I own one, and my experience disagrees with your conjecture.
Comment on Ford ends F-150 Lightning production, starts battery storage business
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Large, heavy electric vehicles don’t make a lot of sense. The F-150 lightning was a neat idea, but smaller EVs make far more sense for personal vehicles.
Electric vans would be much better as a work vehicle.
Electric work trucks aren’t ready yet.
Floon@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
That torque though
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Lots of people need a truck, not a van. You can’t haul a couple cubic yards of top soil or gravel in a van. I see dozens of Lightnings in my area.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 days ago
This is a common argument, but the vast majority of people at home do not carry gravel or sand on a weekly basis. What they need is a rental truck for those items. The cost of 100k is ludicrous. Comparing to a rental truck you would need to be carrying raw material like that on average 2x a week to even break even with the payments.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
I’m talking about contractors, trades people and people who do this for a living.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
For that you use a $1500 trailer. The bizarre justifications for pickups are hilarious.
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 days ago
Quite the contrary, the Lightning makes an excellent work truck for those who actually need work trucks. I know a couple people who use them that way. One of them owns a boat dealership and uses it for towing large and heavy boats every day. The other owns a construction business.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Cough.bullshit.cough.
Yes, an F150 lighning can haul a boat, no, not very far, and half that distance in cold weather.
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 days ago
Who said it was going very far? He tows them back and forth from the Marina to other water bodies in the local area or to customers’ homes.
spit_evil_olive_tips@beehaw.org 1 day ago
yeah…no
the non-electric F-150 has multiple bed lengths (5.5’, 6.5’, and 8’)
the Lightning only offered the 5.5’ “short bed” length
if you actually need a work truck, the Lightning is deficient in the #1 thing that makes a work truck a work truck.
for another comparison - the “short bed” option on the F-250 is 6.75’ long, in addition to the 8’ “long bed”.
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 day ago
yeah…no
The “#1 thing” depends on the application. It can be power, towing capacity, payload capacity, just a bed in general, the massive amount of electrical power available to power tools, cost of ownership, etc. etc.