Every year, Ford Motor Co. brings a bevy of prototype vehicles to the McKinley Climatic Laboratory at Eglin Air Force Base, located in the Florida panhandle, for extreme cold-weather testing - getting temperatures down as low as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit in a span of just 10 hours, all in spite of the muggy summer heat just outside the laboratory's doors. Video courtesy of Ford Motor Co.
Sean Kilcarr is a former longtime FleetOwner senior editor who wrote for the publication from 2000 to 2018. He served as editor-in-chief from 2017 to 2018.