TomB985
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- First Name
- Tom
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- Isanti, MN
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- 2022 Lightning XLT ER
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It’s been great!
We’re about a third of the way through my first boating season with the Lightning, and I’ve been more than impressed. My usual run to the lake is 50-75 miles each way with my 5,500 lb Monterey 224 FS. I tow between 60-70 MPH with my Lightning XLT ER, and my efficiency has settled into about 1.2 mi/kWh. My longest run was 144 miles round-trip, and I ended the day at 9%. I’ve pulled the boat about 800 miles so far.
I monitor my temperatures with an OBD scanner, and I haven’t found a reason to want more cooling. My battery temps stay a few degrees above ambient, and the motor temperatures are consistently between 130-140º F. When I romp on the pedal to accelerate to 70 MPH, they peak around 158-160º and come back down within a few seconds. The temperature sliders on the instrument cluster have never moved, so I’m sure there’s a lot more tolerance.
My truck pulls more confidently than every F150 or diesel Super Duty I’ve owned before, and I think much of that is the tight IRS setup that keeps the rear end solidly planted through every curve. It’s a hekuva lot of fun surprising people at stop lights who don’t expect this boat to accelerate anywhere near this fast. I can see Max Tow being useful for cooling if I were pulling this much on a trip with DCFC sessions, but the standard cooling seems more than adequate for what I’m doing. I haven’t seen any thermal throttling or sign that the truck was getting too warm, and I’m not conservative with the throttle.
We’re about a third of the way through my first boating season with the Lightning, and I’ve been more than impressed. My usual run to the lake is 50-75 miles each way with my 5,500 lb Monterey 224 FS. I tow between 60-70 MPH with my Lightning XLT ER, and my efficiency has settled into about 1.2 mi/kWh. My longest run was 144 miles round-trip, and I ended the day at 9%. I’ve pulled the boat about 800 miles so far.
I monitor my temperatures with an OBD scanner, and I haven’t found a reason to want more cooling. My battery temps stay a few degrees above ambient, and the motor temperatures are consistently between 130-140º F. When I romp on the pedal to accelerate to 70 MPH, they peak around 158-160º and come back down within a few seconds. The temperature sliders on the instrument cluster have never moved, so I’m sure there’s a lot more tolerance.
My truck pulls more confidently than every F150 or diesel Super Duty I’ve owned before, and I think much of that is the tight IRS setup that keeps the rear end solidly planted through every curve. It’s a hekuva lot of fun surprising people at stop lights who don’t expect this boat to accelerate anywhere near this fast. I can see Max Tow being useful for cooling if I were pulling this much on a trip with DCFC sessions, but the standard cooling seems more than adequate for what I’m doing. I haven’t seen any thermal throttling or sign that the truck was getting too warm, and I’m not conservative with the throttle.
