I n my Lightning ER, I got down to 5 miles left when working in another town. I briefly stalled until turning lights and heaters and radio off. Was brutal, at -20 F then. I coasted into a level 2 charger at about 3 mph. 😅 Since then, I use the Level 1 plain old plugins at the hotel light poles to keep a little juice going in on those cold days away from home! No further near-stranding, fortunately. Def need better charging in Wisconsin 😡
Thanks...Good to see what to expect at lower average speeds. Country roads around here probably average 45mph. TFLtruck had higher than expected results also. Guessing I should get 250+ for my driving. that is if I ever get to order one. At a decent price also.
Hey thanks for watching! This let me enjoy back road driving even more. Amazing how much range you can get out of these things if you don’t step on it. Yeh hope Ford figures out how to sell these efficiently as how they are built to be.
I had my can am x3 on a trailer and ran mt lariat extended range down to 0% battery, 1 mile range. Limited to 15% battery power. Had to leave it at my buddies and take his 2023 duramax home. Ouch. Lol, I towed almost 200 miles! Wind, 70mph highway speeds. 25degrees farenheit. Now I know my limit. AND the truck didn't just stop. It limped to a plug in, 120v 20 amp. Great video!
Thank you for the informative video. Price of the $.43 per Kwh is high, rate in Pennsylvania (electrify America )is around $.32 per kilowatt hour. It Costs me charging at home $0.165. My platinum is getting less than 2miles/ kWh 😢 in PA winter
Sold the E Transit because it had 116 mile range… anytime I had to relocate it was a joke… had it to 0 miles before and drove 40mph on the shoulder in 114F degree heat and blew through 2 stop signs for 2~ miles to coast into a fast charger on my way to drop it at a place to get sold lol. Talk about range anxiety.
I like to see videos like this that show the other end of the lightning spectrum. So many are show how fast the battery is depleted when towing long distance. Anyone that bought the lightning specifically for that purpose bought the wrong vehicle.
-12 degrees and was on 7 miles. Truck stalled at stoplight for a brief second and got through to the light and to the charger. Never again lol. 1.6 kw/m is what I’m getting during MN winters.
Hey! You could call it 3/4 time. 😁I have been taking care of the kids since my wife’s been busy with her work. I hope to return to full time soon on RU-vid.
Lowest battery level for me is driving 3 miles with both battery and range showing zero. Sadly I’ve driven on zero 4 times. The last one was very stressful as we were on california 395 near Oso junction with elevation gain slowing my Mach E down to 50 mph on tge grade. Never again
This makes me thing there's something wrong with our battery. Our display never says we can go over 200 miles, even the day we received it, and it never gets more than 2.4miles/kw driving in the city. I drive carefully/slow too!
If you have the regen brake setting "on" and still get 2.4 mi/kw at around 60-70 degrees weather, maybe. The condition has to be right. Any temp above or below those, your battery has to work extra hard to maintain those temp. When you go in for your 10,000 mi maintenance, they'll run the diagnostic on your battery. Some dealerships like mine, you have to ask to make sure they do it tho.
What is your secret! I have a new Lariot Lightning normal battery and do not get anywhere close to even a 200-mile range. Two trips about 200 miles round trip required charging on the road. It was almost all freeway, kept the speed at 70. On my recharge overnight at home, 100% charge reads only a 180-mile range
So, what exactly are you doing to get that kind of mileage? So many others I’ve seen are sitting around 2 to 2.2 m/kWh. Your getting over 3. That’s a big difference.
Hi Bob, seems like the 70 degrees is a sweet spot and I’m not stepping it hard. Not doing anything super special. I do ride the regen brake when going down hill. I did forget to mention I have a hard tonneau cover.
Probably will drop, but not as much as you'd think. Probably 5% _at worst_ 10%, since climate control generally uses a lot less energy than moving 3 tons around at unnatural speeds.
Did you have the vehicle set in One Pedal Driving mode during your test drive? It seems you were generating a lot energy during a warm day doing regenerative braking to get that high mileage out of a full charge?
You can’t charge to 100% at home? An hour and a half at a station? What kind of hell is that? Very impressive efficiency though! I wouldn’t explore the top 5% or bottom 5% of the battery even for a test. That’s where battery damage is most likely to happen. Damaged batteries go 🔥. Nice video, though. 👍🏻
Haha thanks. Yes I’m that case study where I can’t charge at home since I live in a townhouse with designated parking spot away from my house. Yeh, I’m done with this test if charging to 100% at CCS. There will be other tests.
Guess my 2 Chevy Volts are doomed. We have been running them full to empty for more than 5 years. Still work like the day they arrived. People always ask what are you going to do when the battery dies on your Volt? I say it dies everyday...nothing?
@@byrnc927 It depends on how much buffer in the battery software, too. Your Volt might be using only 80% of its true capacity and never getting near the top or bottom 5%.
@@willaerley7140 I've heard the lightning actually has a 145 kwh battery in the extended range where the software limits it to 131 kwh. Not sure what the actual kwh the 98 kwh battery is. But everything I've seen with ford says only charge to 100% when absolutely necessary. Recommended 15-80% SOC.
@@EVTruckLOG That's the point. Electric trucks aren't trucks. They currently are just for City Urban Liberal Types who want to feel good about themselves. Real truck users use them for work.
Not so, I drove my platinum for 2 hours straight in the city. No jack rabbit starts, no sudden stops and always used one pedal driving and got 3.3 miles per kwh. At times I saw as much as 3.5 but ended with 3.3. That 432 miles per charge for the ER battery if it stayed consistent which I have no doubt it would have. Just saying if you lived in town and everything you needed was right on your city streets, I believe that's the kind of range you would get. Most of mine is 55 mph roads and average 2.4 miles per kwh. I monitor my charging off my grid meter since my home runs on solar it's easy to see the exact kwh I use to charge my vehicle. Winter months now kwh charge roughly $.085 / kwh that's roughly $.035/mile.
