Pics of Lightning Trucks Doing Truck Things. Post Yours! 📸

[astricklin]

I didn’t realize I had been duped into an electric truck with what I consider the most important range calculating device removed until I was home looking for it after I got home from the dealer. It still annoys me every time that I put weight in the bed! I have yet to tow anything but am considering a Weight Safe hitch to at least try and compensate for the loss of the smart hitch. @Ford Motor Company really pulled a slick one when you had to click the check mark to remove the scales when every other check mark was selecting an additional option to be installed on the truck. It’s something I won’t forget the next time I buy a vehicle! ?

I don't know if anyone has figured out how much of the system is or isn't installed on the vehicle. Looking at posts on the ice forum it didn't seem likely that it can be added after, but I don't think anyone has really dug into it for the lightning

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[USA EV]

I didn’t realize I had been duped into an electric truck with what I consider the most important range calculating device removed until I was home looking for it after I got home from the dealer. It still annoys me every time that I put weight in the bed! I have yet to tow anything but am considering a Weight Safe hitch to at least try and compensate for the loss of the smart hitch. @Ford Motor Company really pulled a slick one when you had to click the check mark to remove the scales when every other check mark was selecting an additional option to be installed on the truck. It’s something I won’t forget the next time I buy a vehicle! ?

If it makes you feel any better it wasn't optional. It was a forced removal. Dealer couldn't submit the order without this removal. No removal, no truck.

Also at least this way Ford doesn't know how many times you've overloaded your truck... ?

 

[davehu]

Yes .. I did and it is really nice. I thought that makes the wait longer?

Mine was also built on 2/5 but sent over to get a spray in bedliner, and I'm still waiting. tracer still show "in production 2/5" Don't know what happened but I am still without a truck.

 

[astricklin]

Mine was also built on 2/5 but sent over to get a spray in bedliner, and I'm still waiting. tracer still show "in production 2/5" Don't know what happened but I am still without a truck.

I'm in the same status and I don't have the bedliner. At this point, I'm kinda ok if it doesnt show up till Aug/Sept because I can sort of some things and probably pay for the truck in full by then.

 

[USA EV]

I didn’t realize I had been duped into an electric truck with what I consider the most important range calculating device removed until I was home looking for it after I got home from the dealer. It still annoys me every time that I put weight in the bed! I have yet to tow anything but am considering a Weight Safe hitch to at least try and compensate for the loss of the smart hitch. @Ford Motor Company really pulled a slick one when you had to click the check mark to remove the scales when every other check mark was selecting an additional option to be installed on the truck. It’s something I won’t forget the next time I buy a vehicle! ?

Also, FWIW weight doesn't impact range nearly as much as aerodynamics, assuming fairly level travel.

 

[Peddyr]

Damn it, I had 30 bags of mulch and ten 2x4x8's in my bed this weekend and didn't take a picture. I'll need more next weekend or the weekend after, so I'll be sure to snap a picture.

 

[ChrisC]

Damn it, I had 30 bags of mulch and ten 2x4x8's in my bed this weekend and didn't take a picture. I'll need more next weekend or the weekend after, so I'll be sure to snap a picture.

Home Depot has a sale on garden soil so I loaded up with 72 bags! I had the box with the bed cover in the back so I had to put some in the frunk. The guy helping me was shocked when I told him there was more room in the front and then I popped the hood. The look on his face was hilarious. I am glad that the Lightning looks like a regular F150 to most people. I feel like I have a secret hiding place

 

[luebri]

Home Depot has a sale on garden soil so I loaded up with 72 bags! I had the box with the bed cover in the back so I had to put some in the frunk. The guy helping me was shocked when I told him there was more room in the front and then I popped the hood. The look on his face was hilarious. I am glad that the Lightning looks like a regular F150 to most people. I feel like I have a secret hiding place

There’s a few ways to do this soil hauling thing! My dad and I are working on planting more grass at my new house. 1.25 acres, we did half last year. More in process this year. He has extra topsoil from a construction project. Using his dump trailer I pushed “sparky” pretty hard today!!!

- 4 yards per trip (~8500. Lbs)
- 6 trips
- 20 mile round trip (120 miles total, 1/2 fully loaded, 1/2 empty)
- averaged between 1.1 and 1.2 mostly at 60mph
- temps in the mid to high 80’s
- started at ~85% finished at 10%, with a brief mid day 30 minute charge session on my 80 amp FCSP which luckily reached far enough out my garage that I did not have to disconnect the trailer on my way thru the driveway into the back yard.
- my dad has an e-torque 5.7 ram he loves and raves about how it tows, but he is not an ev believer so he was doubting the Lightning’s capabilities but it handled it with no problem, but as we all know towing just eats the kilowatts like PAC Man so he was giving me a hard time about that.

 

[USA EV]

An 86" sofa fits, no problem...

A used pedal boat was a bit tighter...

 

[luebri]

There’s a few ways to do this soil hauling thing! My dad and I are working on planting more grass at my new house. 1.25 acres, we did half last year. More in process this year. He has extra topsoil from a construction project. Using his dump trailer I pushed “sparky” pretty hard today!!!

- 4 yards per trip (~8500. Lbs)
- 6 trips
- 20 mile round trip (120 miles total, 1/2 fully loaded, 1/2 empty)
- averaged between 1.1 and 1.2 mostly at 60mph
- temps in the mid to high 80’s
- started at ~85% finished at 10%, with a brief mid day 30 minute charge session on my 80 amp FCSP which luckily reached far enough out my garage that I did not have to disconnect the trailer on my way thru the driveway into the back yard.
- my dad has an e-torque 5.7 ram he loves and raves about how it tows, but he is not an ev believer so he was doubting the Lightning’s capabilities but it handled it with no problem, but as we all know towing just eats the kilowatts like PAC Man so he was giving me a hard time about that.

Got the dirt spread, seeded and straw down today, could really use some rain though! The sprinklers are struggling to keep up with this rare early summer dry spell we got working in the upper midwest right now.

 

[GoodSam]

- averaged between 1.1 and 1.2 mostly at 60mph

So if you are paying $0.10/kWh = 1.1mi/kWh, and the Ram 5.7 e-torque gets 15? mpg doing the same towing, with gas at $3/gal, you are getting 33 equivalent-mpg. That has to count for some ++++s on your side, right?

 

[USA EV]

Towing a cute little electric airport baggage Tug. Dirth of real rapid chargers in Northern Indiana made for a late night.

1.3 mi/KWH on average at 55 MPH and below.

 

[luebri]

So if you are paying $0.10/kWh = 1.1mi/kWh, and the Ram 5.7 e-torque gets 15? mpg doing the same towing, with gas at $3/gal, you are getting 33 equivalent-mpg. That has to count for some ++++s on your side, right?

Yep, your numbers are probably even a little conservative since I pay $0.07/kWh (night and weekends) and his e-torque is probably a little under 15 while towing. So definitely a win in the cost per miles.

That said he is looking at it from a perspective of someone that works his trucks hard and since it cant go all day without a significant interruption it's not a "real truck". In my case the missing part of the equation to make all day towing for this job attainable was a nearby 150kW charger which are non existent in my area. Even the closest Tesla Supercharger would have been a 1.5 hour delay to detour and charge.

 

[ullearn]

An 86" sofa fits, no problem... A used pedal boat was a bit tighter...

Oh interesting I didn't realize the base tailgate had the work clamp slot as well.

 

[MTcowpoke]

This is my Lightning the 5th day I've had it. It's towing a 30ft Avion trailer that weighs about 6k, and it tows with ease. I've just covered about 20 miles of gravel road to an event for youth on range land plants and soils. Mud flaps are ordered and needed as you can see. The truck has a little over 400 miles in the picture and I think it's exactly what I hoped it would be. I put about 50 to 75 miles a day on with lots of stop and go, in and out doing cattle ranching related things.

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