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Ford’s F-150 Lightning performance one-off is for extreme off-roading
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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...
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