F150 Lightning Road Trip & Ike Gauntlet Pull

ShinerBock wrote:
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.

I recently drove from So Cal to IL and slept 8 hours each of 3 nights and was in at each stop for dinner. I could not imagine cutting sleep to 5 hours to make the journey in 2 stops 3 days. To each their own.

Still to me if someone says they charged overnight I would expect 10-12 hours charging not 5. The truck did not fail to charge and acted perfectly normal as designed. TFL failed to use the truck as designed.