F-150 Lightning Earns the North American Truck of the Year Award

The Ford F-150 Lightning has been proving that electric vehicles are truly here to stay, and the truck’s full trophy case is just one testament to its quality and popularity. One of the F-150 Lightning’s latest big wins has been earning the North American Truck of the Year award for 2023. This is Ford’s third time in a row winning this award, and the fifth time that a Ford vehicle has won in the past three years.

“Earning North America’s Truck of the Year is huge for the team that has been working so hard to build and deliver as many Lightnings as possible, as quickly as possible,” said Jim Farley, Ford president and CEO. “We’re moving fast to further ramp production to a 150,000 run rate this fall and pushing to improve every aspect of this truck. We’ve started delivering Lightnings from the factory with a fantastic new user interface update to improve the driver experience that we’ll also roll out to all of our Lightning owners over-the-air.”

The F-150 Lightning was introduced in May of 2022, and since then it has become the best-selling electric truck in the country, no small feat as it has taken the sale of 15,617 trucks to get there. Ford also became the No. 2 EV automaker in the U.S. last year, largely due to the success of this electrified version of America’s favorite truck.

“When America’s best-selling vehicle goes electric you know the transition has momentum,” said Karl Brauer, NACTOY juror and freelance journalist for Forbes. “Ford’s effort to create an all-electric F-150 is remarkable because it combines the standard truck’s dimensions, which means it retains massive aftermarket support, with substantial upgrades to areas like storage and mobile power support. It’s really the best of all worlds, giving the F-150 Lightning a wide range of applications for both traditional and new-to-the-segment truck customers.”

To win the North American Truck of the Year award, a vehicle must pass through a gauntlet of inspections and qualifications. The truck must be new or have been substantially changed for the year to be considered, and accepted into the competition, the vehicle is judged by a jury of 50 professional automotive journalists from across North America. The Truck of the Year is chosen based on factors such as innovation, design, safety, performance, technology, user experience, driver satisfaction and value.

The F-150 Lightning has recently won many other awards, including the Motor Trend Truck of the Year award, The Car Connection Best Car to Buy award, the Detroit Free Press Truck of the Year award, TIME Top 200 Invention of 2022, the 2023 Kelley Blue Book Best Buy Award, Internet Brands Best Car to Buy, the Victory & Reseda Vehicle of the Year award, the Autoblog Technology of the Year 2022 award, the CarBuzz Save the Planet award, and more. If you place your custom order with Haldeman Ford in Allentown, PA today, the groundbreaking Ford F-150 Lightning can be yours!