{"id":79520,"date":"2021-05-12T14:29:50","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T21:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=79520"},"modified":"2021-05-12T14:29:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T21:29:50","slug":"fords-lightning-f150-will-be-an-electric-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/fords-lightning-f150-will-be-an-electric-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford&#8217;s Lightning F150 will Be an Electric Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3iS5f716oYQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ford has announced the return of one of the most iconic nameplates in its history, well for F-150s that is. Ford will be releasing an all-new F-150 Lightning and will be revealed May 19 at Ford World Headquarters in Dearborn and livestreamed for millions to watch. This isn&#8217;t the F-150 Lightning you remember though, this Lightning, will be&#8211;electric.<\/p>\n<p>The F-150 Lightning will be Ford&#8217;s foothold in the electric pickup market. The new Lightning will have all the technologies and capabilities of the F-Series, America\u2019s best-selling vehicle, combined with the power, payload and towing capability that is the hallmark of all Built Ford Tough trucks.<\/p>\n<p>The reveal takes place at 9:30 p.m. EDT, May 19, from Ford World Headquarters and will be broadcast live with 30+ ways to watch across physical and digital destinations, including the Ford Facebook and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3iS5f716oYQ\">YouTube<\/a>\u00a0channels,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ford.to\/F150TW\">Twitter<\/a>, key national publications as well as 18 impactful out-of-home locations such as Times Square in New York City and Las Vegas Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery so often, a new vehicle comes along that disrupts the status quo and changes the game \u2026 Model T, Mustang, Prius, Model 3. Now comes the F-150 Lightning,\u201d said Ford President and CEO Jim Farley. \u201cAmerica\u2019s favorite vehicle for nearly half a century is going digital and fully electric. F-150 Lightning can power your home during an outage; it\u2019s even quicker than the original F-150 Lightning performance truck; and it will constantly improve through over-the-air updates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Added Farley: \u201cThe truck of the future will be built with quality and a commitment to sustainability by Ford-UAW workers at the Ford Rouge Complex &#8212; the cathedral of American manufacturing and\u00a0our most\u00a0advanced plant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Production of the F-150 Lightning begins next spring at the all-new Ford\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/media.ford.com\/content\/fordmedia\/fna\/us\/en\/news\/2020\/09\/17\/ford-deepens-commitment-to-american-manufacturing.html\">Rouge Electric Vehicle Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Ford will be releasing an all-new F-150 Lightning and will be revealed May 19 at Ford World Headquarters in Dearborn and livestreamed for millions to watch.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":79523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3470,8393,1064],"tags":[6142,5562,43,8430,41,2030],"class_list":["post-79520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-press-releases","category-product-news-releases","tag-electric","tag-f-150","tag-ford","tag-lightning","tag-news","tag-trucks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Untitled.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-kGA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79524,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79520\/revisions\/79524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}