hellb0y

The Pro will have really cheap materials inside, 8in screen and a few things will be optional - good value for people that can live without some modern features…

Xspurt

Not just crank windows but the crank itself will power mini-generators that put energy back in the battery. You might even be able to go 5mph on the shoulder of I70 in western Kansas with 4 people continuously cranking the windows up and down! No, I'm not hating on it, I'm all for this but I knew the low price Ford was touting would be a truck that nobody would want because of how stripped it would be. Just be sure to take everything with a grain of salt. I'm talking not your ionized (a necessary nutrient) table salt grain, I'm talking that rock salt they spread on the roads in the northeast. It will cost more than the ads say, it will go less miles than what the ads say, etc.

BLoflin

King Ranch trim started (way back) as a semi-location specific trim (i.e. popular in the Southwest, then spreading). Even now if you search a location (say zipcodes in Texas versus zipcodes in NE) you would see much more KR in inventory (back when dealers used to have inventory!). My personal opinion, is Ford is starting initial Lightning configs (trims and options) smaller, to make it simpler, and will add/adjust moving forward in future Model Years as demand and customer inputs come.

Given that Ford just now (this year) has announced a KR trim for Explorer, tells me that KR will be around for a long time.

SHO4CY

There is no Limited trim either.

As another post mentioned, I think they are just initially trying to cover the general spectrum:
Pro, XLT, Lariat, Platinum
as compared to
XL, XLT, Tremor, Lariat, King Ranch, Platinum, Limited

Slappy McGee

They're in dire need of an update. I sat in a neighbor's new Yukon Denali and it's really nice, so apparently GM does know how to make a good interior. I did shop the Silverados/GMC and really like the GMC AT4 exterior, but the interior is totally "blah" at best, and really behind with the tiny screen and lack of tech.

Slappy McGee

Although theoretically you do take some significant percentage of that volume away from the public fuel station, and transition that to people charging in their home or apartment building. I haven't seen any predictions but that could potentially flatten or even create an overall reduction in the need for public charging stations.

I kind of wonder if we might see the return of the "station attendant." To optimze charging maybe you toss you're keys to the attendant, go in for your pee/coffee/lunch and he/she wrangles various cars through the charging station to optimize throughput.

I've got to imagine (or maybe I'm just hoping) that companies like Sheetz, Circle K, QT, etc., that jazzed up the "grungy gas station with bad food and a bathroom from a horror movie" concept are thinking through some cool stuff.

N4HHE

Ditto. A while back I purchased a new Tesla with 1.49% financing. With 2% inflation I paid the loan with money worth less than what I borrowed.

Expect 10% inflation the next couple years. Its already 4.8%. "Smart money" is borrowing every penny one can, buying bigger houses now. Get something real now, pay for it later with artificial money.

b-real

iTrader: (1)

Only if they can conceive of a way to make money from it

N4HHE

So what is your problem? Today's F-150 is the size and capacity of the F-250 30 years ago.

Your fearsome battery is nothing a little bit of stiffer suspension and bigger brakes can not handle.

Quit worrying about how the solution is reached, look at what is being accomplished. You act as if once you heard "batteries" you know everything there is to know about hybrids. Ford says versions of the PowerBoost can tow 11,000 pounds. Fine. Quit worrying about how it is done and ask how much fuel is required to pull your trailer at the max 65 MPH your trailer tires are rated. That is the real question, whether an EcoBoost, PowerBoost, Lightning, or Powerstroke is going to get you from here to there at lowest cost.

N4HHE

You are suffering from limited thinking in believing "Gas truck needs gas stations therefore EV truck needs gas stations!"

The EV starts every morning with a "full tank" (or whatever you decide to charge the battery to). The only time it ever needs a "gas station" is when you come near the range of the battery.

So by your own statistics you are wasting 4.5 minutes (Really? You can detour to a gas station in only 5 minutes? Then pump gas for 4.5 minutes? The traffic lights at nearby gas stations take 4 minutes to cycle.) to fill the gas tank when if you had an EV you would be spending an extra 15 seconds each morning, 15 seconds each night, moving the EVSE umbilical 3' toward the EV at night and then 3' away in the morning.

Long 67 second video. After washing my Tesla the last 15 seconds I go into the garage for the charging umbilical and plug it in: Ring Video: Charge Tesla