NEW FORD LIGHTNING GENERATOR
Ford says the extended-range battery is enough to power an average home for three days, which for professionals, might mean no more costly, droning generator rentals at the job site. With V2L, you can use the truck to power. (Need to bring home five bags of concrete in the rain? Leave the tarp at home.) Far and away the F-150 Lightning's hallmark trick, however, is its vehicle-to-load functionality. It can, for example, haul up to 400 pounds of cargo in its weatherproof frunk. This truck brings a number of new capabilities to the table that no other truck on the planet can achieve. OK, so the F-150 Lightning may not be the most capable of the F-Series trucks from a cargo standpoint, but I'm just getting started. Still, you may want to stick with your gas-powered rig for longer hauls. I hope to do more thorough towing tests before I draw any formal conclusions, but it certainly seems like the F-150 Lightning will be great for towing short distances. The difference, of course, is that you can much more quickly refill than you can recharge. Now, a 50% reduction in range may seem extreme, but it's more or less in line with the increased consumption you'd expect when towing with a regular truck.
Despite that, the truck accelerated smoothly and braked cleanly, enough so that even though I lacked any substantial hills to climb, I have no doubt the truck would've tackled them with no issue. Total weight of that trailer and cargo? 9,500 pounds, just 500 short of the max rating. To put that capability to the test Ford provided a number of towing and hauling experiences, offering everything from an enviable pile of plywood to a utility trailer loaded down with water and wine. In other words, it's more or less right in the middle of the F-150 capability range. The Lightning sits closest to the 2.7-liter EcoBoost F-150 configuration, with its 10,000 pounds of towing and 2,480 pounds of hauling. Both figures are considerably higher than the 3.3-liter V6 F-150's ratings of 8,200 and 1,985 pounds, respectively, but fall pretty far short of the 3.5-liter EcoBoost F-150's 14,000 and 3,250 pounds. The Lightning has a max tow rating of 10,000 pounds and max payload of 2,235. And here, it's a bit of a mixed bag for the F-150 Lightning compared to its internal-combustion siblings. While those numbers are significant, more important are what you can do with them. Regardless which battery you get, expect 775 pound-feet of torque applied to all four wheels. Go with the lesser of the two battery packs and you're looking at 452 horsepower, or 580 hp if you step up to the extended-range pack.
Fully electric, to be clear, powered by either a 98- or 131-kilowatt-hour battery pack delivering between 230 and 320 miles of range. A really good, really useful, really quick truck that's also electric. Now, less than a year later, the F-150 Lightning is fully in production, and a game-changer it is indeed.įord invited me down to San Antonio, Texas to drive its electric F-150, a suitable place to back up the key thing the company wants to reinforce with the Lightning: It's just a truck. The F-150 Lightning had all the potential in the world to be a true mass-market game-changer. That fact - the sheer significance of this truck's success to Ford's bottom line - made last May's announcement that the company would build an electric F-150 all the more important. Last year, Ford sold more than 725,000 of the things, and that's despite supply-chain issues and everything else going on in the world. The F-Series is the perennial most popular vehicle on the planet.
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