HARD CHARGER

WE GET OUR HANDS ON A, RIGHT-HAND DRIVE FORD F-150 LIGHTNING EV TO SEE IF IT STACKS UP AGAINST ITS COMBUSTION-POWERED EFFIE STABLEMATES

WORDS COBEY BARTELS

PICKUP trucks are a hit Down Under, and while the late-to-class Ford F-150 is very good, despite offering V6 rather thanV8 grunt, you might be in luck if instant torque and silent power is more your thing. We recently caught wind that there was a warehouse full of all-electric F-150 Lightnings EVs in Brisbane – converted to right-hand drive, no less – so we went knocking. It turns out AUSEV – which brings the Lightnings in, converts and then sells them – said yes to our proposition, which went something along the lines of: “Please let us take one of them off road … we’ll be gentle.” The F-150 Lightning Extended Range we picked up was remanufactured to RHD by Advanced Manufacturing Queensland (AMQ). Like AUSEV, which sells them, AMQ is a subsidiary…

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4x4 Magazine Australia (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2024

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