F150 Lightning
#671
Senior Member
100%. You couldn't be more right. EVs will be the future, but the future for trucks doing real truck things and using full EV is not today.
If you want to get a Starbucks and head off to yoga class, then it's perfect! My wife wants a pink one, but they don't make them in pink yet!
If you want to get a Starbucks and head off to yoga class, then it's perfect! My wife wants a pink one, but they don't make them in pink yet!
#672
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#674
Senior Member
What about charging while towing?
I haven't read all 678 posts in here, but it dawned on me yesterday, as we ordered a Mustang Mach-E (put a deposit on the Lightning day after it was announced) that I've never seen, nor read of charging stations in public places equipped for vehicles with a trailer attached. Everyone I see is a parking space that you're supposed to pull into, not back into, and no place for a trailer. If someone is towing a travel trailer with a fancy WDH, how much effort and time do they want to take to unhook, charge, and then reconnect? And how do you keep non-towers out of the spaces designed for vehicles that tow?
#675
Senior Member
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z8uuuuuuuuuuudh (05-31-2021)
#676
I think the way Ford is now going about hybred is the most effected way , by putting the motor gen in series with the drive line,, A electric machine can have the motors at wheels and the suspension to go with it.. The powerboost is a great mid step until batteries can get much better in energy density / weight / charge times..
#677
Senior Member
I think the way Ford is now going about hybred is the most effected way , by putting the motor gen in series with the drive line,, A electric machine can have the motors at wheels and the suspension to go with it.. The powerboost is a great mid step until batteries can get much better in energy density / weight / charge times..
I can only assume there just is no more room/capacity to the current F150 chassis to use PHEV (battery) efficiently, otherwise I'm sure Ford would have done it. It just makes a lot more sense, IMO.
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LennyFL (06-01-2021)
#678
I think...I think...how about imagine???
Imagine buying an EV without any battery?
Then buying the battery seperate? And belonging to a battery co-op whereby you could go cross country and stop in and have the battery swapped out in a few minutes to a fully charged one and away you go?
Similar to a bbq and propane tank?
Imagine having a spare battery at home?
Okay haters...have at 'er!
Imagine buying an EV without any battery?
Then buying the battery seperate? And belonging to a battery co-op whereby you could go cross country and stop in and have the battery swapped out in a few minutes to a fully charged one and away you go?
Similar to a bbq and propane tank?
Imagine having a spare battery at home?
Okay haters...have at 'er!
#679
Senior Member
I think...I think...how about imagine???
Imagine buying an EV without any battery?
Then buying the battery seperate? And belonging to a battery co-op whereby you could go cross country and stop in and have the battery swapped out in a few minutes to a fully charged one and away you go?
Similar to a bbq and propane tank?
Imagine having a spare battery at home?
Okay haters...have at 'er!
Imagine buying an EV without any battery?
Then buying the battery seperate? And belonging to a battery co-op whereby you could go cross country and stop in and have the battery swapped out in a few minutes to a fully charged one and away you go?
Similar to a bbq and propane tank?
Imagine having a spare battery at home?
Okay haters...have at 'er!
#680
Senior Member
It appears that Babcock and helb0y are on the Board of Directors.
Without their selfless civil service, I wouldn't know what I did or did not "need."
It is so much easier when other people make these important decisions for me.
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All Hat No Cattle (05-30-2021)