F150 Lightening
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chovy wrote:
There's a good podcast on crowdcast.fm that just talks about the F150 Lightning and whether it will pull a trailer. The general gist of it was that the range is 300miles and with a trailer it would be 150miles.
For best battery life it is generally recommended that you stay in the central 60% of your battery's capacity, meaning that the 150 mile range just became 90 miles. Besides prolonging the life of your battery you simply don't want to run your battery all the way down because you can't just walk to the nearest charge station and get a bucket of electrons in the event that you do run totally out. Between the scarcity of charging stations in my area and the lack of reliability of the non-Tesla stations that means that you have to keep quite a bit of charge in reserve. Also, the charge rate slows dramatically as you approach full, the last 20% of charge can take as long as the first 60%. Unless you have time to burn you don't generally want to go to 100% anyway.
To me, that 300 mile unloaded range of the Ford is going to seriously compromise its appeal to many people. I find the 300 mile range of my Model Y to be awkward for trips in my part of the country and cutting it in half by pulling a trailer would make a serious trip all but impossible. I did get the hitch in case I want to take a utility trailer to Home Depot and back, haul some bicycles or maybe tow my boat to the nearest launch ramp but anything beyond 40 miles each way is going to be avoided.
