What’s your exit plan for the truck?

[Tony Burgh]

Two of my teenage cousins died in a single car accident reportedly caused by another car driven by other teenagers. I remember how I was driving when I was younger. Completely oblivious to the risks I was surrounded by. Although lightning may be slightly safer for your son, it is a deadly weapon to others. I highly recommend something underpowered for his first car. I never tried anything stupid with my Frontier (140 hp) because I simply would look stupid trying. When I floored it, it would just get louder with no noticeable difference in speed. That is a perfect first car for a teenager.

My girls learned to drive on a Buick Roadmaster station wagon and a beat up Grand Marquis. Lots of metal around them and both pathetically underpowered. Just what the situation called for.

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[Maxx]

My girls learned to drive on a Buick Roadmaster station wagon

That is my dream car. I drool over it every time I see one on the road. As much as I love my Lightning, I will trade it in a heartbeat if GM made an EV Roadmaster. That is the beauty of being old, I don’t care what I look like to others as long as I am having a ball.

 

[ThunderSnoww]

For me, it will come down to future rebate deals, the evolution of resale value, and what Ford's Project T3 ends up being. However, my biggest complaint with the truck at the 6-month mark is the (relatively) slow max charging speeds compared to newer trucks (e.g. CT, Silverado, Sierra). Others can take advantage of 300 kW charging speeds compared to our ~180 kW max. For now, I'm just enjoying the ride and limiting long road trips.

 

[9onmy6]

This will be my last. The EV truck is ok. Why do I have turn off coach brake every time?
I did about 7k miles in the truck in the past 2 years. I prefer my bike (Dang 21K miles this year). I only drive it during crap weather. Glad I purchased extended warranty.
So next up is a new Ducati. I think my decat Pikes Peaks edition has been thru enough.
i only purchased b/c of hopes dreams of powering with HIS. Which I gave up. 2 years later. Still on garage floor.

 

[Deeame]

I’m curious what your thoughts are for when you plan to trade or sell the truck?

Drive it till the wheels fall off?

Trade at 100k miles, when the warranty is done?

Trade in at 90k miles?

I’m just learning about the front end of buying/living with an EV, but I don’t know what folks are doing on the back end.

Is there “best time” to move onto another?

I’d rather not be buying a new vehicle every few years.

Thankfully, I love my truck. The value is low now but will get worse as range increases in newer models, making a ‘23 Lightning even harder to sell. Still a great vehicle but we’re stuck with it unless you're willing to take a hit. So I'll enjoy driving it as far as possible.

 

[TaxmanHog]

I did about 7k miles in the truck in the past 2 years. I prefer my bike (Dang 21K miles this year). I only drive it during crap weather. Glad I purchased extended warranty.
So next up is a new Ducati. I think my decat Pikes Peaks edition has been thru enough.

I just brought home a new HD Road Glide CVO-ST, 121" of pure joy!!

 

[Hammick]

Two of my teenage cousins died in a single car accident reportedly caused by another car driven by other teenagers. I remember how I was driving when I was younger. Completely oblivious to the risks I was surrounded by. Although lightning may be slightly safer for your son, it is a deadly weapon to others. I highly recommend something underpowered for his first car. I never tried anything stupid with my Frontier (140 hp) because I simply would look stupid trying. When I floored it, it would just get louder with no noticeable difference in speed. That is a perfect first car for a teenager.

Sorry for your loss. I was shocked at how fast the Lightning was when I bought it given its size and weight. It's a half second faster than our Ioniq 5 AWD 0-60 and the Ioniq seems plenty fast. It certainly could cause a lot of carnage in the hands an immature kid, especially since they usually have one hand on the wheel and the other on their phone.

Do our Lightnings have the ability to dial down the power in the settings like some other cars? If not, Ford should certainly add that and the ability to control it through the app.

Personally I would never let a kid drive my Lightning even if just going to the grocery store.

 

[Lightningwaiter]

I’m curious what your thoughts are for when you plan to trade or sell the truck?

Drive it till the wheels fall off?

Trade at 100k miles, when the warranty is done?

Trade in at 90k miles?

I’m just learning about the front end of buying/living with an EV, but I don’t know what folks are doing on the back end.

Is there “best time” to move onto another?

I’d rather not be buying a new vehicle every few years.

No plans to Trade in. Today is my one year anniversary of having the truck and it has been the best vehicle I have ever owned. The lighting is an amazing truck. My history is own a vehicle for 5 or so years, we will see where the value is after a few years.

 

[TaxmanHog]

Do our Lightnings have the ability to dial down the power in the settings like some other cars? If not, Ford should certainly add that and the ability to control it through the app.

No, but the Mykey options does allow for speed limits but not power restrictions.

 

[Maxx]

Do our Lightnings have the ability to dial down the power in the settings like some other cars? If not, Ford should certainly add that and the ability to control it through the app.

I have gamified the driving for myself keeping the energy bar in both directions (acceleration and deceleration) bellow 20% for 99% of my drives. Hopefully, it will keep, battery, tires and other components last a little longer while it gives me added range and keep my passengers more comfortable.

I am still working on that 1% short lived moments of insanity.

 

[Hammick]

I have gamified the driving for myself keeping the energy bar in both directions (acceleration and deceleration) bellow 20% for 99% of my drives. Hopefully, it will keep, battery, tires and other components last a little longer while it gives me added range and keep my passengers more comfortable.

I am still working on that 1% short lived moments of insanity.

My Lariat ER could chirp all 4 tires when flooring it under 35mph. This was with the General Crappers. Now that I have Michelin Defenders they just hook up and more whiplash. It's very rare that I floor it in city driving and won't do it if there are any cars or cross streets in site. But sometimes I just have to embarrass the clown in the Challenger or AMG revving their engine at me

 

[chl]

My son will be 15 and starting to drive when my truck is about 12 years old. Tentative plan is to give it to him when he’s old enough, assuming he’s responsible and mature enough to drive a truck with this much power. On the fence about that, so time will tell.

Way too much acceleration to resist for a teenager perhaps, put a governor on it somehow?

 

[Maxx]

I'm excited where battery tech will be in 2033

CATL has 18000 people working in R&D. Things will be definitely more interesting in 2033.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Elect...zero-degradation-in-1000-cycles.819405.0.html

 

[chl]

Two of my teenage cousins died in a single car accident reportedly caused by another car driven by other teenagers. I remember how I was driving when I was younger. Completely oblivious to the risks I was surrounded by. Although lightning may be slightly safer for your son, it is a deadly weapon to others. I highly recommend something underpowered for his first car. I never tried anything stupid with my Frontier (140 hp) because I simply would look stupid trying. When I floored it, it would just get louder with no noticeable difference in speed. That is a perfect first car for a teenager.

Depends on the child of course, but I was a bit of a speed demon as a teenager in my parents old v-8 Chrysler, plenty of speeding tickets.

Then I went around a blind curve on a two-lane country road that was wet and slick too fast and slid into the other lane resulting in a head-on with a pickup truck, no injuries but totaled the Chrysler and the guys old PU. The next car that came around that curve, a caddy, almost ran into the back of us when it slammed on the brakes and skidded too.

We all should have been driving slower but at 16, what did I know? I was more cautious after that especially on wet country roads.

I once floored the Lightning from a stop when the light turned green on a deserted stretch of road and the g-force was ludicrous. So I would not put a teenager or inexperienced driver in one.

 

[chl]

Hopefully I can scrap the batteries whenever my lightning dies

Or replace them with higher-tech higher-capacity ones?

That was the pipe-dream when Nissan first started selling the Leaf, anyway.

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