Ford’s F-150 Lightning might be entered within the 2024 Pikes Peak Worldwide Hill Climb scheduled for June 23, the automaker introduced on Friday.

Nevertheless, Ford would not plan on working a inventory model of the electrical pickup truck at Pikes Peak. As an alternative, the automaker is engaged on a particular F-150 Lightning demonstrator car just like the E-Transit Customized-based Supervan 4.2 demonstrator that ran up the mountain final fall.

A teaser photograph exhibiting the F-150 Lightning demonstrator below a shroud would not reveal a lot, though there seems to be an outsized rear wing just like what Ford fitted to the Supervan for its Pikes Peak run.

The Supervan additionally packed a three-motor setup good for 1,400 hp, and managed a time of 8:47.682. That was a brand new document for the Open Class, and never far off the tempo of the general winner final yr, a Wolf TSC-FS race automotive that set a time of 8:40.08.

Ford Supervan 4.2

Ford has additionally constructed a Mustang Mach-E demonstrator with seven electrical motors producing a mixed 1,400 hp.

Ford employed Pikes Peak’s present total document holder Romain Dumas for the run within the Supervan. The French racing driver posted a blistering time of seven:57.148 behind the wheel of Volkswagen’s ID.R electrical time assault particular through the 2018 Pikes Peak Worldwide Hill Climb to assert the document. Whereas the F-150 Lightning is not anticipated to interrupt that document, it could come shut. The automaker hasn’t introduced who will pilot the F-150 Lightning.

Ford additionally hasn’t indicated whether or not it’s planning a stronger model of the F-150 Lightning for the street, although the automaker in January confirmed the Switchgear idea. Whereas the idea matched the inventory F-150 Lightning’s most 580 hp, it featured two swappable chassis configurations that would alter the truck between avenue and off-road efficiency.

F-150 Lightning shipments are at the moment on maintain as Ford appears to be like to type out a high quality problem considered associated to the headlights used on the most recent 2024 mannequin. Ford spokesperson Emma Bergg informed the Detroit Free Press final week that shipments ceased on Feb. 9 and are anticipated to renew within the coming weeks after some high quality checks are accomplished.