F150 Lightning Road Trip & Ike Gauntlet Pull

time2roll wrote:
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.

Key word being "I". So you drove about 500miles per day. That's reasonable, but not "pushing it" by any means for a single driver.

Based on the TFL thing, that would have added 8 hours to your trip for misc charge stops. If that works for you, great.
But "TFL failed to use the truck as designed" can easily be interpreted as "the truck takes longer to get there because you have to stop and recharge so many times."
Maybe not a deal breaker running bobtail, but without any speculation, based on Reisender's real world experience towing about the tiniest trailer one could actually call a "trailer" and certainly far smaller than someone who buys a "big" F150 would reasonably expect to be able to tow, the range IS severely hindered in a towing scenario.
Take your 8 hours charging, double it to 16 based on Reisender's data for a towable pup tent on wheels, and then double it again for a "small" 5-6klb say 24' TT.
Does 16 additional hours on the side of the road charging, to get to IL towing a trailer that is less than half the rated tow capacity of the truck (or at least a normal F150) sound reasonable?

Just like ole YosemiteSam, the world is a nice place if you discount things like math, wind resistance, gravity, wind and other real world considerations like schedule.