Ford’s F-150 Lightning performance one-off is for extreme off-roading
by Andrew J. Hawkins from The Verge - All Posts on (#6HY3N)
Image: Ford Most electric vehicles are built for the prim streets and highways of cities, never to sully their tires in anything dirtier than a mud puddle. And then there are the EVs that like to gobble gravel, take flight over a dirt ramp, or generally wallow in the mud. Ford's new one-off electric truck, the F-150 Lightning Switchgear, falls firmly in that latter category of plug-in vehicle.
A year ago, Ford teased a high-performance demonstrator based on its F-150 Lightning, with the company's CEO Jim Farley tweeting a photo of himself pulling back the cover to show a portion of the truck's front end.
Now the company is finally ready to pull back the entire cover. The F-150 Lightning Switchgear is a high-riding, high-performance, all-electric...