It is hard to overstate just how big a deal it is that Ford has electrified its F-150 pickup.
to overstate just how big a deal it is that Ford has electrified its F-150 pickup. The F-Series family to which it belongs has been the best-selling vehicle in America for 45 years, with Ford shifting almost 2,500 of them every single day. Or about 103 per hour. F-Series truck sales generate $40 billion in annual revenue; if the line was made by an independent company, it would be bigger than McDonald’s or Nike.
Our first drive of the F-150 Lightning begins in San Antonio, Texas. It’s a fitting location, given the that the state accounts for 20 percent of all Ford truck sales.This British writer’s first impressions of the sheer scale of an F-Series truck will be superfluous to American eyes, but, still, the F-150 Lightning is vast. It’s a cabin to be climbed up to instead of stepped into. But once inside, the view is familiar, thanks to the same 15.
The cabin is equipped with two 120-volt outlets, six USB ports, and a wireless phone charger, while the frunk has a pair of 120-volt outlets and two USB ports, and the bed has four further 120-volt sockets and a 240-volt outlet. These can be used to power circular saws, air compressors, generators, drills, and flood lighting—or televisions, music systems, small refrigerators, or even a hot tub when camping or tailgating.
Much of the five-seat interior is carried over from the internal-combustion F-150, including how the gear shifter can be hidden away and covered by a table that folds out from the center arm rest, acting as a surface on which to complete paperwork, place a laptop, or eat lunch. It’s a small thing, but evidence of the degree to which Ford thinks about what its customers want and how these trucks are used.We head out of San Antonio and drive north to Boerne.
Being an EV, the F-150 Lightning is naturally rapid. There are two battery options available at launch, a 98-kWh model producing 452 horsepower, and a 130-kWh model that kicks out 580 hp—making it the most powerful F-150 ever. Both produce 775 pound-feet of torque. Ford isn’t committing to an exact 0-60 mph time for the most potent model of Lightning, but says it is somewhere in the mid-four-second range. And yes, a full-size truck launching to 60 mph in around 4.
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