All-Electric Ford F-150 Has Towed More Than 1M Pounds

Electric cars aren’t thought of as beasts on the road but that may change if Ford has its way. The car company hosted a demonstration showing the might of it’s all-electric Ford F-150 pickup truck prototype on Tuesday with the truck towing a loaded train weighing over a million pounds!

The ten rail cars were housing 42 full-scale F-150s inside as the prototype hauled the train for a distance of 1,000 feet. Linda Zhang, the F-150’s chief engineer told USA Today “We’re trying to show the benefits of that instant torque from an all-electric motor.”

Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/electric-ford-f150-prototype-towed-a-million-pounds-2019-7

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