F-150 Lightning Goes to Work as a Farm Truck (Car and Driver)

I use my Lightning as a work truck daily in the agriculture industry so I read this intently with hope it would provide new insights , but no . I’ll sum it up for everyone here
- Author lists reasons for wanting lightning
- gets smirk for having a frunk
- multiple paragraphs about not having a charger at home since it’s a review truck
- lightning isn’t good at towing distance ( it isn’t ! ) .

ChrisCon said:

I use my Lightning as a work truck daily in the agriculture industry so I read this intently with hope it would provide new insights , but no . I’ll sum it up for everyone here
- Author lists reasons for wanting lightning
- gets smirk for having a drunk
- multiple paragraphs about not having a charger at home since it’s a review truck
- lightning isn’t good at towing distance ( it isn’t ! ) .

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Seemed strange to me that Car and Driver would have an article like this without springing for a charger. Agree there’s nothing new and I was looking for some good insights too.

If they provided a charger then the article wouldn't be that long apparently. I guess we can be happy they didn’t run it out of charge in the field, take pictures of trying to push it home, then complain about using their tractor to tow it home.

We use our lightning on a hobby farm here in Illinois. It tows our compact tractor to the service center no problem at about 1.4mi/kwh loaded and 1.8mi/kwh unloaded in the 25f evenings for a 75 mile round trip. 2 round bales of hay at 120 miles plenty fine. Delivering flowers in the frunk is quite a fun thing for customers that I need to start coming up with better reasons why the engine is missing.

To ChrisCon' point on towing, yeah when I think of long distance... I'd rather use the gas silverado we have for fetching livestock out of state.

This week we will be attempting a vehicle tow for 270 miles so time to adventure!