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 ...
Forum Discussion
valhalla360 wrote:Why would the drive time and associated labor and other costs get excluded?time2roll wrote:
For a commercial truck "performance" is often measured in cost per mile.
Nope.
If you produce a truck that gets $0.01/mile but it only can go 2 miles per day, trucking companies won't care to look at your truck.
A low cost per mile is only good if they can keep the miles per day high. Sitting at a truck stop waiting for batteries to charge is not making miles.
Speed, fuel, labor, maintenance, down time, insurance, acquisition, total life, and everything else.
All in, total cost.
