Ford’s Platinum Black F-150 Lightning is the selection for Batman

Ford’s making a particular new manufacturing facility matte black Platinum Black version of its all-electric F-150 Lightning truck. Revealed at the moment, this Lightning appears to be like like Batman’s Tumbler Batmobile from The Darkish Knight trilogy, with some shiny end remaining on the door handles, roof, and elsewhere. Ford spokesperson Susannah Evans tells The Verge that beneath the manufacturing facility wrap, the car is completed with Ford’s shiny agate black paint.

Ford will solely make 2,000 of those murdered-out pickups that begin at $97,995, which is about $6,000 greater than the common Platinum tier and roughly the identical as the value earlier than Ford dropped costs on the truck in July.

In at the moment’s announcement, Ford says that halfway by means of the second yr of manufacturing, it “is on observe to triple F-150 Lightning manufacturing by fall” as manufacturing accelerates towards constructing 150,000 of the electrical vans yearly. On the similar time, as we reported in June, the restricted availability of its cheaper entry-model “Professional” Lightning has induced some consumers to again out — so refocusing consideration to a limited-release mannequin makes much more sense now that Ford is assured about what number of vans it may well construct.

Deliveries are anticipated in early 2024, and beginning at the moment, anybody can signal as much as be notified when preorders open. Should you do handle to get one, it can even have an aluminum plate within the frunk and driver door jamb imprinted with the limited-edition manufacturing numbering.

It contains delicate additions like a smoked end on the entrance mild bar and a black (and never blue) Ford oval beneath it. It doesn’t fairly have the monster truck F-O-R-D influence that lovers of Ford’s F-150 Raptor are into, however the Platinum Black nonetheless appears to be like like an actual robust man journey. And people robust guys will be actually helpful, too, because the 9.6kW Professional Energy possibility will now ship with the flexibility to energy home equipment whereas the truck is powered off, and it contains new energy utilization visuals.

Like the usual Platinum trim, this one comes with the 300-mile extended-range battery commonplace and the Platinum-exclusive “Nirvana” contoured leather-based seating with a 10-way energy driver seat — however, after all, it’s in a luxe black end within the limited-edition mannequin. It additionally will get a blacked-out model of the 22-inch wheels and black “Lightning” graphics on the standard-to-this-model twin glass roof. The Platinum Black additionally contains commonplace power-deploying working boards with a gloss black end, reflective black lightning badges, and a soft-shell black tonneau cowl to cover a Batcycle beneath.