Comment by malfist

20 hours ago

Me too, it's such a fantastic truck. Built like a tank, huge battery and insanely fast charging for a 400V architecture. The only thing that sucks about it is it's a bit bouncy, and the software can be stupid. But I love it.

We bought it mostly because we wanted an EV for power backup for the house. We get ice storms in the winter and it can knock out power for days, and we need to be able to keep almost 1,000 gallons of aquariums running during them. The F150 extended range has that in spades and was cheaper than the equivalent power wall system.

It's basically a whole house backup generator that we can happen to drive around.

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iugtmkbdfil834  17 hours ago

The fascinating thing for me was that they actually had trouble selling it ( and thus the production stop and fairly aggressive incentives to sell the remaining ones off ). I really do enjoy mine and I swear I was not a truck person.

  • b0rtb0rt  14 hours ago

    it’s pretty much useless for anything you would actually use a truck for

    • malfist  2 hours ago

      You know how I know you're not an F150 lightning owner?

      It's as capable, if not more so, than your standard F150 at truck duties in everything except towing. And it's a bit of a mixed bag there, it can tow way more than a standard f150, but it cuts the range to 1/3 so you have to charge pretty often. Still, 100 miles towing 10,000 pounds is nothing to sneeze at.

b0rtb0rt  17 hours ago

f150 power boost is superior, has all the features you mention but you can use gasoline to keep your generator going

  • malfist  15 hours ago

    Why would I want to lug around an engine everywhere I go? I'd only need it like once or twice a year.

    As for the generator aspect, with its 135 kWh battery pack, I can power the aquariums for weeks and weeks.

fragmede  19 hours ago

The frunk on the F150-Lightning has not been praised enough. It's a really great truck, but having that giant storage space that locks makes it so much better than anything else out there if that's what you need.