Ford F-150 Lightning electric vehicle is a mighty luxury truck | review
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Elon Musk’s Tesla pickup truck has a sci-fi design. But I recently drove a Ford F-150 Lightning pickup truck that looks like your more traditional monster truck. But it’s available as an all-electric vehicle.
The car packs a lot of tech for people who want a taste of the future. Before the pandemic, I picked up a habit of reviewing cars for the tech that is in them. I didn’t drive these vehicles around a track like a pro car reviewer, but I kept an eye on the tech in electric vehicles. And so I tried out a 2022 model of the Ford F-150 Lightning. It’s like a country truck for nerds.
Before the pandemic, I drove the Jaguar I-Pace, the BMW i3s, the Mini Cooper SE Countryman (hybrid), the Volkswagen e-Golf, and the Ford Fusion Energi. After the CES 2019 tech trade show, I figured this would prepare me for our self-driving car future.
But while that future isn’t mainstream across the country yet, the EV part of things is here. It’s nice to see some of the other tech embedded in the cars as it starts to fade into the woodwork and become just one more feature. Modern EVs have tech for advanced safety features, passenger comfort, infotainment, sustainability and general driver assistance.
This car is a big truck, the kind that you have to step up onto a running board before you can then step up again to get into the cabin.
The F-150 Lighting comes in four models: Pro, XLT, Lariat and Platinum.
The truck’s range is estimated by the Environmental Protection Agency to be about 230 miles with a standard battery on a full charge. The extended-range battery enables the truck to travel as much as 320 miles for the XLT and
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