from January to March was even decrease: 6,404. Ford reported 7,187 gross sales of the F-150 Lightning in Q1.
Consequently, Ford’s electrical pickup, which debuted in 2022, has regained the title it misplaced final 12 months to the Cybertruck. That being stated, celebrations aren’t precisely welcome, seeing how even the best-selling EV truck within the U.S. has struggled to maneuver over 7,000 items in three months.
Carmakers guess their fortunes on what has historically been a really profitable section in America. The gas-powered F-150 has been among the many best-selling vehicles within the nation for many years, so providing a battery-powered one made sense. Nevertheless, gross sales figures present in any other case, and even Ford’s CEO, Jim Farley, admitted that for giant electrical vehicles and SUVs, “the economics are unresolvable.”
Attributable to their dimension, pickups want massive batteries to allow an honest driving vary, however massive batteries additionally make automobiles heavier. Plus, a pickup truck must be able to doing the whole lot. “These prospects have very demanding use circumstances for an electrical automobile,” Farley stated throughout Ford’s fourth-quarter 2024 earnings name. “They tow, they go off-road, they take lengthy highway journeys. These automobiles have worse aerodynamics and so they’re very heavy, which implies very giant and costly batteries.”
Ram lately delayed its upcoming all-electric 1500 REV and range-extended 1500 Ramcharger for a second time. Rivian’s deliveries in Q1 dropped year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter. In different phrases, it’s not trying good for electrical vehicles. In the meantime, EVs basically are doing fairly nicely with an general gross sales enhance of 11.4% in Q1 in comparison with the identical interval final 12 months.
