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Cheaper, Single Motor Ford F-150 Lightning Passed Up
“It couldn’t meet our targets,” according to marketing manager Jason Turnbull. The idea was floated, but then quickly sunk when the cons outweighed the pros. A prototype was even built, but it wasn’t up to snuff. explained. “We looked at various factors such as towing, payload, and performance before deciding the capability would not be worthy of the F-150 badge.”
Offering the Lightning with only one motor would have lowered the price, but the electric pickup already starts at $39,974, and the trade-offs would not have been worth the cost savings. But the amount of money that would have stayed in your pocket would equate to the amount of towing capacity and payload that would have been lost with the single motor setup.
Both electric motors produce the same power, so losing one of them would mean that the truck would only have 271 horsepower, which would make it barely more powerful than the compact Maverick pickup. Turnbull also added that the prototype single motor F-150 Lightning didn’t have significantly better range than the dual-motor version.
Source - https://www.musclecarsandtrucks.com/single-motor-ford-f-150-lightning-tested-but-didnt-pass/
“It couldn’t meet our targets,” according to marketing manager Jason Turnbull. The idea was floated, but then quickly sunk when the cons outweighed the pros. A prototype was even built, but it wasn’t up to snuff. explained. “We looked at various factors such as towing, payload, and performance before deciding the capability would not be worthy of the F-150 badge.”
Offering the Lightning with only one motor would have lowered the price, but the electric pickup already starts at $39,974, and the trade-offs would not have been worth the cost savings. But the amount of money that would have stayed in your pocket would equate to the amount of towing capacity and payload that would have been lost with the single motor setup.
Both electric motors produce the same power, so losing one of them would mean that the truck would only have 271 horsepower, which would make it barely more powerful than the compact Maverick pickup. Turnbull also added that the prototype single motor F-150 Lightning didn’t have significantly better range than the dual-motor version.
Source - https://www.musclecarsandtrucks.com/single-motor-ford-f-150-lightning-tested-but-didnt-pass/
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