Key Takeaways
Ford unveils the F-150 Lightning SuperTruck, set to race on the Pikes Peak Worldwide Hill Climb.
Not for manufacturing, the SuperTruck will increase Ford’s electrical powertrain R&D for future automobiles and race packages.
The SuperTruck follows the SuperVan 4.2 file, with Romain Dumas on the helm.
Ford has revealed the primary photographs of the F-150 Lightning SuperTruck, the corporate’s latest EV demonstrator that can race at this 12 months’s Pikes Peak Worldwide Hill Climb. Further particulars concerning the race automotive have additionally been disclosed, together with a brief teaser video showcasing the electrical truck’s high-speed cornering means.
The F-150 Lightning SuperTruck remains to be sporting camouflage within the photographs, however it’s obvious that it is able to unleash hell on “America’s Mountain,” making the sooner launched F-150 Lightning Switchgear look comparatively pedestrian. Regardless of being hardly recognizable, Ford claims that the EV demonstrator remains to be based mostly on the manufacturing F-150 Lightning however dressed otherwise for the 12.5-mile mountain move.
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Big Aero Elements
As anticipated, the F-150 Lightning SuperTruck has outsized aerodynamic components. Developed in partnership with the STARD racing crew, it has an enormous splitter, dive planes, hood vents, facet skirts, facet vents, rear diffuser, and, after all, a gargantuan wing. Each important aero half is current to maintain the electrical truck on the bottom when tackling Pikes Peak’s 156 turns.
In response to Ford, all these aerodynamic options quantity to six,000 lbs of downforce (across the similar weight as a manufacturing F-150 Lightning), achieved at 150 mph. The truck’s mattress can be coated with a glass cover, presumably to assist with airflow, whereas the wheels are wrapped in Pirelli P Zero tires for max traction.
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Big Footwear To Fill
Whereas an electrical race truck sounds insane, the F-150 Lightning SuperTruck is not headed for manufacturing. Nonetheless, no matter Ford learns from it’s going to advance the corporate’s electrical powertrain R&D for manufacturing automobiles, particularly relating to software program calibration and battery cell chemistry. It is going to even be used for future race packages.
The F-150 Lightning SuperTruck will observe within the footsteps of the Electrical SuperVan 4.2, which set a brand new Open Class file at Pikes Peak at 8:47.682 final 12 months. Identical to the SuperVan 4.2, the SuperTruck can be piloted by record-holder Romain Dumas. The Pikes Peak Worldwide Hill Climb’s essential occasion is on June 23, 2024.
