2022 Ford F-150 Lightning
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DETROIT – Ford Motor’s 2022 F-150 Lightning pickup can have an electrical vary of as much as 320 miles, in response to last Environmental Safety Company estimates launched Monday by the automaker.
The highest vary of the all-electric pickup is 20 miles increased than Ford initially estimated, which locations it simply above the vary of the 2022 Rivian R1T, however nonetheless shy of the 2022 GMC Hummer EV.
The Rivian R1T with a bigger optionally available battery pack is rated at as much as 314 miles. The GMC Hummer Version 1 pickup is at a GM-estimated 329 miles. Each are the one variations of the autos presently obtainable.
Rivian and GM each confirmed longer-range choices of the pickups shall be obtainable at later dates, together with an R1T with a variety of greater than 400 miles and a Hummer pickup at 350 miles. These fashions usually are not presently on sale.
Whereas the F-150 Lightning has a decrease vary than the Hummer, it’s extra environment friendly. Each the Lightning and the R1T have a mixed freeway and metropolis ranking of 70 MPGe, an electrical car vary equal for miles per gallon. The Hummer has a ranking of 47 MPGe, about 33% lower than the opposite pickups, in response to Automobile and Driver.
General, the F-150 Lightning will include a variety of 230 miles, 300 miles or 320 miles, relying on mannequin and dimension of the battery packs within the autos.
Ford is anticipated to begin serial manufacturing of the F-150 Lightning shortly, with deliveries starting within the spring. A piece-oriented model of the F-150 Lightning will begin at about $40,000, whereas a high-end mannequin will prime out at about $90,000.
A Tesla pickup might in the future lead the pack, however not but. When CEO Elon Musk first unveiled his automaker’s Cybertruck in November 2019, he claimed variations of the angular electrical pickup would have a variety of 500 miles. Musk stated in January that manufacturing of the pickup suffered a number of delays and isn’t anticipated till subsequent yr.
