Photos surfaced today showing a Ford F-150 test mule that photographers believe is a hybrid or PHEV pickup. What’s more, the photographers managed to capture some video evidence of this new truck (which you can see below).

Photographers captured the truck recently in Dearborn, Michigan. When the truck was running about 35 mph, the photographer believed the engine noise would cease and a humming electrical noise would begin. To reinforce this belief, the truck clearly sounds as it is humming while idling at a stoplight but then the engine fired back to life when the light turned green.

The F-150 also appears to be sporting what looks to be a charge port hidden with camouflage, meaning this test truck could be a PHEV, or plug-in electric hybrid vehicle. Ford has previously claimed it would created a gas-electric hybrid powertrain F-150, thigh it was rumored we wouldn’t see this truck until closer to 2020. This prototype might suggest we could see a hybrid version of the F-150 sooner.

We would expect a PHEV F-150 to be equipped with a V6 Ecoboost and would likely be mated to the soon-to-be-released new 10-speed automatic transmission that will be unveiled on the 2017 Raptor later this year.

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