2022 Ford F-150 Lightning Pickup Peeks Out From Behind President Biden

The much-anticipated Ford F-150 Lightning, the all-electric F-150 that revives an iconic pickup name, is set to debut May 19—but a certain someone is receiving an exclusive first look a day early. That someone is President Joe Biden, who visited Ford’s Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, Michigan, today, to play up EVs and the future of the car industry. During the President’s speech, which took place in front of an old F-series pickup, a current F-150, and a covered-up electric F-150 Lightning, wouldn’t you know it, the sheet slipped off the Lightning (the silver truck to the left of the white F-150).

Now we must stress that a much better look at the F-150 Lightning is coming tomorrow, along with official details and info. (Here’s what we know so far.) But you just know Ford couldn’t resist offering the world a peek at the new fully electric pickup truck while the news media was carrying the event live. Sure enough, while the White House’s livestream of the event offered a mostly blocked view of the electric pickup, CNN’s live TV coverage was more zoomed-out, showing the entire front end of the Lightning. A full-width LED brow not found on regular F-150s set it apart. The same truck was shown in tweets of the facility from earlier today covered by a black sheet—a strong hint, along with Biden’s EV-centric, future-of-the-auto-industry speech, that it’s the Lightning.

And there it is. The electric @Ford F-150 Lightning ahead of comments by @POTUS. pic.twitter.com/IF0baIT55w

— Michael Wayland (@MikeWayland) May 18, 2021