Ford Motor : F 150 Lightning Based SuperTruck to Scale Pikes Peak

Ford Performance is headed back to the twisting mountain roads and corners of "America's Mountain" to help advance the company's electric powertrain research and development - and it's bringing a super truck to conquer them.

The F-150 Lightning SuperTruck will take part in the 102nd running of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb brought to you by Gran Turismo in late June.

Based on Ford's best-selling electric pickup, the Ford Performance team will be ratcheting up the vehicles' aerodynamics and power output to take on the daunting 12.5-mile uphill excursion, which happens to be well-suited as a test bed for electric powertrains. Running electric test vehicles there allows Ford to push the boundaries of EV powertrains in the most extreme conditions and bring those learnings back to enhance its production vehicles.

These performance-minded rolling laboratories facilitate the development of components such as motors, inverters, and battery packs, as well as informing software calibration and battery cell chemistry, among other areas.

While more details will be announced later, Ford released the first teaser for the truck today.