A lifted prototype of the Ford F-150 Lightning was recently spied testing out on public roads, likely serving as a testbed for a future rival to the Chevy Silverado EV Trail Boss.
In photos captured by Ford Authority – GM Authority‘s sister publication – we find a Ford F-150 Lightning that appears to be wearing a lift kit, along with 18-inch General Grabber all-terrain tires found on the regular F-150 Tremor. This upcoming variant of the Blue Oval’s all-electric pickup truck will likely boast the F-150 Lightning Tremor nameplate as well.
As previously mentioned, an off-road-focused F-150 Lightning would serve as a direct rival to the Silverado EV Trail Boss, General Motors’ own all-terrain electric truck. Revealed back in January 2022, the Trail Boss variant of the all-electric Silverado stands out from the rest of the Silverado EV lineup thanks to a front fascia that incorporates a mix of black and silver, along with a darker glossy finish for the grille and upper fascia and a silver lower section in the bumper that also includes tow hooks.
Another notable exterior design piece of the Silverado EV Trail Boss is the contrasting black roof, which is found on the range-topping Silverado EV RST First Edition.
As for rollers, the Trail Boss trim of the all-electric Silverado rides on a set of two-tone wheels, with a black inner section and silver outer section, which are then wrapped in Goodyear Wrangler Territory M/T rubber.
Although details on the all-terrain Silverado EV are still forthcoming, it’s likely that the truck will feature a bevy of off-roading goodies from the Hummer EV, such as CrabWalk mode.
In regard to the timeline, General Motors stated that the 2024 Chevy Silverado EV Trail Boss will launch after following the Chevy Silverado EV RST First Edition and WT variants.
As a reminder, the 2024 Chevy Silverado EV features GM’s Ultium battery and GM Ultium Drive motors, and rides on the narrow-body variant of the GM BT1 platform. Production takes place at the GM Factory Zero plant in Michigan.
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Digressing from the topic at hand a bit, with the pricy cost of these proposed EV pickups, what are the auto makers doing to insure rust protection for the underside and side panels? Will these new vehicles hold up to deteriorating effects of upper Midwest winter road salting?
lol they havent done much (and cannot do much) for gas cars going back 100 years and you expect some miracle here? short of making the whole thing of plastic you cannot do more about it.
that said gm needs to fix their bent panel seams.. those things are never covered in anything and begin to rust pronto and it creeps up from there. the sub/frames need to be thicker coated but “winning with simplicity” gets in the way of that
Move away from the Midwest and avoid rust permanently. I moved south from New York 60 years ago and I am extremely happy! My cars last over 20 years with no rust!
If I could stand heat, like you, I would have done that years ago. My body isn’t built for it.
not having your cars rust out in a year (panel rust is final stage, it all rusts underneath in a year during a bad winter) helps you deal with being sweaty a lot better.
The F-150 has been aluminum for years now.
GM is apparently doing nothing.
Truly sad watching our big 3 wasting so much money on something the masses just simply aren’t going to buy unless forced. Ev sales are topping out and plateauing for the folks who like and want them, but there trying to produce as if there is this huge demand for them. Its like watching a train wreck.
Actually, I want an EV. However, just like when the ICE replaced the horse, EVs are in their infancy. I think there’s a lot more to come along with better technology and the ICE will be an alternative means of transport. However, if I were a technician or worked in the oil industry, I may be a bit concerned. It’s a job just to keep up with technology these days. I think our politicians should start seriously thinking about how new middle-class jobs will be created in the future. With global warming and everything else, I don’t think keeping the status quo or going backward is the answer. Just a thought.
Rosco you are exactly what those politicians you talked about want. I mean that as nice as possible. You say just like when the ice replaced the horse, well the consumers got to make that choice because it was such a leap forward, it was undeniable and caught on, EVs will not catch on no time soon, they don’t offer the upside of the ice/horse comparison and never will. Nor do those politicians intend on letting the consumer decide. It’s really simple, let’s see what the masses actually want instead of forcing a choice on them in the name of global warming/climate change or whatever the name for it is now. Let the consumer decide, not the politicians, because what have they ever done rite other than line their own pockets and misuse tax money from us? And that’s on both sides of the aisle.
There’s is no way you read this publication and believe any large changes in the US were market driven.
Young buyers are going to want EVs nearly exclusively. There will be some pain now for OEMs as they fix parts of their value chain but they have no choice. They have to build for what they think the buyers of the future will want.
Dagryme i agree with you to a certain extent, but i don’t believe in selling out to China to make that happen. At any cost. China dominates the rare earth materials needed for all these evs and that’s not going to change. So, are you ok with another country holding that heavy hand over our heads?
I agree we should not depend on China any more than the world does on oil from Russia or the middle east. Keep in mind, this in new evolving technology. Elan Musk gets his battery material out of some mine he bought in the desert southwest. Over time, there will be expanded new technologies maybe lesser dependent on lithium. Now back to China. If you want to see who is responsible for China taking our jobs since the 1970’s, look in the mirror. Everybody was happy so long as their company was manufacturing product in the USA and they could buy the cheap foreign stuff. It made “their” paycheck go further. Then the companies and their stockholders were delighted to build the next factory in China and reap the awards until pretty soon your job or mine were gone. It’s not only China today. I’ve bought products made in Viet Nam lately. American owned companies. Make the products here in the USA paying higher wages and that product costs more and everybody screams about inflation. Well, you can’t have it both ways. We need some dialog about give and take in this country and it takes a thinking person to understand the situation. Some politician with one liners isn’t going to solve the problem.
Rosco i agree with ya on most of those points no doubt, but aint no politician or anybody on wall street ever going to solve the problem that has been created. In fact, it will just get worse because the power players of the world, wall street and big-time investors love the China model rite now. Weve been sold up the river for so long most can’t even see it anymore. Not so sure i agree with the us citizen being at fault for the problem of losing jobs to China. I believe Us companies and investors realized the Us workers made so much money and benefits that it made more money sense for them to build factories in China, make products there much cheaper under their labor laws, using forced child labor then bring back here and sell for the same price. Yes, there does need to be more dialogue but between who? Everyone who makes decisions is so corrupt it’s like you have the hens on one side and on the other side only the foxes are allowed to talk about who’s going to guard the hen house. Yet we keep wondering why the hens get eaten all the time. Also, about inflation, the Us citizen didn’t cause that neither, the politicians did that in all their infinite wisdom. Until we come up with a way to have term limits or an actual ability to hammer dirty politicians nothing is ever going to change. If we could make an example out of a few, long term prison terms, stripping them of all their wealth or any other method that would make them think twice before doing so. But that will never happen because the foxes are making the rules! And foxes don’t go after the other foxes, because there playing on the same team:(