Electric F-150 loses 25% of range with full payload, AAA study finds, gas version can drive 200 miles farther
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Wonder how it does on hills.
Lose 75% I bet.
or the cold winter in Montana.
Park it until spring.
Good question. To answer this have the Ford F-150 Lightening tow a trailer on I-70 over the front range of the Rockies, and use US 6 when it gets to the tunnels.
I ve been up that hill with my f-250 with 460 engine. Back in the old days.
I didn't even notice it......
My plow truck is an ‘89 250 with the 460. Loooovvveee it. Never an issue regardless of temps and how much snow...except for making sure there’s enough ballast to keep the tires with traction.
Mine was an 87, I wish I still had it.
Great truck.
It is very noticeable while leaving Denver in a 18-wheeler with a super heavy load.
I'm guessing you could pass the electric version with no problem.
They might need to add an extra slow lane.
people have to be shown that electric sucks. good in theory, awful in execution.
the biggest push by them to get everybody hooked up to the grid, is not about "going green" or saving the planet...it's about eventual CONTROL they will have over every part of our lives.
the ability to turn things on & off REMOTELY is what they are after.
that's all they've ever cared about. CONTROL.
DUH the point is to keep ppl at home.
In the DDR [Communist East Germany] travel was limited by regulation.
Now travel is inherently limited by constraints of the vehicle itself, and ppl still buy them ??
DUHHHHHHHHHH!
A majority of these folks who by trucks these days don’t tow shit let alone put anything in the bed.
Exactly
True, they don't use it every day.
But a lot of them pull campers or speed boats or whatever on the weekends.
Nothing wrong with having extra power.
It's pretty much the American way.
Well the point is to force everyone to have an electric vehicle!
That's been like this all my life and I'm 56. Kill a deer put it in the truck bed, taking off trash in truck bed (everyone doesn't have trash pickup service). We have a trailer to pull behind truck when we are hauling more than will fit in the bed. Just about every man I know owns a truck and uses it. Sure they like the look but it's very functional when you need more than a car or SUV. We have always had a truck except that time hubby thought a jeep would be cool. We have had Chevy, Toyota and Ford. The F150 is the most comfortable truck I've been in. It's paid for so will have it for a long while.
Isn't that the way of all methods of transportation? They require more energy when a load is put on them. Same is true for all energy driven devices. If Tesla had been fully funded instead of "canceled", we might very well have been running around in flying machines that run on "energy" pulled from the aether. Then we could be studying how much drain the Earth could withstand before the "circuit" overloaded. As well as if there were more sources like the Earth in the cosmos.
True, but the main flaw of the electric car or truck is that the battery powers everything while a conventional car or truck only has the battery power the starter, lights, computer, and radio while gas takes care of the engine.
Also the battery is as high as $20,000.
You could have a nice used gas guzzler sedan, for that amount, right off the rental lot.
It still requires more fuel to move loads than when it is "empty". A hill adds load when uphill and lessens it downhill. Against the wind or with it. When it runs out of whatever fuel you have to add more. The electrical parts of the car facilitate the engines to run efficiently. Safely. The same principle applies to every system. Including you, me and everyone else. That the range of a combustion system requires X amount of fuel to travel the same distance, the difference is in the efficiency gap between hrdro-carbons and current battery tech. The hybrid system is far superior to both alone. I would still prefer that energy was transmitted just as other wavelengths of frequency waves are for everything wireless. "Tooling" around in my flying car has been sort of a dream since I first watched the Jetsons.
That is true, but in most conventional vehicles, the battery is separate from the engine while a electric car has the battery power the engine.
and the battery recharges from the alternator as you drive.
Plus there is no need to seek out a charger like on an electric car or truck. Of course, you do need a gas station now and then, but I could fill 100 gas guzzlers for the time it takes me to charge one electric car.
Any gas vehicle will lose range with a full load. I lose range with 4 passengers instead of just myself. I don't get it. Hauling loads of extra weight isn't free in a gas car or truck.