Late last year, the Ford Maverick lost out to the Rivian R1T for the 2022 MotorTrend Truck of the Year award. However, this year, the tables have turned, handing victory to The Blue Oval, and more specifically, the Ford F-150 Lightning, which was just named the 2023 MotorTrend Truck of the Year.
While it’s not the first electric pickup to add the award to its trophy case, the Ford F-150 Lightning is the first EV truck to have earned its victory by way of a unanimous vote among MT’s judges.
“The F-150 Lightning’s instantaneous torque and standout ride and handling make it without a doubt the best truck Ford has ever made. If that feels like a bold statement, consider that amongst our judges, the Lightning won Truck of the Year by unanimous decision – the first EV truck to convince all judges across the board,” said MotorTrend Group Head of Editorial Ed Loh in a press release.
Over 13,000 units of the F-150 Lightning have been sold since the pickup was introduced earlier this year, making it one of the hottest trucks on the market. Ultimately, it beat a host of ICE-powered competitors, including Chevy Silverado 1500, the GMC Sierra 1500, the Ram 2500 and the Toyota Tundra.
This important accolade for the F-150 Lightning comes on the heels of several others, including the F-150 Lightning Pro winning the 2023 Commercial EV Award from Green Car Journal, 2022 Wards Auto 10 Best Engines & Propulsion systems list, while also finishing as a finalist for other awards such as the 2023 Green Truck of the Year, the NA Truck of the Year, and the 2023 North American Truck of the Year award.
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Taking a page out of the Maverick's book.
All that Electric Spice looks pretty good, if we do say so ourselves.
It has remained with the original owner's family since new, too.
Three words: tech, advertising, and business.
The standard system isn't half bad.
Another nicely kept example of the newer Ranger.
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Laughable. What's the range in the upper midwest , pulling a trailer, when it is -10 degrees, 50 miles?
Because everyone who drives/uses a truck lives the Midwest and tows…..
I live in the Midwest and tow a 6000+ trailer, and don’t think 50-100 mile driving range is adequate. Diesel please! EV is a joke!!!
Oh my, now it’s only 50 miles?
If this downward disinformation trend keeps up we’ll hear that fully charged trucks left out overnight drain by the next morning except for summertime unless then carrying a bag of groceries.
looks like everybody is jumping on the "band wagon". You can only defer the real cost with tax payer government subsidies for so long.
Tell us what else you don’t comprehend about technology incubation and achieving industrial economies of scale.
Overpriced "Battery of the Year" or "Car of the Year" or "Over subsidized Taxpayer Funded Boondoggle of the Year." But "Truck" of the year? No, not by a long shot. If it can't haul a Christmas tree up an anthill without needing a re-charge, then it is not a truck.
Oh look, our favorite failure rooting Grinch is back among us.
If this is what Ford achieves by taking an ICE based truck and modifying into a credible BEV powered vehicle, just think what its successor will be like when made from a clean sheet BEV optimized design!
This truck (like Mach E) is a 1G placeholder predicting where Ford’s tech is headed and demonstrating a performance floor for those to come (as well as giving current customers Ford BEV car and truck options to Tesla, GM, VW and Rivian but not so much Toyota because they are 😴 on BEV.)
Ok fake To(an)y(ot)a sock puppet…
You keep trying to convince folks with the narrative that Toyota wasn’t caught sleeping on BEVs. And isn’t jumping through it’s butt trying to catch up. . . In the meantime enjoy some facts:
From Auto News today:
“Now Terashi’s group is considering whether to drop the three-year-old e-TNGA architecture, created by modifying a gasoline car platform, in favor of a dedicated EV platform, people with knowledge of that work have said.
E-TNGA was designed so EVs could be built on Toyota assembly lines with gasoline cars and hybrids, a compromise that limits the automaker’s ability to deliver factory-floor innovations that Toyota engineers now recognize as key to Tesla’s strength.
Also, Toyota designed e-TNGA on the assumption it would need to sell about 3.5 million EVs a year, about one-third of its current global volume, by 2030, sources have said, while the industry outlook is for a faster pace of growth.
Toyota has been working with two suppliers Denso and Aisin for its EV reboot.“
Also your passive-aggressive “we won’t get into” actually getting into is so childish.
So, by your arbitrary standard anything under SD is not a real truck? Actual duty cycle be dammed? That’s just stupid man.
Ps if your confirmation bias has essentially become self identifying with the GVWR of your truck, you might be doing life a bit wrong.