Ford is betting big on a new battery powered F150 called the Lightning. Car and Driver magazine, which I've subscribed to for around 45 years just ran a test. A few out takes:
The Lightning drives indistinguishably from a regular F150 but accelerates much harder with 0-60 time of 4.0 seconds flat and a 12.7 second quarter mile @ 106 mph. That's approaching Corvette fast and will blow away a Mustang GT.The truck interior is borderline tacky and doesn't even approach the quality level of the pickup class leader Ram. If you get the big battery version, EPA estimates a 320 mile range but C&D tested an actual 230 mile range at a steady 75 mph. That with an unloaded truck with no trailers. You're not gonna take this truck on an Interstate trip towing anything. Even without a trailer, where the devil are you going to find a fast charger station every 200 miles and sit around an hour or three. You'd probably beat that trip average on a bicycle.
Oh yeah, a price as tested of $93,609 plus shipping plus sales tax, over $100K out the door. That's enough to get even Mr. Buttplug's attention. This is admittedly the top of the line Platinum and you can get the small battery work truck trim level for around $50K tax, tag, title but you'll lose a good portion of the power and the unloaded 75 MPH range will drop to around 170 miles. Looks like $80 K out the door is the cheapest you can a big battery version.
Until they get the battery infrastructure sorted out, the battery capacity increased by a factor of 3 or thereabouts & get the price out of the stratosphere, not ready for prime time is my opinion. The truck is just too compromised in several categories for this electro truck to even begin to take over from the F150 as a truck for everybody.
The Lightning drives indistinguishably from a regular F150 but accelerates much harder with 0-60 time of 4.0 seconds flat and a 12.7 second quarter mile @ 106 mph. That's approaching Corvette fast and will blow away a Mustang GT.The truck interior is borderline tacky and doesn't even approach the quality level of the pickup class leader Ram. If you get the big battery version, EPA estimates a 320 mile range but C&D tested an actual 230 mile range at a steady 75 mph. That with an unloaded truck with no trailers. You're not gonna take this truck on an Interstate trip towing anything. Even without a trailer, where the devil are you going to find a fast charger station every 200 miles and sit around an hour or three. You'd probably beat that trip average on a bicycle.
Oh yeah, a price as tested of $93,609 plus shipping plus sales tax, over $100K out the door. That's enough to get even Mr. Buttplug's attention. This is admittedly the top of the line Platinum and you can get the small battery work truck trim level for around $50K tax, tag, title but you'll lose a good portion of the power and the unloaded 75 MPH range will drop to around 170 miles. Looks like $80 K out the door is the cheapest you can a big battery version.
Until they get the battery infrastructure sorted out, the battery capacity increased by a factor of 3 or thereabouts & get the price out of the stratosphere, not ready for prime time is my opinion. The truck is just too compromised in several categories for this electro truck to even begin to take over from the F150 as a truck for everybody.