Ford is returning to Pikes Peak later subsequent month with a wild electrical pickup. The Blue Oval has been teasing the “EV demonstrator” since March, however at this time, the automaker offers us a whole have a look at the truck whereas revealing it will possibly generate 6,000 kilos of downforce at 150 miles per hour.
The SuperTruck Demonstrator will obtain that determine with its equally wild aerodynamics. The low-slung pickup encompasses a large goose-neck wing that hangs off the again, towering above the roof of the cab. It additionally has a large entrance splitter, shops behind the entrance wheels, and an enormous rear diffuser. Ford developed the truck in partnership with STARD.
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Ford didn’t present any additional particulars about its electrical SuperTruck past how a lot downforce it’ll make. Nonetheless, it does have some styling similarities to the SuperVan 4.2 that the automaker campaigned in final 12 months’s hillclimb occasion.
That, too, had an enormous wing and an aggressive aero package that saved it planted by the course’s 156 turns. Its triple-motor setup produced 1,400 horsepower. The brand new pickup might have an analogous setup, however we’ll have to attend for extra particulars. The Ford SuperVan 4.0 had 4 motors that made 1,972 hp.
That is Ford’s second electrical demonstrator. It launched the F-150 Switchgear, inbuilt collaboration with RTR, earlier this 12 months. The corporate primarily based it on the manufacturing Lightning platform, enhancing its off-road functionality with skid plats, composite physique panels, and a brand new suspension.
Ford will doubtless proceed teasing the pickup main as much as the occasion’s 102nd working that begins on June 23. We’ll doubtless be taught extra particulars between now and when it runs up the hill. Romain Dumas, the present Pikes Peak Worldwide Hill Climb file holder, will pilot the Ford. However the Blue Oval received’t be the one automaker there with an EV. A modified Hyundai Ioniq 5 can even deal with the well-known hillclimb course later in June.