F150 Lightning Road Trip & Ike Gauntlet Pull
TFL drove the new F150 Lightning from Michigan to Colorado Test Configuration: Mostly highway miles at 70-75 mph Total Miles: 1225 Total Charging Time: ~ 5 hours Summary: (Fail) Efficiency at ...
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time2roll wrote:ShinerBock wrote:The first night they pulled in a 3am and slept until 8am. I think TFL failed to get a night sleep.
After watching the video, I think you need to add more context to this to further your point. The charging of five hours was on top of overnight charging while they slept.
I would consider 12 hours to be an overnight charge. Pull in by 8pm, leave 8am.
This could cut into driving safely the next day. (TFL fail)
The last time I did a road trip like that from Texas to Michigan helping a friend move, we only slept for 6 hours both nights. I was driving his crew cab pick up truck and he was driving the Penske van that was towing his GTO. Our goal was to get to the destination and not sight see. I can't image adding another 5-10 hours to that trip.
The two road trip before that was from South Texas to Utah. That one was very similar to the amount of miles in the TFL video of 1,200. Again, both trips up there we only slept for about 6 hours because we were in a hurry to get there. I was also towing my Jeep and bunch of other gear totaling 10k lbs so I can't imagine how much additional time I would have spent charging on on that trip.
So while the times they slept and woke up are not normal, the amount of time they slept is for all of the road trips I have taken where we actually spent the night along the route. There are many road trips that my wife and I teamed up to drive straight through like Florida. I think the truck in the video would have forced us to stay the night somewhere.
