Lightning Mike - Winter Road Test - Part 2 - TX to CO - Can it go 245 mi on 1 charge? 

That’s funny Marc :-)

Glad it was helpful! Thank you for watching.

Thank you Brandon. Yeah I will definitely be happy when my adapter arrives so I can not sweat so much.

Awesome, howdy neighbor! Yeah I hear that from several XLT trim owners. BlueCruise is the main thing they wish they had different.

Yeah that’s what I realized, basically it is the same cost to travel with electric vs. gas. The way to save a little money though would be to charge as much as possible at hotels. Really though to charge up from say 20% to 100% at a hotel it will take about 17 hours. So you would need to get to a hotel by 4pm then let it charge till 9am and get back on the road. So it may not be as feasible unless you charge at a fast charger to get it to 50% then charge the rest of the way at a hotel.

Great video by the way! This was awesome 🎉

Thank you. And yes I have the pass.

Thanks for watching yeah it’s a little crazy. I think going 50 really helped me. No Ford doesn’t have the option to precondition the battery manually that I’ve found.

It seemed you were getting good charging speeds without preconditioning, is that because it was almost 70 degrees out I’d it common even when it’s cold outside to charge quickly Asher driving long distances?

Yeah I think it has to do with temperature. When I have charged below freezing it has been around 120kw

Yeah that would be nice. Ford is licensing tech from CATL, but it’s a LFP battery. So maybe the SHENXING will be in the future.

I'm wondering like if you want to replace the batteries in the future of they'll be able to use the newer batteries.

Good question. I’m not sure.

Nope, none at all. I was definitely taking a risk. :-)

That’s funny! I actually halfway thought about seeing how far I could stretch it since I still had 11 % left :-) I did have ac and heat turn off most of the time. Just blowing outside air in.

Hi John, no problem contacting me on the comments. I actually try to respond to as many as I can so right now I don’t have a better way to contact me, but I am working on that. To answer your question I say right now the 2023 platinum is a good choice, and you can probably get a pretty good deal on it. I’ve seen them with almost 25K off of MSRP just know with the platinum that you are NOT getting the federal tax credit because it has an MSRP over 80 K. I do like the lariat extended range that I have but I have heard that the platinum seats are even better, and you will probably get a better deal on the platinum than I did on my lariat. Saying all that to say, I do not have any reason to tell you not to get it. I have a couple of pieces of advice and that is to be aware that the heavyweight of the truck is harder on tires so you have to add more air to compensate for it meaning I had tires that had a recommended PSI of 36 and I should have kept 42 in them. Just in case you need a good place to look to compare deals look on the Facebook group called “No Markup Fords”. There are several dealers on there all over the nation that are posting some of their best deals. It’s not just for lightning. It’s for any Ford so you will see a variety of posts.

Also, if you haven’t seen it yet you can get more information from my one year 26,000 mile review video. Now I have 33,000 and I’m still loving it. I’m curious if it’s gonna get the same amount of miles that your 2013 raptor has on it that would be a great video to do :-) 1 year - 26k mile - Review - Ford Lightning ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YZ-jeEzpk0w.html

Very cool. Thanks for getting back to me. I really appreciate the feedback. And your site helped me when doing research on the Ford EV'S.

Awesome. Let me know if you have anymore questions.