Electric Ford F-150 Lightning's Battery Weighs
Over 1,800 Pounds By Itself
The Drive,
by
Rob Stumpf
Original Article
Posted By: bad-hair,
5/18/2021 6:43:17 PM
The electric Ford F-150 Lightning is being revealed in full tomorrow after years of hype, even though it made a surprise appearance today. The battery-powered pickup will be one of the automaker's most important models ever, and it signals the brand's commitment to EVs by completely transforming the country's best-selling vehicle, full stop. U.S. President Joe Biden toured Ford's Rouge Electric Vehicle plant on Tuesday to get a better understanding of the company's approach to zero-emission cars and trucks, unmasking the F-150 Lightning in the process. CORRECTIONS*
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Folks will rail on about this...how stupid it is and it'll never be viable. But, it's still a free country and if some one wants to throw down cash on one, more power to her. These trucks aren't any more a "threat" than any other market choice. I can remember people squawking about stinky diesels in cars not long ago. Market forces will decide.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 5/18/2021 6:58:22 PM (No. 789872)
This nonsense will be the death of Ford Motor Company.
27 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
JayD 5/18/2021 7:00:30 PM (No. 789876)
I don't understand the interest in vehicles that take so long to "fill up" (charge), and that have questionable cold weather efficiency. Just hope you don't run out of charge before you get home or you have a long wait before you get back on the road again.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/18/2021 7:05:07 PM (No. 789881)
Ford is going to suffer bigly over this really dumb move since the F-150 is the only good vehicle they make. Chevy and Dodge had better beef up their sales forces.
23 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
less is more 5/18/2021 7:07:40 PM (No. 789883)
Think the infrastructure (roads and bridges) needs repair? Wait until these elephantine electric vehicles get all over the roads.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 5/18/2021 7:17:30 PM (No. 789894)
I'll never own an electric anything. My golf cart is gasoline powered. You couldn't give me a stupid electric truck.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Tusker 5/18/2021 7:22:23 PM (No. 789897)
The dirty little secret: How much to replace the battery on ANY if these jokes?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Bazi 5/18/2021 7:25:23 PM (No. 789900)
It’s called Lightning because charging the battery is lightning fast ?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Videodrone 5/18/2021 7:33:45 PM (No. 789903)
To me, a truck is a working tool that goes off road, crosses streams, hauls loads and gets dinged as it works - a 5.5' bed? Low ground clearance?
I'll keep fixing my 22 year old manual transmission 4wd Silverado and get the job done.
I have to wonder about what this means for Shelby? (the 2020 GT500 will do 0-100-0 in 10.8 seconds in a bit over 800')
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
seamusm 5/18/2021 7:37:31 PM (No. 789905)
Buy an Edsel anyone?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
deerejon 5/18/2021 7:39:43 PM (No. 789907)
Post#8 It will probably take a lightning bolt to charge it.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
keep_right 5/18/2021 7:42:01 PM (No. 789910)
Just fell more in love with our 2005 diesel crew cab Silverado truck - long bed & dually. Just invested in new tires. Will drive it as long as we can!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/18/2021 7:42:35 PM (No. 789912)
Where is all that charging going to come from? And at what cost? What happens to those electric batteries, if the vehicle is wrecked? How often does the battery have to be replace, and at what cost? At 9000 plus pounds, how long will a set of tires last, and what do they cost? What is the 5 year cost of ownership of this vehicle? Where do you park a 9000 pound vehicle?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 5/18/2021 7:42:45 PM (No. 789913)
I'll be interested in seeing the sales figures for this monstrosity. They'll probably make the Edsel look like a success.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Miceal 5/18/2021 7:43:41 PM (No. 789914)
Ah....NO thanks.
5 people like this.
They ruined the Mustang might as well kill the F150.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
LarryK 5/18/2021 8:14:08 PM (No. 789924)
Could this be Ford’s “New Coke” moment?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Venturer 5/18/2021 8:31:38 PM (No. 789928)
The F-150 is a half ton pick up.
It's a half ton pick up with and 3/4 ton battery.
They have to put a 3/4 ton frame and springs under it, just to get it on the road.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 5/18/2021 8:42:26 PM (No. 789935)
Does the government want to hold the mortgage for these trucks? Only drug dealers and crooked politicians can afford an EV and the battery to go with it and the charging apparatus to go with it, plus any and all adapters to go along with those should you travel beyond your regular charging stations. The biggest drawback after the price is the mattert of where the electricity will come from. Fossil fuel, as any idiot can explain.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
clipped wings 5/18/2021 8:52:23 PM (No. 789947)
There are still rural country bridges that won’t carry a 9000 pound vehicle. Think!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
hershey 5/18/2021 9:18:41 PM (No. 789965)
Was that the one I saw Slo Jo the Groper driving on news today? Probably one of those with dual controls so the passenger could do the driving...
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
IdSpud 5/18/2021 9:45:15 PM (No. 789985)
FTA. "a tire option specifically selected for its lower rolling resistance to provide maximum range. ." That will do real well off road. Except for the city cowboys who want to look cool, most folks I know have trucks as WORK vehicles. Electric batteries just won't cut it. Also, do some research on the costs and economic impact of manufacturing those batteries. The manufacture of these batteries is more hazardous to the environment than gas engines. DUMB!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
navybrat 5/18/2021 10:09:03 PM (No. 789999)
I heard the cost of the electric Ford truck starts at approximately $70,000. Buy two.
5 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
texaspast 5/18/2021 10:29:58 PM (No. 790010)
I thought the same thing as OP - the value of my 2018 F-150 just went up. And they already hold their value quite well. This electric monstrosity will be sold to city and county fleets and not many individuals. The government organizations are the only ones who will have the down time to charge these suckers! Not me. [And I should have kept the 2014 I traded for the 2018 - I seriously HATE that auto-cutoff when you stop at a red light.]
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Newtsche 5/18/2021 11:37:36 PM (No. 790042)
We need to work on harnessing the energy of burning electric vehicles.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
web 5/18/2021 11:56:18 PM (No. 790051)
I don't even buy an electric lawnmower or weed wacker because I get tired of messing with batteries. They won't hold a charge. Take too long to charge. Cost way too much. Also have two gas mowers and gave up on them because the carburators always need maintenance. Nope, I'll just deal with dragging around an electric cord and know it will always start when I want, it keeps running, and when I unplug it there's nothing left to do.
If these idiots are successful in forcing electric vehicles on all of us, where do they imagine we are going to find all the electricity to charge them? From windmills and solar panels? What do we do out in the sticks or in the winter when the sun don't shine? Freeze to death in our electric vehicle, that doesn't generate enough heat to run a heater when we drive through a storm? All these geniuses pushing this stuff back in D.C. and the big cities take cabs, limousines, jet planes everywhere. They don't have a clue about working trucks, the open roads and long distances of the West, and how real working Americans live.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
virbots 5/19/2021 12:54:59 AM (No. 790067)
When the battery of a Prius wears out after about 10 years, the cost of replacing it is more than the car is worth. So it is effectively totaled. Not sure about other hybrids or EVs.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Trigger2 5/19/2021 2:43:16 AM (No. 790091)
And how much does it cost to replace? $25,000? $30,000?
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
franq 5/19/2021 5:43:48 AM (No. 790149)
And worth every ounce! /s
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Now we know why they are predicting the ocean level will rise. Where else are they going to dump all those old batteries?
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
GrandmaP 5/19/2021 8:09:23 AM (No. 790239)
Questions I've never heard answered: Suppose one buys an EV truck and also a home charging station. While the vehicle is charging, what effect does that charge have on the availability of power to run the house AC, heating, hot water etc. inside the house? Will that power be degraded during charge?
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 5/19/2021 8:18:58 AM (No. 790250)
First - They have to be charged by something that someone on the left hates (coal, nuclear etc.)
Second - Wait till they blow chunks and you have to replace all 1,800 pounds of battery! Wow, that will cost as much as the old truck did new!
Third - You will look like you are from CA or NEEEWWWW York City!!! Ewww!!!!
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Hazymac 5/19/2021 8:41:05 AM (No. 790268)
America does not have nearly enough electric power plants to power millions of electric vehicles. Here we see the government fouling the landscape with thousands of windmills and solar farms which are all inefficient and dependent of wind and sun. If we are to run millions of EVs, we need to undertake a crash program of nuclear electrical generation. and rid ourselves of this intermittent energy, which our cannot run on. Otherwise, the much greater demand for power will lead to brownouts and blackouts.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet 5/19/2021 8:58:07 AM (No. 790283)
More chinese crapola. Way to go Joe.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Edgelady 5/19/2021 10:19:18 AM (No. 790404)
I’m wondering (1) how long you have to plug it in to recharge the battery; (2) what will that do to monthly electric Bill; and (3) will a special outlet need to be installed or will a 110 do, or 220? That’s certainly heavier then a 2-ton truck, what will that extra weight do to roads (infrastructure)?
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
DVC 5/19/2021 10:31:19 AM (No. 790417)
#26, if you don't use ethanol-gas in your small engines, the carbs will last for decades. If you leave gasoline with ethanol over the winter, the ethanol attracts water from the air, causes severe corrosion in your carb.
I have cleaned and fixed carbs many, many times before I figured this out. Now we ONLY purchase ethanol-free fuel for all our mowers, power washer, weed whacker, etc and never a problem.
It's another government "improvement" wrecking your stuff. Find a station selling ethanol-free gas, and make sure your small engines never see anything but that and you'll do OK with small gas engines, as everyone did for decades and decades before they started ruining the gasoline by putting 'corn squeezins' into it.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
BigGeorgeTX 5/19/2021 1:52:53 PM (No. 790661)
It should be able to run for an hour or so when hauling a bass boat.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
FunOne 5/19/2021 5:02:08 PM (No. 790855)
How many liberals are F-150 customers? I doubt that truck ownership is more than 5%
Liberals--who are proud of the "clean" electric powered vehicles, but don't want to accept that about 35% of the electricity that recharges those batteries comes from--COAL ! ! !
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Gotta want about 5 of them on my ranch. That diesel's getting expensive these days. and the extra weight will give them more traction in the mud. U kidding me Ford ? The price of used 6 cylinder pickups just doubled.