It accelerates with serious force and rides better than any F-150 before it. With the Lightning, the age of credible EV trucks and their quiet power has officially arrived.Īfter a few days spent in an F-150 Lightning Lariat, rented from Ford, we came away impressed. With its prodigious power, swift acceleration, and strong towing capacity, and the added benefit of sipping electrons rather than gasoline, the F-150 Lightning is a truck for a new, greener era.

I left Erik and his “oil-burner” behind in the dust as I rocketed away. of torque from the Lightning’s dual electric motors unleashed all at once. So I raised my window back up, stomped hard on the throttle pedal, and felt the thrilling rush of the 775 lb.-ft. We rolled down our windows to talk, but I couldn’t hear a word he was saying over the clatter from his truck’s big diesel engine.

I pulled the all-electric Ford F-150 Lightning up next to my CR colleague Erik, who was idling in his heavy-duty pickup. It was like a meeting of the old and the new, of yesterday and tomorrow. Read the complete Ford F-150 Lightning road test. Update: Since this first drive was originally published in August, 2022, we finished testing the Ford F-150 Lightning.

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