Now, thanks to a lead from Agent 6, we present a a horror story from the US side of the World's Longest Open Border, featuring the Ford F150 Lightning.
"Our Last Ford F-150 Lightning EV Pickup Road Trip Was a Nightmare" appeared in MotorTrend just yesterday. Ed. hasn't had time to request permission to repost the entire article, so (spoiler alert!) we'll just quote the conclusion.
"There are undoubtedly some inherent limitations in EVs when it comes to getting places with urgency, and neither Electrify America nor Ford made things any better. The former's abhorrent reputation has chased nearly every automaker into the arms of the rival Tesla Supercharger network. The latter could've done much to mitigate Electrify America's issues with smarter software programing, but it's a year into our electric pickup's stay, and Ford hasn't yet.
"We'll eventually get to the point where traveling with an EV is as easy as it is with a gas-powered vehicle, but trips like this are reminders that huge growing pains remain, largely with the state of the infrastructure still incapable of supporting the growing EV marketplace."
Walt will take that bet. As long as country folks like us, living in an area where working charging stations are few and far between... very far... we'll stick with our ICEs and a jerry can of gas, just in case.
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