Ford shows off electric F-150 pickup by towing a freight train

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has made bold claims about the company's upcoming electric pickup. Now Ford, maker of America's most popular pickup truck, is already pushing back with a demonstration of what its planned electric F-150 could be capable of doing.

Ford released video of a prototype electric F-150 towing a line of freight train cars weighing, according to Ford, over 1 million pounds. The truck, driven by F-150 chief engineer Linda Zhang, pulled the train for 1,000 feet. After that was done, Ford added train cars carrying 42 F-150 pickups -- one for every year that the Ford F-series has been the bestselling truck in America -- and Zhang pulled the train again. With the trucks, the train weight rose to 1.25 million pounds, according to Ford.

I wonder if it can pull this 152.4 lbs of steel 🤔

you have to go electric with everything and anything that uses fossil fuels

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So let's put this in perspective..... Electric started back in 1930 or so and your working on it ? in 2019

Wow

Yessir, I'm a-gonna watch 'er jest as soon's I git back from the tractor pull over to the fairgrounds.

With the F-150 going electric this is really the turning point where electrics go mainstream, more money is put into research into new batteries and eventually these things are everywhere. Now all those scenes where cars explode in combat will finally be real. elonmusk

Watch as my Fiesta ST puts a silly grin on my face. Fook trucks and SUVs, and the fat American asses that sit in them.

same thing can be done with a gocart powered by a 3 hp lawnmower engine. gearing and friction. meh

Useless....

How much is that in dollars

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Wow

Men have to compensate🙂

I don’t need a locomotive

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