Did The Ford F-150 Lightning Impact Rivian R1T Pre-Order Holders? May 24, 2021 at 8:35am ET ++ They discussed the new electric pickup truck for half an hour. Ben Sullins said he was so impressed with the Ford F-150 Lightning that he would even consider giving up on his Rivian R1T reservation to buy the electric pickup truck from Ford instead. What about other pre-order holders for Rivian’s pickup truck? Four of them decided to analyze the F-150 Lightning, and they spent half an hour discussing all it has to offer. The first point made by one of them is that the Tesla Cybertruck and the F-150 Lightning decided to copy one of the most distinctive design elements from the R1T: the horizontal light bar in the front end. The R1T would have been the very first one to present it. For the record, the VW Golf GTE also got that feature in its newest generation.