Towing more than one million pounds is an incredible achievement for a full-size pickup truck, but this F-150 doesn’t feature a diesel nor a large-displacement engine with tons of torque. It’s an all-electric prototype that looks like the series-production model, and Ford assured prospective customers that “it’s coming.”
To demonstrate the prowess of the F-150 Electric, the Ford Motor Company loaded up 10 double-decker rail cars with no fewer than 42 examples of the F-150 for the 2019 model year. Chief engineer Linda Zhang is behind the steering wheel, and as you can tell, the prototype doesn’t even break a sweat while towing more than a million pounds’ worth of half-siblings.
We’ve known for quite some time the F-150 will be available as a hybrid, packing a built-in generator to boot. But now that Ford has access to the know-how of Rivian while Tesla prepares to roll out an electric pickup truck of its own, the Blue Oval decided to go all-electric with the F-150 as well. It’s hard to say which of these three will win in a game of Top Trumps, more so if you remember that General Motors wants a piece of the pie too.
The F-150 Electric will join “the all-new F-150 Hybrid that goes on sale next year,” and according to Ford, “both electrified models will have the toughness, capability, and innovation that F-150 customers have come to expect.” The carparazzi caught the F-150 Electric in the wild earlier this year, featuring a big battery sandwiched underneath the cabin.
As for the charging port, Ford decided to integrate it into the front bumper for easier access. Jim Farley, president of global markets, also confirmed the F-150 Electric is coming but nobody actually knows when the real deal will be revealed in the flesh. At the earliest, we expect the most capable F-150 yet to arrive late in 2020 for the 2021 model year. The other possibility would be the 2021 North American International Auto Show in Detroit.
To demonstrate the prowess of the F-150 Electric, the Ford Motor Company loaded up 10 double-decker rail cars with no fewer than 42 examples of the F-150 for the 2019 model year. Chief engineer Linda Zhang is behind the steering wheel, and as you can tell, the prototype doesn’t even break a sweat while towing more than a million pounds’ worth of half-siblings.
We’ve known for quite some time the F-150 will be available as a hybrid, packing a built-in generator to boot. But now that Ford has access to the know-how of Rivian while Tesla prepares to roll out an electric pickup truck of its own, the Blue Oval decided to go all-electric with the F-150 as well. It’s hard to say which of these three will win in a game of Top Trumps, more so if you remember that General Motors wants a piece of the pie too.
The F-150 Electric will join “the all-new F-150 Hybrid that goes on sale next year,” and according to Ford, “both electrified models will have the toughness, capability, and innovation that F-150 customers have come to expect.” The carparazzi caught the F-150 Electric in the wild earlier this year, featuring a big battery sandwiched underneath the cabin.
As for the charging port, Ford decided to integrate it into the front bumper for easier access. Jim Farley, president of global markets, also confirmed the F-150 Electric is coming but nobody actually knows when the real deal will be revealed in the flesh. At the earliest, we expect the most capable F-150 yet to arrive late in 2020 for the 2021 model year. The other possibility would be the 2021 North American International Auto Show in Detroit.