Warm weather, OTA updates, and learning to interpret our electric F-150’s range predictions have improved our experience.
Comfortable weather, OTA updates, and learning to interpret our F-150’s range predictions have improved our experience. The charging infrastructure has not.XLT yearlong test car made a first impression akin to Borat arriving as a live-in exchange student. Its customs andwere about that foreign and off-putting. But over the months our electric Borat has learned to communicate better , and we've learned to interpret its messages more effectively.
But because we always drive like Borat, on five separate traffic-free highway drives we documented, the range prediction ended up being 20 percent optimistic . Conversely, over nine trips covering shorter runs and/or heavier traffic, the computer predictions proved to be 16 percent conservative . The net over 17 trips and 758 miles of navigated routing was a 5 percent overstatement of range.
Every day we hope and pray for an over-the-air update to exorcize the worst of our Lightning's Borat behavioral anomalies. And the announcedExtended-range battery , Group 312A , Max Trailer Tow package , spray-in bedliner , soft tri-fold tonneau , mobile power cord , under-seat storage Our LED headlamps gracefully transition from high to low beam and bend light into curves, the way only high-end luxury cars used to.
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