![]() That’s on a balmy summer day, of course, and with nothing in the bed or on the hitch. Ford claims a range of 370 kilometres for the standard battery and up to 515 kilometres for the larger unit in my tester. But, he asked, what’s the driving range?Īh – the classic EV question. He was just as impressed with the 400-litre storage frunk (front trunk) under the hood and the various power points for charging equipment. When I went to collect firewood from my friend Ralph Robins, a former ice-road trucker, he’d never seen an electric pickup and was impressed with my reports of 580 horsepower and 775 lb-ft of torque. The F-150 Lightning has a distinctive light bar around the front grille. At No Frills, a woman in a beaten-up F-150 couldn’t believe my truck was so quiet and loved the light bar around the grille. At my local Tim Hortons, where I sat emissions-free and guilt-free in the drive-through line, the guy in the lifted F-150 ahead of me yelled back that I was in a sweet truck and paid for my coffee (and yes, I paid it forward). It was soon clear that nobody else in town had seen one on the road, either. Its battery pack was upgraded from the standard 98-kilowatt-hour unit to the extended-range 131-kilowatt-hour, which cost an additional $13,380. There’s also a stripped-down work truck sold to fleets that starts at $58,000, but my tester was the $80,000 Lariat. There are three different versions available to the public, starting at $68,000 for the XLT and rising to $110,000 for the Platinum. At least, not until I saw my test vehicle in November. Theoretically, North America’s first mass-production, all-electric pickup truck has been available since the summer – Ford’s been cranking them out since April from its new assembly plant in Dearborn, Mich., trying to meet an order sheet of more than 150,000 trucks – but I’ve not yet seen one on the road. The Ford F-150 Lightning is surely the most anticipated vehicle of this year, electric or otherwise.
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