Comic Jay Leno loves automobiles however says driving the Ford F-150 Lightning transformed him into “a truck man.”
Leno examined considered one of Ford’s new electrical pickups — with CEO Jim Farley driving alongside — for an episode of his CNBC present, “Jay Leno’s Storage,” that may air this fall.
“As a lot as I really like my inner combustion engines, this has offered me,” Leno stated on CNBC this month. “It is very spectacular.”
Leno stated he was significantly impressed by the truck’s fast acceleration, quiet cabin and skill to perform as a generator throughout an influence outage. To display the Professional Energy Onboard characteristic, Leno stated he had the lights for his interview with Farley plugged into the pickup as an alternative of {the electrical} grid.
In a teaser video, Farley is proven telling Leno that the automaker had a lot of inner disagreements in regards to the Lightning.
“We have been arguing about this truck greater than nearly any automobile I’ve seen in my profession,” he stated.
