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    All Electric Ford F-150 Lightning to be revealed on May 19 at 930 pm ET

    in Ford Motor Company Discussion Forum

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    April 26 is just the event date close enough to the date of production of the first customer orders, which is the preceding week. Likely they'll deliver those first few trucks then or soon after. I believe Job #1 was for dealer mannequins etc and has been happening for the last few weeks. Customer orders are all under Job #2 as per WBDO order sheets, which presumably starts around this week.

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    All Electric Ford F-150 Lightning to be revealed on May 19 at 930 pm ET

    in Ford Motor Company Discussion Forum

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    1 hour ago, HotRunrGuy said:

    I look at the trip I'm making this Saturday. Chicago to Miami OK, 9 hours, 603 miles.  With a 300 mile max range, I'd possibly have to stop and charge twice, adding how many hours to my drive time?

     

     

    Well, if one wanted to be time-efficient and only charge at your fastest rate, then you might want to stop on more occasions for less time. At it's peak the extended range battery in the F-150 will charge at 54 miles of range per 10 minutes (that's information from Ford). It might only do that between 20% and 70% (this part is just a guess, they haven't released the charging curve). So let's say you went down from 300 miles of range to 60 miles of range (20%) then charged for 20 minutes to 54+54+60 = 168 miles of range (56% of battery), you'd then drive another 108 miles and repeat that 2 more times, to get to your destination with about 20 miles spare (6.6%). So either you charge at your destination or you charge one more time before you arrive. So you'd be looking at 1 hour total charging time.

     

    Of course, very few people would want to be this geeky, and just want the gas-like experience of fill-and-go. We'll get there 1 day. Perhaps the F-150 Lightning isn't for people who take regular long road trips (especially towing), but we'll get there one day. It's definitely ready for people who stay local though IMO.

    All Electric Ford F-150 Lightning to be revealed on May 19 at 930 pm ET

    in Ford Motor Company Discussion Forum

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    7 minutes ago, pffan1990 said:

    [...]it asked me to either log in or create a Ford customer account before even proceeding with the 'reservation' process. I don't have a customer account nor do I want to set one up just to view the features and prices of the new Lightning. I'm not a customer with intentions to buy one since I ceased driving over 20 years ago due to my low vision, though I'm a Ford enthusiast. But seems odd they require logging into account before proceeding after selecting dealership. I guess Ford wants to make sure that those customers who are serious about reserving would already be logged into their accounts to speed up the process, which makes sense.

     

    There is no build and price yet. It's just a $100 blanket reservation to order specific trim / variant at a future date. The login is to associate your reservation with your account and make the payment. It's pretty much the last step of the process.

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    Dearborn Shutdown?

    in Ford Motor Company Discussion Forum

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    On 5/14/2021 at 10:52 AM, HotRunrGuy said:

    Probably not a good look, to have DTP shut down the week of the 17th, while Pres Biden is next door at the BEV Center.

    Or maybe that's exactly the look they want to give, so that the federal government diverts more resources to get US chipmaking off the ground / auto makers.

    Wildtrak features in the US

    in Ranger Forum

    Posted · Edited by petemill

    I was visiting New Zealand earlier this year and got a great deal on a 1.5 months rental for a Ranger. It was a brand new Wildtak. Served us so well that I was almost convinced to get it instead of a new Escape this year. Some of the things I liked about it and are standard Wildtrak options just don't seem easily available in the US and I'm wondering if it's a taste issue or something else?

     

    Power Retractable tonneau cover.

    The integration on this was fantastic:

    • A separate button on the factory key fob for opening, closing and pausing the retraction.
    • A specific button inside the cab on the dash for it
    • Another button mounted just inside the bed which closes / opens

    Yes I know we can get something aftermarket like the Powertrax, but it's over $2500 USD and doesn't have the same level of integration (no built-in buttons and requires a separate key fob).

     

    Bed rail flares

    Or whatever they're called. The flare / wing yes is plastic, but help bring a bit of a connected feel between the cab and the bed. I guess us Americans are more used to a simple Truck appearance, and they'll have the Maverick for this kind of unibody style soon. But the only aftermarket similar style we can get seems to be more of a sports bar approach, which is a bit too aggressive for my tastes. Although looks-wise I do prefer the US front bumper vs the chin on the NZ one.

     

    Diesel Engine

    Speaks for itself.

     

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    All Electric Ford F-150 Lightning to be revealed on May 19 at 930 pm ET

    in Ford Motor Company Discussion Forum

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    4 hours ago, Deanh said:

    I for one will be curious if Ford once again limits this to the upper equipment levels.....which would be a mistake IMO as Municipalities and the like will be all over this. We have a Fleet meeting  June 17 which will be going over this truck and the Electric Transit....which leads me to believe it WILL be avail in Commercial variants.

     

    Well, the Powerboost is available on all trim / equipment levels, so hopefully that's another sign.

    De-couple looks from features

    in Ford: Wish List

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    Pretty annoying how on f-150, you can't have certain features without getting chrome. Platinum's cannot be configured without Chrome. Or to be even more feature-specific, you cannot get a wireless charger, without getting chrome all over the exterior :dance:

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