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Cross Country in a F-150 Lightning

wegasque

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Interesting blog post by a guy at Diamondback Covers that wrote about the experience of taking a Lightning cross-country. Bottom line - great if kept within 100 miles of your home base. Stick with ICE for now.

 

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Interesting blog post by a guy at Diamondback Covers that wrote about the experience of taking a Lightning cross-country. Bottom line - great if kept within 100 miles of your home base. Stick with ICE for now.

Yea, I can't see spending the money on something is going to be relagated to an around town runabout. If I'm spending 70 grand, better be able to at least take it on a road trip.
 

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While it's interesting to see someone go out and "see what happens" on an EV road trip, the result is fairly predictable. If I were considering a road trip in an EV, I'd be doing some serious planning ahead. I imagine most EV owners do the same.

I've never done this before, but this post got me thinking about a commute I do between our home in Texas and lake cabin in Michigan a few times per year. I used evnavigation.com, a website I discovered via quick Google search. According to the site, I'd have 7 stops for charging along this 1200-mile journey, with a total of 5 hours of charging time (longest stop = 55 min at a Walmart).

We're obviously a long way from parity between gas/diesel and charging stations, but the latter have made surprising strides in just a few years' time. A long trip is "doable" with planning and certain expectations, but not practical if frequent or when towing. The bright side: This will only get better!
 

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The infrastructure is going to get there, but not overnight.

That being said, once Telsa opens their network to non-Tesla's, which they are slowing doing, I might be inclined to go with an EV truck in the near future. If you watch trips like these conducted with Tesla's vs Non-Teslas, you know what I mean.
 

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You have to start with something that will drive the infrastructure - right now EV trucks are for people that use them as daily drivers/family haulers/go get 2x4 from Lowe's twice a year so I need a truck, also seems viable options for working contracting jobs in construction. When ICE cars showed up years ago, there was no gas stations at every corner either...
 

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The range is degrading everyday since the battery was assembled. After a few years of ownership you'll be afraid to make a 50 mile round trip. But then you can just dump it on some poor sap who'll be on the hook for a $10,000 battery
 

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