The Ford F-150 Lightning is a big truck.
The Ford F-150 Lightning is a big truck.
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Ford F-150 Lightning electric vehicle is a mighty luxury truck | review

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 5 min

Elon Musk’s Tesla pickup truck has a sci-fi design. But I recently drove a Ford F-150 Lightning pickup truck that looks like your more traditional monster truck. But it’s available as an all-electric vehicle.

The car packs a lot of tech for people who want a taste of the future. Before the pandemic, I picked up a habit of reviewing cars for the tech that is in them. I didn’t drive these vehicles around a track like a pro car reviewer, but I kept an eye on the tech in electric vehicles. And so I tried out a 2022 model of the Ford F-150 Lightning. It’s like a country truck for nerds.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.