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Meet the woman who got Ford's electric F-150 Lightning on the road

Meet the woman who got Ford's electric F-150 Lightning on the road

Meet the woman who got Ford's electric F-150 Lightning on the road
Jun 26, 2022 51 secs

The woman rising to that challenge for Ford is Linda Zhang, the chief engineer of Ford's electric version of the F-150 called the Lightning.

With a background in engineering, finance, manufacturing, and strategy at Ford, Zhang worked on the Ford Explorer and Escape SUVs before getting the call that Ford wanted her to push forward with an electric version of the hugely popular F-150.   .

But Zhang, who joined Ford 26 years ago on the company's graduate program, told Insider simply replacing the gas-powered model with an electric version wouldn't work.

Before getting to that point, Zhang first had to persuade Ford employees, many of whom she said were skeptical about the very idea of a plug-in F-150.

As well as slowly convincing drivers to go electric, Zhang said the plug-in F-150 is winning over a new generation of more environmentally conscious, and diverse, drivers. 

Its popularity will come as a relief to Ford following its $1 billion investment in the truck and hiring thousands of employees to get the vehicle into production

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