Ford Lightning sales per state
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Ford has used electric AC systems for a while now. You likely have a resistive heat system similar to what’s on the Mach E. Draws battery power thru the heating element.
Weight w/tools, etc - about 10,430 lbs.....range about 490 miles. 4x4
So when SHTF who are you going to get to replace your battery? Florida already proved that salt water flooding = dangerous fires. When something really bad happens and you need to be 1000 miles away that will be .... never because there will not be enough chargers.
I will go out on a limb and say you cannot make it from Houston to Dallas on a crowded holiday in an electric vehicle. X amount of vehicles is much greater than Y amount of chargers, when it takes hours to charge. The traffic will eat up your reserves.
What does that have to do with Ford Lightnings? I am not sure, but an electric truck is a really bad idea unless it is parked and powering your house for the day that the battery will last.
Pulling a trailer? Ha, that's a good one!
I will go out on a limb and say you cannot make it from Houston to Dallas on a crowded holiday in an electric vehicle. X amount of vehicles is much greater than Y amount of chargers, when it takes hours to charge. The traffic will eat up your reserves.
What does that have to do with Ford Lightnings? I am not sure, but an electric truck is a really bad idea unless it is parked and powering your house for the day that the battery will last.
Pulling a trailer? Ha, that's a good one!
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Internal combustion engines have a couple hundred years of failures and remedies.
Steam power is still running the grid. Not enough, but still doing very well.
These rare earth batteries are in their infancy.
Coal and oil ain't rare. The government needs to leave the energy industry alone.
Steam power is still running the grid. Not enough, but still doing very well.
These rare earth batteries are in their infancy.
Coal and oil ain't rare. The government needs to leave the energy industry alone.
Yep no one has successfully used a EV for years its all smoke and mirrors and every one built has failed and burned to the ground.
There has never been an ICE vehicle that failed on a long trip or burned to the ground.
No one has used a lightning to pull a boat to the local lake its impossible to find any use for one.
So when SHit hits the fan and all the roads are blocked what good is your ICE going to be Sure you can take back roads for 600 miles till your out of gas well without power its going to be hard to fill that ICE vehicle.
Oh ya no one can own a ICE and EV everyone has to only have one or the other. No way!!!!!!
there is absolutely no situation that an EV fits the bill for.
My Prius was at 200,000 miles this year and just got it's second battery, and this is Texas, so not too likely to get salt water flooding where I live. My first choice would be a hybrid, but looking at what the oBitem Admin is doing to the oil industry, I would strongly consider an adequate solar panel setup that could charge an electric truck on the ranch to be a potentially good thing. If I could charge my own vehicle and be less dependent on going to town to get gasoline, that could be mighty handy.
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there is a debate about this on the lightning forums.
For me if I look in the side mirror I can see the tail light and when I lift off the gas I can see the brake light turn on.
But you have different driving modes that may effect that I tend to stay in sport mode.
3 bucks for 80 miles.
Probably cost me 11 bucks in the Expedition.
You win if the trip was less than 80 miles round.
Some day we will all have these but that day is not today. I'm glad it works for you. I need a car I can jump in and drive to AZ over night or do stuff I do with large SUVs.
Like I said some day.
Have fun with it.
What are your torque and HP numbers.
