Ford F-150 Electric

Oak Island is my favorite beach to visit. We typically go there for a week every year.

My RAM is stupid comfortable, and will get around 22-24 on the highway depending on how fast I'm going. Not great, but a lot better than the Tundra got.

I really wouldn't mind an EV for normal around town stuff at all. Could always just rent a car for long trips I suppose.
 
Greasy said:
Oak Island is my favorite beach to visit. We typically go there for a week every year.

My RAM is stupid comfortable, and will get around 22-24 on the highway depending on how fast I'm going. Not great, but a lot better than the Tundra got.

I really wouldn't mind an EV for normal around town stuff at all. Could always just rent a car for long trips I suppose.
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If I remember the post correctly, your Ram is about 40k more than I want to spend too :lol: :heart: Yeah they're a beautiful truck, which brings up the other issue I would have with the Lightening...it's looks. I think it's ugly.

Ford Raptors and Ram styling, especially the TRX and Rebels, pretty much ruined every other truck for me.
 
If my wife wouldn't murder me, I would have a TRX. :lol:

I agree on the new Ford and Chevy trucks. They don't appeal to me in most stock trims, but if you throw some wheels/tires/running bars on them, they aren't bad.
 
Greasy said:
If my wife wouldn't murder me, I would have a TRX. :lol:

I agree on the new Ford and Chevy trucks. They don't appeal to me in most stock trims, but if you throw some wheels/tires/running bars on them, they aren't bad.
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:lol: :lol: If I bought a TRX I would be living out of it :p
 
Well the range is only 300 miles tops, when you tow or haul that's going to get cut in half. These are DOA I think other than folks that want a city truck that's fast.

Now if they give the infotainment center the KIT voice, and let me strobe that giant ass light bar up front red... I may bite.

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Cyko said:
Then…go buy it? I’ll have my future tank, you can have the F-150, and we can all get along just fine without the snobby bs
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Oh **** you ordered one? I can't wait to see the production models. Curious to see what all they change. I would drive the **** out of one of those. Also, as with the f150. Give it the KIT voice, and let me strobe the light bar up front. SOLD. :lol:
 
Greasy said:
Oh **** you ordered one? I can't wait to see the production models. Curious to see what all they change. I would drive the **** out of one of those. Also, as with the f150. Give it the KIT voice, and let me strobe the light bar up front. SOLD. :lol:
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Whoa didn't realize you ordered one!!!!

Cyko, you know they haven't perfected the top mount turrets yet, right?

:bleh:

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They would make great fleet vehicles that you could easily charge onsite while doing work and back at you company HQ. Plus it's simpler than keeping a supply of diesel or gas for such vehicles and it will be cheaper.
 
Greasy said:
He's got that covered I'm sure.
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Turrets? Pshh. Artillery in the bed loaded with ADAM FTW :evil: If that doesn’t work the dual flamethrowers off a pair of M132’s will finish the job :lol:
 
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Was bored checked out Marques Brownlee's video on the truck and the 300 mile range is with 1000lbs of stuff in it. According to him if there's nothing in it then the range is closer to 360 (this is the model with the bigger battery). What got me is there's a drain hole in the frunk (which can supposedly hold two golf bags) so you could dump a whole bunch of ice into a section of it and use it as a cooler.

Anyways I can't picture myself parking something this big.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2npVg9ONFo

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That range, loaded yet, is pretty impressive. So props for that, but I can't get past the looks. The Cyber truck is ugly too, but at least it tries for something radically different.

If I'm plonking down north of 40 grand I want it to at least look decent.
 
dodger said:
Was bored checked out Marques Brownlee's video on the truck and the 300 mile range is with 1000lbs of stuff in it. According to him if there's nothing in it then the range is closer to 360 (this is the model with the bigger battery). What got me is there's a drain hole in the frunk (which can supposedly hold two golf bags) so you could dump a whole bunch of ice into a section of it and use it as a cooler.

Anyways I can't picture myself parking something this big.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2npVg9ONFo

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That power inverter function is pretty sweet. Now if they are used as fleet trucks, you could can send out another truck to charge it up enough to get back. Which sounds like not a big deal at first, but this is the sorta thing you would do in an out of gas situation. So that's pretty awesome imho. You could also use this truck to rescue any other EV fleet vehicle the same way.
 
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That power inverter function is pretty sweet. Now if they are used as fleet trucks, you could can send out another truck to charge it up enough to get back. Which sounds like not a big deal at first, but this is the sorta thing you would do in an out of gas situation. So that's pretty awesome imho. You could also use this truck to rescue any other EV fleet vehicle the same way.
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Can power the house for a couple days

I'm already invested in a lot of batteries/inverters/solar/generators - it would be sweet to just plug the truck in to a transfer switch during blackouts or hook up to it while out camping
 
curio said:
Can power the house for a couple days

I'm already invested in a lot of batteries/inverters/solar/generators - it would be sweet to just plug the truck in to a transfer switch during blackouts or hook up to it while out camping
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Now that would be nice, really nice. :up:
 
I saw the MB review and he did a good job of explaining stuff. I quite like the truck. Definitely much more practical than a Cyber truck. However, buying a first gen EV is not for faint of heart.
 
The video seems to have gotten quite a bit of press on the range assumption. Until Ford comes out with official specs on the battery I'd take it with a grain of salt. Its a preproduction unit that has really only seen parking lots on press events so the computer thinks it'll never face wind resistence. Folk have been doing napkin calculations based on the 44min fast charge to 80% and while 300 is certainly doable unloaded the math doesn't seem to come close to the bigger numbers in the video. While Ford may have good reason to underestimate the range I doubt they'd be that wildly off.

We really need to settle on a single charging connector so builders can start building homes with these bi-directional chargers as a standard option. Even if you don't have solar an EV could still let you play on-peak/off peak arbitrage with whatever capacity you didn't use driving as well as serve as whole house battery backup.
 
All new houses have to have 220 charging ports in them in my county now. I found that interesting considering there isn't a standard out now for chargers. Buddy of mine is building a new house now, so I will get to see first hand what this new requirement actually is. I'm guessing they just require a dedicated 220V run into the garage somewhere.
 
It's usually just a dedicated line to a garage. Which isn't a hard thing to do. Already use 220V/240V for Kitchen and Laundry Room appliances.
 
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