Lincoln Teases Concept That Previews Its First Production EV

Lincoln showed a brief teaser video for an upcoming electric concept car.The video shows very little, but we spotted a sloping roofline and possibly a Lidar sensor mounted on the roof. Lincoln’s first electric vehicle could debut before the end of the year and go on sale for the 2023 model year.

Lincoln first detailed its plans for electric vehicles last year, and the company is now teasing an electric concept car that will debut on April 20. This “serves as inspiration” for Lincoln’s upcoming EVs and will likely be a preview of its first electric model, an electric SUV that’s set to debut sometime later this year in production form.

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The teaser video doesn’t show much, starting with an illuminated Lincoln badge before drawing a wheel arch, hood line, and a sloping roofline in white. There also appears to be a small protrusion on the front of the roof that could be a Lidar sensor like on the new Lotus Eletre. Lincoln also recently released some sketches of the interiors of Lincoln’s EVs, although the sketches simply show a general design direction and do not directly correspond to the upcoming concept.

Lincoln first electric vehicle was originally planned as a collaboration with startup Rivian—which Ford owns a 12 percent stake in—that would have seen Lincoln utilize the chassis and powertrain of the R1S SUV, but that plan was scrapped in 2020. It now seems more likely that Lincoln’s first EV will share components with the Mustang Mach-E, although we don’t know just how similar the crossovers will be. The first production Lincoln EV could rear its head by the end of this year and go on sale for the 2023 model year, when it will do battle with the Cadillac Lyriq, which recently began production, and the Audi e-tron, Tesla Model X, BMW iX, and Jaguar I-Pace.

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