"Electric vehicle, new technology … I was impressed with it," he said. He uses pickup trucks for recreational purposes such as hunting, fishing, quadding and visiting his cottage. Clean energy, fuel costs prompted purchaseīala wanted a vehicle that used clean energy and hoped to save some of the $1,000-$1,500 per month he'd been spending on fuel for his gas-powered truck. Robbin Nesbit, sales manager for the Wright-Hennepin Cooperative Electric Association, said the fast charger was working on July 27, the day Bala visited, with usage records showing other people were able to successfully charge their EVs.ĪJ Gosselin with ChargePoint said the company has two level 2 chargers, which don't charge as fast as level 3, in Elk River. One station was offline due to maintenance, but there was another one which was working within Bala's remaining range, he said. It's unclear why Bala's truck couldn't get a charge in Albertville. Over to you, Tesla.First Person I love my electric car but I didn't realize my life would revolve around charging it And the early signs are good with the first year and a half of production sold out and reservations on hold to give them a chance to fulfil existing orders. If you can get your head around the 300-mile range, America – we’d make the switch. The mission was to remove all the excuses for an F-150 customer not to buy the electric one, and they’ve done a remarkable job. All things considered, it’s a better truck than the standard F-150 and hats off to Ford for getting the price down to near parity with the combustion model. It looks familiar, it goes like a muscle car when you stomp on it and it’s full of brilliant practical touches and features that will either solve a problem in your life, or at least give you something interesting to talk about over the garden fence. If ever there’s an EV capable of shifting American attitudes, it’s this one right here. What we discovered was for every EV sceptic there was someone whose head was turned by how relatively cheap (amid spiralling ‘gas’ prices) the Lightning was to charge, or how useful it is, or the performance figures. The fact the Ford F-150 Lightning ever had a 41,769 price tag was absurd. FORD F-150 LIGHTNING BODY Construction/materials High-strength steel frame, high-strength, military-grade aluminum alloy body and bed Body style SuperCrew four-door with 5. The public charging infrastructure in the US, as in the UK, needs a lot of attention especially given the bigger distances between towns, but if you can home charge that’s half the battle won. Is America ready for the electric car? Yes. “Cue half an hour of shouting, no way, you’re lying, disbelief.” They get even more amped, then he tells them that’s the EV. Darren Palmer, VP Electric Vehicle Programs (aka the Brit heading up Ford’s $50bn bid to upend Tesla as the biggest EV maker in the world) tells a lovely story about asking some grizzled Texan truck lovers what kind of animal would an electric truck be? “A Chihuahua.” OK, what drink would it be? “Pink champagne.” He then proceeds to distract them by talking about the new F-150 Raptor before rattling off the specs of one more exciting future model. Problem is, dazzling Silicon Valley types tired of waiting for their non-existent Cybertruck to be delivered is the easy part… tempting its core audience over to an EV is going to be trickier. Ford had to turn the tap off at 200,000 reservations, over a year’s worth of production, because it didn’t want things spiralling out of control and customers having to wait years for delivery. Rivian, by all accounts, is having difficulty ramping up production, the four-tonne Hummer is $100k+ and the Chevy doesn’t arrive until next year. What makes the Ford unique is it looks (by and large), like any other F-150, it’s affordable (prices start from under $40,000) and it’s ready. True, there are suddenly quite a few about, like the new Hummer EV, Chevy Silverado EV and Rivian R1T, as well as Elon’s stainless-steel wedge, the Cybertruck. What is it about electric pick-up trucks at the moment?
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