{"id":26459,"date":"2024-09-30T19:50:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T19:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34f61de3-4d31-44d6-89a3-2036ed46577612"},"modified":"2024-09-30T19:50:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T19:50:07","slug":"ford-throws-in-a-free-home-charger-and-installation-with-new-ev-purchases-and-leases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/ford-throws-in-a-free-home-charger-and-installation-with-new-ev-purchases-and-leases\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford throws in a free home charger and installation with new EV purchases and leases"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/ford-throws-in-a-free-home-charger-and-installation-with-new-ev-purchases-and-leases.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"waslinkname\">Ford<\/span> is looking to take some of the sting out of EV charging by offering a free home charger. The automaker will even send out a technician to install it at no cost to you if you buy or lease a retail Mustang Mach-E, F-150 Lightning or E-Transit between October 1 and January 2. However, Ford may opt to extend the program if it proves successful. (Ford Pro fleet customers will get a $2,000 commercial charging cash incentive instead.)<\/p>\n<p>According to <span class=\"waslinkname\">Joanna Stern<\/span> of <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em>, those who take up the offer will get a Level 2 charger at home. This should save Ford EV buyers and lessees a pretty penny, since the Ford Charge Station Pro costs $1,310 and the company typically charges $2,000 for installation. Still, those who want to take up the deal may need to make sure their garage is wired up properly to fully take advantage of Level 2 charging.<\/p>\n<p>The EV side of Ford&#8217;s business has been struggling as of late \u2014 the company expects that division to lose as much as $5.5 billion this year. In January, it <span class=\"waslinkname\">cut production of the F-150 Lightning<\/span> due to lower than expected demand and shifted resources to make more Broncos and Rangers. A few months later, the company delayed some EV models, including a planned three-row SUV, and <span class=\"waslinkname\">placed more focus on hybrids<\/span>. But in August, the automaker <span class=\"waslinkname\">killed<\/span> the three-row SUV project entirely while further delaying some other EVs.<\/p>\n<p>Incentivizing EV purchases and leases with a free home charger and installation is smart and it could pay off for Ford. However, it may turn out to be little more than a Band-Aid for the division&#8217;s deeper-set problems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 9\/30 2:53PM ET: <\/strong>The headline has been updated to reflect that the offer is available for all new EV purchases and leases in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ford is looking to take some of the sting out of EV charging by offering a free home charger. The automaker will even send out a technician to install it at no cost to you if you buy or lease a retail Mustang Mach-E, F-150 Lightning or E-Transit between October 1 and January 2. However, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-26459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","has-thumb","has-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26459"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=26459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}