{"id":4379,"date":"2024-01-19T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T16:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/electricwhip.com\/?p=4379"},"modified":"2024-01-19T20:27:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T04:27:57","slug":"ford-f-150-lightning-switchgear-ev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/electricwhip.com\/ford-f-150-lightning-switchgear-ev\/","title":{"rendered":"Become The Off-Road King With The Ford F-150 Lightning SwitchGear EV"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ford F-150 Lightning SwitchGear EV is an electrified monster<\/h3>\n

A partnership between Ford Performance and RTR has resulted in the Ford F-150 Lightning Switchgear EV, an electric truck that seems to compete on a higher level when compared to the electric Raptor. With both on and off-road configurations, the Switchgear is an all-around high performance electric beast that\u2019s been created in collaboration with Vaughn Gittin Jr.’s tuning company.<\/p>\n

Consider the Ford F-150 Lightning Switchgear EV as a unique car meant to demonstrate Ford’s commitment to racing and performance. Ford views it as a “testbed” to show off how well it can handle challenging off-road circumstances.<\/p>\n

Ford developed two variants of the truck including one off-road model and another surface road variant. The off-road vehicle is equipped with enormous 37-inch Nitto Ridge Grappler tires, while the street configuration sits on 33.23-inch Nitto NT420V 305 \/ 55R20. The off-road variant also has steel-fabricated bumpers, skid plates, and rock rails, as well as extra tires set on a rack in the truck’s bed.<\/p>\n

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Ford prioritized the chassis and suspension when creating the Switchgear. The double-wishbone arrangement of the independent front suspension includes droop limit straps, a stabilizer bar, and coil-over shocks. In the rear suspension, semi-trailing arms replace the double-wishbone, but there is still a stabilizer bar and droop limit straps.<\/p>\n

Ford claims that the 80-inch front and rear track widths are a “significant” increase over the standard F-150 Lightning. The suspension system also includes \u201cunique front and rear bumpers to improve approach and departure angles,\u201d in addition to Fox three-inch diameter internal bypass shock absorbers.<\/p>\n

As for now, there are no plans for the Ford<\/a> F-150 Lightning Switchgear EV to go into production as the company states it\u2019s currently a \u201ctestbed for pushing the boundaries of what\u2019s expected from electric trucks<\/a>.\u201d Needless to say, we\u2019ve got our fingers crossed.<\/p>\n

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The Ford F-150 Lightning SwitchGear EV is an electrified monster A partnership between Ford Performance and RTR has resulted in the Ford F-150 Lightning Switchgear EV, an electric truck that seems to compete on a higher level when compared to the electric Raptor. With both on and off-road configurations, the Switchgear is an all-around high […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricwhip.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricwhip.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricwhip.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricwhip.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricwhip.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4379"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/electricwhip.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4386,"href":"https:\/\/electricwhip.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379\/revisions\/4386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricwhip.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/electricwhip.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricwhip.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electricwhip.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}