2023 Ford F-150 Lightning Review / Do Electric Pickup Trucks work?

Jul 30, 2023

2023 Ford F-150 Lightning Review / Do Electric Pickup Trucks work?

We have electric cars, electric SUVs, and now we have electric trucks. But does an electric truck like the 2023 Ford F-150 Lightning make sense so early in the EV revolution? Could it still do all the truck stuff like tow and haul while providing a spacious and comfortable cabin?

Depending on which battery pack you opt for, the F-150 Lightning has either 452 hp \u0026 775 lb-ft (337 kW \u0026 1,050 Nm) of torque with the standard battery or 580 hp \u0026 775 lb-ft (433 kW \u0026 1,050 Nm) of torque with the larger extended range battery.

With the standard battery, the F150 Lightning can drive for up to 386 km (240 miles). The extended range battery allows the electric truck to drive for up to 515 km (320 miles). But if you opt for the Platinum trim, that range drops to 483 km (300 miles).
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0:00 Intro - Don’t Forget to Subscribe :)
1:11 Performance - Can the F-150 Lightning tow?
6:10 Comfort - How spacious is the interior?
11:20 Odds and Ends - What gadgets does the F-150 Lightning have?
14:54 Conclusion - Is it worth to buy?

Content

0.66 -> we have electric cars electric SUVs and now an electric pickup truck now with cars and

7.02 -> SUVs especially luxury cars and SUVs it makes a lot of sense to go full electric because they're

12.18 -> smoother and quieter but can an electric pickup truck still do pickup truck stuff

19.8 -> let's go for a drive and find out

48.24 -> [Music]

79.92 -> like many other electric vehicles the F-150 Lightning is powerful and fast

87 -> depending on which battery pack you choose the F-150 Lightning can produce either 452 horsepower

93.3 -> and 775 pound-feet of torque or 580 horsepower and the same amount of torque this demo vehicle

101.22 -> is the latter with the larger battery driving range is either 386 kilometers with a standard

107.58 -> battery and 515 kilometers with the extended range battery despite the massive weight of

114.18 -> this truck it really gets going in a straight line whenever you put your foot down in fact the front

120 -> tires have a little bit of trouble putting all that power down to the ground now granted this

125.04 -> particular truck does have snow tires it doesn't have all season tires so the grip levels are a

131.4 -> bit lower on this particular demo vehicle and if you do turn off traction as stability control then

138 -> you can do some pretty stupid things with this truck because of all that power and torque and

142.68 -> the fact that there's no weight over the back wheels with the extended range battery Ford

147.78 -> estimates that it can be recharged from a level 2 charger from 15 to 100 percent in about 20 hours

155.16 -> from 15 to 80 at a level 3 charger Ford estimates a time of around 40 minutes these times should be

163.26 -> a little bit less with the standard range battery the F-150 Lightning does have regenerative braking

169.08 -> however it doesn't have different modes of regen braking so there is one pedal driving

175.26 -> which is what I'm using right now and it is really smooth and really good for just everyday driving

181.86 -> if you decide to turn it off and you're in the normal drive mode then it basically reacts as

189 -> though it's just regular engine braking if you switch the truck into sport mode you do get a

195.18 -> little bit more regen braking but it's nowhere near as strong enough to bring the truck to a

200.76 -> complete stop again use the one pedal mode if you want that the actual physical brakes are

207.06 -> pretty strong especially in conjunction with the one pedal drive mode and the brake pedal is nice

213.42 -> and firm so I'm not complaining about it at all steering is decently Hefty it's not too light

219.06 -> but it's also not too heavy so it's not going to Tire you out if you want to park the truck

223.38 -> and it has good stability at highway speeds but it is a little numb feeling you don't really get

229.98 -> that much feedback through your fingertips then again this is a pickup truck and it no longer says

235.5 -> SVT on the back tailgate like how the original F-150 Lightning did or maybe it set it on the

241.38 -> side of the bed I can't remember the lightning is only available with a 5.5 foot bed that has

248.16 -> 1495 liters of box volume you can option the bed with a drop in liner or a spray-on liner

255.6 -> the bed has LED lights as well as one tie down in each corner with additional removable tie-downs

262.62 -> the tailgate can be power operated and incorporate Ford's tailgate step

267.6 -> there's also the pro power on board which allows for multiple power tools

271.38 -> to be plugged into the truck or you can use it to power in-home appliances during a blackout

277.98 -> now let's talk a little bit about this Towing when properly equipped the lariat trim of the

283.98 -> F-150 lighting canceled up to 10 000 pounds and carry 2 000 pounds of cargo however with

289.86 -> electric vehicles as soon as you start to tow something your driving range takes a plummet

295.62 -> thing is though it's the same thing with normal gasoline or diesel powered pickup trucks your

301.38 -> overall driving range and the fuel economy takes a nosedive as soon as you start to tow something

305.64 -> really heavy but with a gasoline or diesel you just pull into a gas station pay with your credit

311.46 -> card not download a million different apps and you can fill up within five minutes and Away you go

317.94 -> with an electric vehicle it's a little bit more challenging not only are Chargers few

323.58 -> and far between as soon as you leave a major city but you can't really pull into a charger

328.86 -> while Towing something you have to pull over somewhere else and disconnect the trailer and

334.56 -> then pull into a charging spot provided that it's not already taken by some other vehicle

339.84 -> and that the charger actually works then you wait around a few hours if it's a decently

345.48 -> fast charger let's face a 350 kilowatt Chargers are pretty much non-existent

351.36 -> even here in Vancouver I hardly see them at all and then once the charging is done then you got

358.02 -> to reconnect your trailer and then away you go again it's much more of a hassle with an electric

363.24 -> pickup truck so when it comes to trailering electric trucks just do not make sense [Music]

379.92 -> one of the big changes to this Ford F-150 Lightning in terms of the suspension that

384.18 -> is is the fact that it now has fully independent suspension there's no more solid rear axle in the

391.32 -> back what that means is that the ride is pretty comfortable it doesn't have air suspension like

397.32 -> the Ram 1500 but even without it as you drive over a bump you don't feel the harshness of that bump

403.2 -> as you would in a truck with a solid rear axle additionally because it is electric it is really

410.7 -> quiet in this cabin there's absolutely no noise from the powertrain you don't feel any vibrations

416.94 -> from the powertrain and it's just really smooth and really comfortable there is one thing that you

423.9 -> may feel and that is when you're driving at really slow speeds like parking lot speeds and you just

429.6 -> go on and off the accelerator pedal then you might feel a little bit of play from the electric motor

436.62 -> and the drive axles I think that's just slack in the system it's not like a really big shunt so

444.18 -> you're not going to have any sort of whiplash or anything like that but you may notice it because

450.36 -> this is a large American Truck there is a lot of space inside the cabin I am six foot four so above

456.6 -> average in height and yet I feel small inside this F-150 Lightning plenty of leg space I can

462.72 -> move the seat further back and I have plenty of Headroom and this seat is in its lowest position

467.94 -> but I still sit really high up so I have excellent visibility out the front out the side and even out

473.22 -> the back I can easily see over smaller cars and SUVs the interior is more or less similar to a

480.54 -> standard F-150 apart from this giant tablet on the center dashboard now I'm not the biggest fan

486.9 -> of these giant touchscreen controls primarily because they integrate the climate controls and

492.48 -> the most used functions like the heated and ventilated seats right into the touchscreen

497.1 -> and it can become quite distracting when you're driving and you try to fiddle around it to turn

502.68 -> on or off your heated seats the standard F-150 has a large enough touchscreen in my opinion and yet

509.46 -> it still has physical buttons for your climate or your heated and ventilated seats I think that is

516.84 -> a really good blend of touchscreen controls and physical controls whereas this it's all touch

522.48 -> screen and it's really distracting and I don't like it the infotainment itself is pretty easy to

528.78 -> navigate around it may take you a few minutes to familiarize yourself where everything is but once

534.72 -> you do and once you start playing around with it it's pretty easy to use it does allow for Wireless

540.72 -> Apple carplay and wireless Android auto and for the most part I haven't had any connectivity

545.1 -> issues between the system and my phone when using Wireless Android auto as for the rest of this

551.76 -> interior it looks like it got taken straight out of the standard F-150 so on the center console

557.82 -> you have a wireless phone charging pad as well as a couple of USB ports and you do have this

563.28 -> shifter that goes into the center console and you can flip over the armrest you have a table

570.66 -> steering wheel is straight out of the regular F-150 same with the door controls same with

575.94 -> the controls that are right here by my left knee and it just feels like a regular F-150 apart from

582.3 -> this touchscreen which I hate now with that let's go check out the back seats space in the back is

589.14 -> as you would expect from a large truck more than plentiful again above average in height sitting

594.72 -> behind my tall driving position and I really can't complain for legroom same story with Headroom more

600.9 -> than enough now this particular truck does not have heated rear seats but you do get a couple of

606.96 -> USB ports as well as a plug cup holders are right here and the bench seats can fold up 60 40 so that

617.1 -> you can store taller items if you don't have any passengers in the back and that's about it for

623.82 -> the back seats now let's go check out the trunk and it is in that direction not that direction

631.32 -> because there's no engine that means that there's nothing really underneath This Hood

635.64 -> and you can use it as storage so the hood is power operated takes a while for it to open

640.92 -> but it does eventually open you can also open it with the remote or a little button on the inside

646.74 -> once it is open it reveals 400 liters of space there are a few plugs with the pro power on board

652.98 -> there's a button for you to escape if you ever get stuck inside of it somehow I don't know your

659.52 -> washer fluid is also there to refill it and you get a couple of Lights here and here underneath

666.06 -> This Hood plus there's a little compartment right underneath the floor for a charging cable I guess

673.32 -> so all in all it's pretty cool feature and I like it

689.12 -> [Music]

690.12 -> there's no other way to say this the 2023 Ford F-150 Lightning is an expensive pickup truck

697.2 -> here in Canada it starts at 79 000 Canadian for the XLT trim with the standard range battery

704.04 -> in the United States there's a lower trim level called the pro which starts at around sixty

709.26 -> thousand dollars American this demo vehicle that I have is the lariat extended range and it has an

715.56 -> as equipped price of around 110 000 Canadian this Lariat trim is not fully loaded but it still has

723 -> a lot of convenience features in it heated seats heated steering wheel surround view cameras front

729.24 -> and rear parking sensors Dual Zone automatic climate control wireless phone charging pad

733.98 -> and so on but more features such as ventilated front seats massaging front seats heated rear

741.06 -> seats panoramic sunroof 18 speaker b o sound system and many more options can be added on

749.58 -> there are also a few things built into this infotain system to help the driver with Towing

754.5 -> payload and just driving the truck so if you go into the settings and at the very bottom you have

761.16 -> Smart hitch which will help you connect a trailer and also do a light test there's onboard scales

767.34 -> which will actually sense how much weight there is into the back of the bed or even in the trunk

775.26 -> their Zone lighting so you can turn on different lights all around the truck to help you see better

781.14 -> at night and there's also blue cruise this is Ford's version of a semi hands-free driving Aid

787.74 -> that works on most highways now when I previously used blue Cruise in the Ford Mach E I haven't had

794.52 -> any issues but in this Ford F-150 Lightning it doesn't really seem to work with the hands-free

800.88 -> portion of it the adaptive cruise and keeping the distance between you and the car ahead works just

806.28 -> fine but the hands-free system doesn't work it always tells me to keep one hand on the steering

811.86 -> wheel and I did look through the infotainment system to see if I have the hands-free options

817.44 -> selected or not which clearly I do and yet it still asks me to keep one hand on the steering

823.92 -> wheel now I have checked online to see if I was doing something wrong and what I did find is that

829.98 -> if you go to general settings and about sync and look down here hands-free driving mode available

837.78 -> through the 13th of April 2023. today is the 14th of April but I did try blue Cruise a few days

845.82 -> prior so this should have worked and yet it didn't I did also check for software updates and there

854.94 -> are none doesn't let me update whatever this is so I'm assuming that this particular demo vehicle

862.08 -> does need to go to the dealership to get some sort of update but like I said in the past in the Ford

869.52 -> mock E I have had it work but with this particular demo vehicle blue Cruise just doesn't work as it

875.76 -> was designed to with the hands-free system Beyond blue Cruise the Ford F-150 lining comes equipped

882.54 -> as standard with every safety feature in the Ford catalog automatic emergency braking Lane

888.6 -> departure with Lane keep blind spot sensors with rear cross traffic alert and many more features

895.08 -> so does an electric pickup truck make sense well firstly looking at the F-150 Lightning as a piece

901.62 -> of engineering I think the four did a really good job on it it's plenty powerful enough driving

907.26 -> range really quiet and smooth the interior is spacious and it feels like an F-150 in there apart

913.44 -> from the giant tablet which I absolutely hate the bed is big enough and it can tow a lot of stuff

920.04 -> but you can't really tell for that far and that's the thing if you plan on using the F-150 Lightning

925.68 -> as a traditional pickup truck as in Towing often and carrying a lot of stuff often then you're far

931.8 -> better off just buying a traditional gasoline or diesel-powered truck you can use the F-150

937.98 -> Lightning as an everyday Runabout within a city but you're better off just getting an electric

943.5 -> SUV because this thing is very expensive and you'd be saving a lot more money with an electric SUV

951 -> so that's the thing about the F-150 Lightning it's really expensive and the infrastructure especially

957.72 -> in more rural areas just can't support something like this especially when you're towing something

964.02 -> if I had the money to spend on a truck that costs as much as this I'd personally be spending it on

970.38 -> the Ford F-150 power boost I think it's the best of both worlds but that's just my opinion what

976.26 -> about yours what are your thoughts on the F-150 Lightning let me know in the comments

981.36 -> and if you'd like to know more about this Ford F-150 Lightning I wrote a more detailed review

986.22 -> of it over on my website you can find that link in the video description or click on the

990.9 -> pop-up Banner right up there and as always I will see you in the next car or truck or

996.6 -> most likely it'll probably be an SUV next time anyway thank you for watching I hope

1001.94 -> you enjoyed this video as much as the crows did and I'll see you next time

1032.78 -> [Music]

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