Ford stops taking orders on the lightening

Reisender wrote:

Huntindog wrote:

time2roll wrote:

FishOnOne wrote:
TFL's Ike Gaunlet test of the Rivian pulling a small trailer exposed the poor performance of the batteries capacity which the take away was
electric trucks are not ready to replace ICE trucks anytime soon.

For the narrow specific use of towing a large frontal area trailer up hills and long distance, Yes.

Plenty never tow anything ever.

Ummmm we are on the TOWING FORUM RIGHT? I am sure there is another forum somewhere to talk about commuter/grocery getter vehicles.

I don’t know. Lots of people with half tons tow RV’s around here. Most never go more than a couple hours from home because they have to be back at work on Monday. Long haul heavy towing will stay in the realm of gas and diesel vehicles for a few years yet. But many just don’t do that. From personal experience towing with an EV is superior to towing with a gas vehicle. Those who try it will only look forward to the day they switch. We tend to go camping somewhere every week or two with our little trailer and are still amazed how nice of a towing experience it is compared to our previous SUV. To each his own though.

Jmho.

Couple in my extended family rent storage for TT and boat near CG/lake. Their SUV is likely overloaded when they tow TT, but if they go camping twice a month in the summer, less than 150 miles a year. If the E pickup could handle the 2 short tows with TT, 2 with the boat, and the 200 mile round trip home, I could see both their cars could be EVs.