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:
OK if I load my F150 with a 40' 5th wheel and complain that it fails is that my fault or am I trying to use the truck in a way that it was not designed?
Or if I cannot arrive at the same time as my buddy that flies in an airplane is that a vehicle failure? Or a failure to have proper expectations?
The truck actually made the destination right? To me that is success. Fail would be rolling in on a tow truck.
I think you are going way off track here to make your point and biases more relevant. I don't believe they used the vehicle in any way that it's owners manual would tell it not to like your silly example of using an F150 to tow a 40ft 5th wheel that is out of its limits. Does it say anything in the owners manual that they have to stay over night somewhere for 12 years to charge?
Does it say they can't let it charge for 6 hours?
They have done similar cross country videos with ICE vehicles and I don't see them doing anything different with this EV other than stopping so many times and waiting to charge. Just because this EV fails to do something just as well or not better than an ICE when they use it in the same manner does not mean that TFL failed(unless you can show me where they used it against the owners manual).
All it means is that the EV is not as good as ICE vehicles in certain areas yet. In other areas like power and efficiency, the EV is better. However, in range, overall time of travel, weight, and ease of extending your range by filling up, the ICE is better.
