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Too long a wait. Too high a price. I'm one of those who believed Ford's teaser in their first F150L announcement that the extended range F150L would be just $10K more than the bare bones standard range.
In many ways my 2005 Ford Explorer Sport Trac has more capability than the F150L. The 2.4 miles/kWh just wouldn't work as well as the 3.0 miles/kWh (even account for AC-to-DC conversion) I'm getting from the 2022 Hyundai Ioniq 5 Limited RWD EV I wound up getting in June.
One reason I was looking at the F150L is because it's truck shape is easy for us tall people to get in and out of (unlike the clown cars many EV's are). But the I5 is great for us tall people -- and a lot better throughput and with faster charging than the F150L. Thus, with my 20kW of home solar (I upgraded this year) and 92kWh of battery storage I'm almost always able to power my all electric two story home and charge my EV without pulling from the grid. If I had a low miles/kWh F150L I'd had have to pull from the grid more often to still drive as many miles as we drive the I5.
So I'll keep my ICE pickup. We drive it every once in a blue moon when we have pickup type chores or have to split up into 2 cars for the day, or take a trip through a charging desert. Except for those times, we're happily putting most of our miles into the Ioniq 5 EV -- and loving it!
In many ways my 2005 Ford Explorer Sport Trac has more capability than the F150L. The 2.4 miles/kWh just wouldn't work as well as the 3.0 miles/kWh (even account for AC-to-DC conversion) I'm getting from the 2022 Hyundai Ioniq 5 Limited RWD EV I wound up getting in June.
One reason I was looking at the F150L is because it's truck shape is easy for us tall people to get in and out of (unlike the clown cars many EV's are). But the I5 is great for us tall people -- and a lot better throughput and with faster charging than the F150L. Thus, with my 20kW of home solar (I upgraded this year) and 92kWh of battery storage I'm almost always able to power my all electric two story home and charge my EV without pulling from the grid. If I had a low miles/kWh F150L I'd had have to pull from the grid more often to still drive as many miles as we drive the I5.
So I'll keep my ICE pickup. We drive it every once in a blue moon when we have pickup type chores or have to split up into 2 cars for the day, or take a trip through a charging desert. Except for those times, we're happily putting most of our miles into the Ioniq 5 EV -- and loving it!
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