REVIEW: Ford has electrified its most iconic utility vehicle with the 563bhp F150 Lightning - is it enough to justify a near-$100,000 asking price?
Less than two years separated the start of production of the combustion-engined version of the current, 14th-generation F-150 from the introduction of the F-150 Lightning in April last year. And this isn’t simply a regular F-150 with an electric motor where a big V8 was, though it isn’t so dissimilar.
DC rapid charging is rated at up to 150kW, but only through an American-market-typical CCS1 port. We would expect this to be swapped for a European-standard CCS2 port as part of European homologation.Within that chassis frame, the F-150 Lightning carries twin drive motors and its lithium ion drive batteries.
And so to the fairground attraction part. Ford reckons ‘one-foot rollout’ 0-60mph standing starts are possible in around 4.0sec. Far more importantly, it claims little-compromised, hard-grafting, truck-typical utility for the Lightning, too. While the toughest ICE F-150s have flatbed payloads ready to carry close to 1.5 metric tonnes of cargo and are rated to tow up to six tonnes, the Lightning is itself ready to carry a little over 800kg of load and can tow up to 4500kg.
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