EV Review: 2023 Ford F-150 Lightning Platinum Extended Range — via drivingdotca
So, a little context about range. By comparison, the longest-range and most efficient BEV that Range Finder has yet tested was Lucid’s Air Touring,. Do the numbers and that works out to 19.9 kilowatt-hours per 100 kilometres, more than twice the efficiency the Lightning “boasts.”
Except that the Lucid ain’t so dinky. In fact, it’s freaking huge, stretching 4,975 mm stem to stern. It is, for lack of a better metaphor, the Mercedes-Benz S-Class of battery-powered sedans, and I can assure you that no gas-powered S-Class — especially one with the Lucid’s 620 horsepower — has ever doubled the fuel economy of a pickup.Article contentJust as important to this contextual discussion is that F-150’s 400-volt battery architecture can’t charge very quickly.
Of course, the answer would be the range. Simply put, for anyone other than suburbanites using their pickups as butch minivans — and those landscapers and other workies with set routes — it’s hard to see how to get around its range limitations. Cold weather and towing kill it, and, even in ideal conditions, its slow charging would make long-distance hauling a tedium.
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