****ing Retarded.
F-150 Lightning Review: Road Trips=Kryptonite.
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****ing Retarded.
To which the New “Lightning” is a ****ing disgrace..
Called to extend the life of the battery on why after 80% it slows down. So instead of replacing said unobtainium $20,000++++ battery at 5 years you can get 7 to maybe 9 years instead, oh boy what a bargain.
Its a can kick at best, I still dont see these batteries making it to 5 years if driven/charged being used for daily commuting nor occasional towing. Especially not when you consider extreme high or low ambient temps during encountered during use and how that affects range. A battery can only take so many drain/charge cycles before degrading, the further down you draw a battery the harsher the charge cycle is on it.
Can you imagine the savings if I compared everything to the first vehicle I ever owned? I mean, my first vehicle a 1989 Chevrolet s10 stickered for around 12k! It got better gas mileage than my ecoboost, but the range sucked. Atleast gasoline back then was around .80 a gallon.
Never thought it was fun to build something I had to pull to the track. I always just drove what I was racing there. Probably the most its going to haul besides bodies and groceries, is a lawnmower on a trailer during the summer, or going to the home improvement store for more than the bed can handle, so no worries.
That lawn you’re mowing better not be far.
Crazy thing is all these idiots paying over MSRP for the first
ev F150. Without much real world R&D and unknown battery performance/durability.
I'm sure at one point in my life EV will replace most vehicles but I'll be damned if I paid 20k markup for version 1 of an EV truck.
ev F150. Without much real world R&D and unknown battery performance/durability.
I'm sure at one point in my life EV will replace most vehicles but I'll be damned if I paid 20k markup for version 1 of an EV truck.
Nothing new and take your phone for example. Run it near dead and when you put it on the charger, it'll charge up rather fast to 80ish% and then you'll see the rate it was charging decrease significantly before it hits 100%.
Yea my phone slows down charging at 98% for the last 10 minutes but it didnt cost me $20k over MSRP to only give me 100% what I paid for one time a day if I am lucky.
Not everyone pays over MSRP. Quite a few have and will, but there are many that will only pay MSRP.
Even at a discount below invoice my argument still stands, not worth it.
With sky high inflation, your argument could apply to everything bought right now. Prices are high, but quality is lacking. I see a majority of people trying to hold out for prices to lower, but we all know how that really goes. Once things go up, they really never go back down. Name anything that you think the price is worth what your paying now and then why?
While I agree with what you stated above my argument is much simpler than that.
I fill my tank with gas and its full every time I do it without much delay if any. An EV's programming, or charger, or whatever that decides when it wants to "allow" you to top off the battery (the one you own and paid for) and how quickly it does that to grant you its "maximum range" is in control not you.
Doesnt really sound practical nor convenient to me at all hence my answer, not worth it.
Moron sighting. Hope he makes it to the next charging station in time.
But he's probably got a faster 0-60 time so its totally worth the extra 20-40k
I wonder how many persistent toxins are released during an EV fire?
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