I met a fellow driving a Ford F-150 Lightning the other day. He told me what he liked about the truck and what he didn't like.
My life partner and I are travelling this week and watching the tide cover and then uncover the exquisite beach at Ogunquit, Maine, just as it has done twice daily for millenia. It is a peaceful and wondrous place, one that tends to refocus our minds on the rhythms of the natural world — and how they may be altered by human activity.
He also told me he was camping with a friend who drives a Tesla. They were in a remote area and his friend didn’t have enough charge in his battery to get to the nearest charger. So they recharged the Tesla using the Ford’s V2L feature. It took a while — several hours, in fact — to give the Tesla enough electrons, but eventually it all worked out.
Ford has now joined the Tesla Supercharger network, but Bob has yet to receive the adapter he needs to use the Supercharger stations. He also was uninformed about how he would pay Tesla for a charging session once he had the adapter. That is on Ford for not clearly explaining how the process works. Bob also bemoaned the fact that there are very few pull-through sites where people towing a trailer can charge.
Bob also had some complaints about range. He lives in Quebec where it gets cold in the winter. He has noticed his range can drop by almost 50% when the temperature drops, which means even more time spent charging. Also, when the original tires wore out, he replaced them with tires that had a more aggressive tread better suited to digging a path through snow. He says they caused a 15% drop in range after they were mounted, which did not make him happy.
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