2022 Ford F-150 Lightning Review // Almost A Game Changer 

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@@colinf.7314 No one beats jeremy james and richard

I agree raitis rides reviews are just cosmetic based and for preschoolers & housewives, supercar blondie is cool but I can't cant afford any of those ,Doug's cool lolol but he's always this This THis THIs THIS THIS SWEATY...THESE GUYS ARE Doug good wit a bromance twist should be named keeping up with James and thomas

@@crescentshane2127 no, but these guys are great.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Love how they always do little things like that to see if we catch it

100% 🤣🤣🤣😎

I legit laughed out loud 😂😭😭

I laughed and kept repeating that part 😂😂😂

yes!!

Some parts are built tougher than you want them to be

Same!

100%. The front lightbar as a whole looks really cheap to me, like someone just got some square acrylic and stuck it to the front

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Saving a ton of money. 😂

@@markspoor4663 We still charge like $200 for delivery but whereas before it cost us like $100 in gas or more with a uHaul, we just charge for free at the local Ford dealership and make deliveries

ICE trucks also suffer a massive range hit when towing. Physics doesn't care about how you're making the car go. We just don't care, measure, or talk about it because there are gas stations everywhere. If you want to say an EV truck isn't the right choice for me now because infrastructure, that's fair. But it's not correct to lose that nuance in the mix.

I agree, however, given the difference in price it is a hard pill to swallow still. If the price of a regular f150 and the lighting where ballpark then this car would have no competition imo.

Most buyers just want the option of hauling to be availible to them. That once in 30 years does it for them.

Even for people that don’t tow or haul the range and lack of infrastructure is a joke.

@@jacobthomas6836 Internal combustion engine. Gasoline or diesel truck

That’s a Larait. There’s still the Platinum trim level of the normal F150

You don’t have to imagine a planet. That’s $100k In Canada about $77k in the U.S. and there are cheaper options.

People have been spending that kind of money on F150s for years. You don't have to though, the base model is 39k. Sure the dealers are gouging the hell out of people but that's not unique, car dealers of every brand are scum.

@@davewood406 it's gonna be hard to get the base "Pro" model. Just like in 2020 when they released the new Explorer design, I couldn't find a base model anywhere, just a bunch of XLTs.

@@tungaabayarmaa gonna bet the “pro” trim will be priority for fleet sales. You might be able to order one but the customer buying dozens or whatever will probably be ahead of you in line.

But so bad Ford ignored Elon's genius and there is no fart machine. 🥺

Props for the front trim and bonnet alignment...

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Unfortunately there’s some bs law that if a dealer already sells the model the manufacturer can’t sell the same model direct. I hope I am wrong, but am enthusiastic about Ford’s trajectory. Imagine walking onto a lot and paying msrp without the B.S.! Like any other place of business….. I almost can’t.

@@kanon0853 I hope Ford stops selling these to dealers then and just do direct to consumers

So you think Ford is going to deliver straight to your driveway?

@@ismaelcarrillo3956 Um. No. But neither does Tesla, and they also do direct to consumer sales. But you knew that.

It's a large station wagon. Useless as a truck! 😩

Lol when you cite the big screen as a distinctive feature of your truck I know you don't actually need a truck

Because he likes the big screen it means he doesn’t need a truck??? Oooook haha.

If anything you think “truck guys” would love the oversized screen as they like everything uselessly oversized on their trucks to compensate for their lack of personality and trouser size 😂

Forget that it's a truck. It's super practical and comfortable as a commuter vehicle, without the inefficiently penalty of a typical truck, and competitively priced in the EV market. I'd bet a ton of people shopping for EVs would take this over anything in the Tesla lineup at a comparable price.

Driving around talking on radios in a previous video... I guess it's no coincidence Chris Harris just spent some time with them. 🙂

Well if you are going to rip off a TV show for content, you may as well rip off a massively popular one.

High prices is not price gouging.

@@brettsittloh2406 it is when it’s being out at 100k +

@@brettsittloh2406 It literally is. When GM lost the $7,500 tax credit, the Bolt suddenly got a lot cheaper.

@@Sheltur_0311 All BEVs are like 20% more expensive then a comp gas ICE vehicle as it's the cost of batteries... Which you can get a Lighting at $46K whic h is still cheaper then the compeors for the same range with more features then a Gas F150. So what are you even talking about?

It's not passed yet

Exactly. Either they are extremely well off or they just going straight into debt

@@Mast3rShan31 Not everyone is in debt.

@@WorldwideDarts Yeah, not everyone spends more than they earn

@@WorldwideDarts 90 percent of people are in debt lol

They are going into debt.

@DOGS LOL ????

@DOGS LOL even at 9mpg while towing, a gas f150 will get double the range, and have 3/4 the refueling time

Yeah for towing its not great. 99% of the truck use around here is grocery getting and commuting though which this would be perfect for.

@@zguy95135 not great?? It's catastrophic.

@@cwx8 I was being generous lol.

I can't understand how this got out of assembly and then given to the press like this. If the two journalists don't point it out during the video, they're not doing their job.

I see many brand new cars driving around with such defects. Tells you a lot about quality and customer care nowadays.

yeah bro throws me off, i saw ur comment and i was like oh yeah its pretty annoying :(

That whole area is a mess.

@@rodneylanders2609 fr

@@rodneylanders2609 I couldn't agree more. The styling used here is just off.

One of many misaligned things on this vehicle.

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This was my thought. Batteries are a good source of weight to balance ride stability. Having a flat-bed with a battery underneath the bed, the added capacity of additional cells would far out-weigh the additional weight of the flat-bed's battery. And it could even be a "smart" bed. You can control tilt, a rear-camera, ride-height all from inside the cab of the truck. Or hey, if we REALY want to get crazy... Have an additional motor on the rear of the flat-bed. Imagine towing but not losing power on an up-hill climb because the flat-bed has a hauling motor? It would also help you get un-stuck.

@@sonnyrodriguez9850 my main concern is the added cost, weight and complexity of the additional motors. If somehow the extra batteries can drive the cars motors or charge the battery, that seems simpler but what do I know.

@@sonnyrodriguez9850 but why tho. Instead of trying to make ev work you can just use a ice without all those complicated expensive things and have very good range without the help of anything for a much cheaper price

That would make since if they make a trailer as a extended battery to the truck when being towed. Though I’m concern with how they will safely secure the connection between during the drive.

Well that would be the most expensive farm truck ever! Farmers don't have money lol.........

@@willrector9716 How often are you towing even 5klbs? Chances are not more than 150mi per day. Sure fossil fuel is easier, but logically it's not that out of the scope of reality.

@@jaybomb5022 i actually tow between 7k and 19k...... all the time and i own a garm so i can yell you it is not a reality at all...... now an electric side by side would be suoer handy and i eant one... but for trucks, its just not gonna work especially when they are so damn expensive.

But what about us that do tow? 🤷🏽‍♂️

Tell you what, Spanky. You go head and accept the limitations of EV towing. The rest of us will keep our ICE pickup trucks.

@@larrysmith6797 Gas trucks! Fuck electricity those darn leftys and innovation! I want nothing of it! Am I doing it right Larry?

@@larrysmith6797 Why are you so mad bro? This truck isn't for you, big deal. For 95% of people, this is perfect. You can still buy diesel trucks... This is just another option.

@@larrysmith6797 this will just be a trend. ICE’s aren’t going anywhere. There’s not enough cobalt or lithium, etc to produce these things for everyone. They are putting on a show to make some quick money from EV’s. Hell our power grids can barely handle the load on them now. Much less if everyone had EV’s.

@@MrCwilson84 "This is just a trend, my horse drawn carriages aren't going anywhere! What, are they going to have gas stations all over the country? Pfft"

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First thing I thought : "Has it been crashed ?" Many people did not do their jobs properly. From the assembly line to the truck going as it is to be filmed.

It will be a rare collector's item because ev's are a fad

@@Welcometofacsistube as good as this, you mean having the greatest acceleration but not being able to pull a trailer for more than 33 ft without needing to be recharged. Electric vehicles are great but there's a reason they went from Electric back to gasoline 100 years ago. Yeah you can make them better today, but better doesn't mean much. They weren't working with a lot to begin with. As a truck it really doesn't make any sense at all. You need electricity for it to do its job and electricity depletion is an issue on a smaller car. Now you're going to try pulling a trailer with it. It's ridiculous. Even if electric cars take off and make sense for someone driving 20 miles to work and back, or in that case they might want a truck like this one to do it. Even if that were the case, these aren't going to take over the duty of a real truck. They're just not a real truck, they don't have the range to be considered one. Even these two gentlemen at throttle House made that clear. This truck literally couldn't even feel the duty of their old Dodge Ram for one day without falling short. And that's not counting stopping in between to charge it up 3,000 times as the battery keeps dying.

@@ashes2ashes863 angry man, you do realize that this is literally their first attempt to create an electric truck, right? meanwhile the gasoline version has been improved and made changes to for over what, a couple decades? Give this a few more iterations, and it probably wont be any worse than the gasoline version.

@@bp9696 the first attempt with electric vehicles happened over 100 years ago sir. You don't know anything about history. Nor is this the first electric truck that's been anywhere near a production floor. The Hummer beat It by almost a year and the Rivian by more. The Hummers a much more successful truck than this as well even though I don't like the Hummer. The interesting thing is the F-150 is very plain and still costs the same which I find absolutely ridiculous. What are you paying for? You're paying big money for a truck that looks like every other F1 shitty but has nowhere near the range of one and constantly needs to be plugged in, and that's if your not towing with it. Sweet. It's not anger, it's more like disgust because they actually think someone's going to pay $100,000 to drive from one power outlet to another. They really can't figure out why the electric car themes not taking off. You want to hear another interesting fact? I just read an article last night where they interviewed a bunch of people that owned electric vehicles and asked them what their next vehicle will be. The vast majority of them don't want another Electric vehicle. It was literally like 75% of them. Rut row. Everything's a great idea to you actually use it.

@@bp9696 I felt like my response was probably meaner than it should have been. My apologies for that. I just don't think they're going to get much better without the battery technology getting better. And sure the Battery Technology will be getting better but think about all the other things that have to go into it. A lot of the grid systems and a lot of the Cities couldn't support everybody charging a car. There's just a lot of things not going into the detail of this even Beyond the vehicle engineering itself. Meanwhile anything with a diesel or gasoline engine has been made out to be the evildoer despite the fact that they've really over excelled at producing something pretty complicated. It seems like they finally worked it out to the extreme work form it is and now they just want to throw them all away and start over again. I can't even buy reliable battery trimmer for my yard.

Seriously, it was jarring to look at. I'm shocked more people aren't commenting about this. It looks really tacked on and poorly implemented.

It’s rare to see good fits on any Fords.

Thank you for mentioning this. It’s very obvious and hypocritical not to point it out.

Until you have to tow a actual load, or God forbid you live In a cold area and have to tow. This truck is a joke

I can't see anything else. Would someone take delivery of a new car in such a state ?

Quality is job one right? Hahaha

Such a bullshit move by Ford. As soon as they found out that the $7500 EV credit was going to be renewed, they increased the price by $7k across the board on the F150 EV’s.

EVs will kill themselves They are unaffordable rich ppl toys. They are not the future.

Ford is full of scumbags!!!

Ok sure plug your house in the truck for an emergency use. I really doubt it’s gonna have the Ampacity to run everything people are claiming. AC unit, all the household appliances, electric range, hot water heater, electric dryer Ect. Home owners would be better off installing a Full house Generac Generator with load shedding devices.

@@noneofyourbusiness1689 nah

I have solar and I see how energy is used. On an average summer day I'm using around 45kw a day with 2 people and 2,000sqft house. It's not going to last 3 days if you're running the A/C. With just appliances, yes. In the winter time, you'll be using way more energy, so don't expect to run the heater for too long.

Ya no it won't. It'll last a couple hundred miles when propelling the car, but run an entire house for days? 🤣🤣. Ain't no way.

And if you suddenly need to leave, congratulations, you just burned all that range. Hope the chargers along the evacuation route have power and aren't swamped with people who did the same thing. Contrast that with throwing 5 gallons of gas in the bed and having 100 extra miles of range just like that.

It's the best truck! Except you can't drive it very far. Jesus F. Christ.

@@larrysmith6797 Are you dense

Thank you for suffering through those two, I couldn't do it. Doug makes my skin crawl like a discount Quinton Tarantino sucking on toes and MKBHD should stick to phone reviews.

@@bandwagon240 Damn

As long as you don't need to tow anything further than 90 miles.

So you think towing something with this truck and having 80 mile range is a good thing? lol ok

@@jeffschlagel5632 obviously, there are people who need towing vehicles for longer ranges and this vehicle won’t work for them. That’s fine. There are a lot of people who do not tow or only tow short distances, and that means that MrSiah’s comment is correct-this is an incredibly practical utility vehicle for a very large number of people.

@@TheDareD3vil Your comment makes no sense. Even if you tow 10 miles or 20. You have already eaten up such a large range of the truck you probably aren't even in range or a charger. And you do you SERIOUSLY think its efficient to tow 10 miles and wait a hour of more to charge? There is nothing efficient about this truck. If this was a gas truck and full tank would only take you 200 miles no one would buy it. Your narrative if getting in the way of comment sense.

@@bliglum *between charges

It's funny that most of us in the industry see Ford as a flailing missing the mark constantly many times recalled and some of the worst launches of products in their history and you seem to see it as a good thing..nor to mention the dealer practices

@@ubeuonly I have never owned a Ford or was interested in one until the Bronco was released. After a year and a half of ownership, I can tell you the it is keeping its fun factor up like day one but QC is not on par or even in the same conversation as my Porsches or any other foreign import.

@@salarsadri or any car for that matter. The bottom line is the Bronco is less than the sum of its parts and the qualities horrific and the recalls are unbelievable. I work in the service department and is mostly the wives of complain because it's not easy to get in and out of and not very practical for day-to-day use. Yes it's got off-road prowess but fewer than 1% of people use them for that purpose. It's basically a internet social media hyped vehicle that people we're prodded to get excited about because that's how gullible people are. But most people I see are disappointed in how much they had to pay just to buy into the hype

Because you have $100K to throw down , but not $107K.

Yep, I’m sure they’ll figure that kink out…hopefully 😅

6:45

It's a Ford. I've owned 4 Fords, all had poor panel gaps and fit/finish. They can give Tesla a run for their money. (Who are we kidding, Teslas can fit fists in their gaps🤣)

@@acerimmer8338 Americans cars were absolute trash. They still are

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Luxurious interior? 🤔🤨

@@ebubeawachie yes definitely luxurious

It was never affordable, dummy. They haven't made and work trucks and the never made the big battery available in the cheapest model.

@@larrysmith6797 wow coming in hot are ya, well idk if youve looked at the costs of work trucks lately but the base model was on par with base model f250's

What do you expect, all prices are up, inflation 10%, prices rise. Thanks Brandon.

@@racekar80 wow such hostility from you people, forgive me for not being a sheep and expecting ford to produce a product based on the parameters they set themselves, an affordable e.v. truck for the tradesman.

@@jesserhodes7430 If you look at every other truck on sale and especially ev, you would be surprised to know how much more affordable the Lightning is... XD

If you were in the market for a truck, would you also be in the market to spend 90 grand on one?

@@CockatooDude No 😀

@@claesnorell8702 Lol. I will say though that you can get a base model for much less.

@@CockatooDude The Lightning Lariat is only $15k more than the regular Lariat. Now factor in EV rebates and fuel savings over time. Base model Lightings start at $47k, which is now the average price of a new car in the US.

@@CockatooDude Every time you see a comment like this you know the person making it is too lazy to look up how much these things actually cost. You know almost every demo car sent to every car channel is a top line model, right? Wait nevermind, obviously you don't.

As someone who has precisely zero interest in watching that, I wholeheartedly agree. I know there's enough people interested in that sort of thing to justify making it, and dudes like me, who have no interest, wouldn't mind a video being made that's not for us. Full send.

Why don't we talk about range and the hit from towing for an ICE truck? It's because we have gas stations everywhere. EV range is only a concern because the infrastructure isn't there yet in some locations. That's not to say that we shouldn't push for better efficiency or battery technology, those things are valid goals. More that to solve a problem, it's important to understand what that problem actually is.

@@AndrewVanTil m8 you fill up gas in 2 mins the fuck you on about

@@AndrewVanTil You're right, but you have to a) factor in range renewal time and b) type of ICE fuel (ie diesel vs gas). Plus as expensive as electric vehicles are, you have to factor that in too (a 80k electric truck vs a 80k ICE truck). Diesel is still the best for pulling cargo for a reason. Electric does have potential; it's just not there quite yet.

@@cn2673 In general use, I currently spend exactly zero minutes charging my car. So we're already there, assuming you have access to L2 destination charging. It just kind of happens when you're doing other things, and you don't have to think about it, or do anything to make it happen; except plug the car in when you get there. If you compare that to ICE refueling on a general usage pattern, you're spending WAY more time refueling (and let's be honest, three minutes isn't even a realistic target for putting gas in your car). If you're talking about a road trip scenario, then yeah it will take longer if you're trying to do your road trip strike team style. If you're doing it more like the way most people actually travel, the time you spend charging on the road is about the same as the amount of time you spend refueling an ICE car.

@@ElysiumsJourney It depend a lot on how far you're planning to tow, and if there are L2 destination chargers available where you will end up (which is an infrastructure thing). Using an EV properly requires a shift in thinking about refueling. The only time I have to think about, or spend any actual time, refueling my EV is when I drive really far from home. The rest of the time, as long as I plug it in occasionally, it's always ready to go with plenty of energy to get me where I want to go.

The solution and game changer is to get a gas truck. The solution already exists.

Who wants to buy a proprietary trailer for their individual use? And an electric boat trailer would have all sorts of issues.

@@stephenj4937 The same people willing to spend 90k on an electric truck lol

Yep. Going to need revolutionary battery technology....the hilarious part is the government pushing to electric and companies not making v8s and going electric, yet it's not even close to gas vehicles. Stupid mfs

$7,000 :(

My dad still has a reservation so he gets the old price of $43k minus $7500 so $35k for this truck with standard battery

Look at the Ford Mavericks they’re only $21k

Same. Was all set to get my order invite in the next week or so, then saw it get priced out of what I would pay. Literally cheaper to buy a new Mach-E and Maverick than a Lariat. Pro is still somewhat competitive, but I doubt anyone can get one with fleet orders taking all the stock.

@@gregb9264 No he does not sir

100k Canadian, 80k USD, and that's if you want some of the top options and trims, you can get this for 50k, the price isn't bad considering every other ev is even more expensive anyway.

@@raionshishi8290 I stand corrected 👍🏻