Sport Mode all the time

[Lytning]

*As long as you avoid accelerating at the exact same speed as gravity while utilizing or generating zero electricity. That mode usually results in harming the truck.

It is actually the following rapid deceleration which results in the harm.

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[Zed]

Really?? Unless they've put air suspension on the 2024 Lightnings, this is just totally incorrect. Written by a salesperson, apparently. There's another place where it mentions that sport mode changes suspension stiffness....

I agree that Sport Mode has some useful features, but a Ford dealer posting these kind of factual inaccuracies makes me sad.

 

[TaxmanHog]

Really?? Unless they've put air suspension on the 2024 Lightnings, this is just totally incorrect. Written by a salesperson, apparently. There's another place where it mentions that sport mode changes suspension stiffness....

I agree that sport mode has some useful features, but a Ford dealer posting these kind of factual inaccuracies makes me sad.

Do we have active dampening ????

 

[Zaptor]

I agree that Sport Mode has some useful features, but a Ford dealer posting these kind of factual inaccuracies makes me sad.

100%, now it has me doubting the veracity of the rest of the article, since it is unsourced...
-Zap

 

[Firn]

You never get something for nothing. The quicker you achieve 60 mph the more fuel you'll use . That goes for diesel, gas or electric.

I mean, this is an old comment, but it's still incorrect.

The harder you accelerate the higher the rate by which you consume energy, however you also accelerate for a shorter period of time. The energy used is very very similar regardless of how hard you accelerate.

ICE vehicles have brake specific power curves, they change rpm, and they change the amount of fuel being delivered. Accelerate very slowly in a gas engine and it will stay near 14.7:1, but accelerate quickly and it will be closer to 12:1. The engines efficiency, which is separate from power, also changes. Essentially you use more gas when accelerating hard because the engine gets less efficient so that it can make more power.

 

[Firn]

100%, now it has me doubting the veracity of the rest of the article, since it is unsourced...
-Zap

I wouldn't be too upset, Ford did have active suspension available for the Lariate and up however I do believe they discontinued it. He is wrong about the lightning, but that may just be outdated info.

 

[Zed]

Do we have active dampening ????

I have never seen anything about having that. I would think if we did, Ford would be making noise about it being there. I remember looking at the rear shocks when I installed the splash guards and did not see any actuator or electrical connection on them.

 

[Zed]

I wouldn't be too upset, Ford did have active suspension available for the Lariate and up however I do believe they discontinued it. He is wrong about the lightning, but that may just be outdated info.

According to this R&T article, active damping was introduced with the Gen14 trucks:
https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a36276736/2021-ford-f-150-updates/

But Google AI says no active suspension on the Lightning:
No, the Ford F-150 Lightning does not have an active suspension system, but it does have an independent rear suspension

 

[Firn]

According to this R&T article, active damping was introduced with the Gen14 trucks:
https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a36276736/2021-ford-f-150-updates/

But Google AI says no active suspension on the Lightning:
No, the Ford F-150 Lightning does not have an active suspension system, but it does have an independent rear suspension

Sorry, I didn't clearly state "for the gas trucks", i see how that was ambiguous.

I don't believe it was ever offered on the Lightning, it was available on the Gas trucks for a while however.

Edit. Ambiguous not ambitions...ugh...

 

[Zed]

Sorry, I didn't clearly state "for the gas trucks", i see how that was ambitious.

I don't believe it was ever offered on the Lightning, it was available on the Gas trucks for a while however.

Understood and agreed!

 

[OMO7]

The harder you accelerate the higher the rate by which you consume energy, however you also accelerate for a shorter period of time. The energy used is very very similar regardless of how hard you accelerate.

 

[Grumpy2]

I drove about a year in "normal" mode. Now I have driven several months in "sport" mode while in town. All on the same roads and spanning various weather and traffic conditions. I have found about a 5% increase, from say 2.0 to 2.1 in efficiency while using "sport" in town.

The 5% could be equal to, or at least partially due to the number of times I used some friction brakes during a unexpected stop in busy town traffic. The "sport" regen fits well with my driving such that friction brakes are never required until I come to a complete stop.

I don't like sport on the open highway in light traffic where the "normal" regen equates well to ICE compression from my decades of driving, it is just too jerky.

 

[Firn]

Do you disagree?

 

[Jseis]

I use Sport because of steering feel. If you want good steering feel, pump your tires to 45 psi. I drive mostly rural roads at 45-58 mph & long term winter-summer average is 2.4 mi/kwh. As soon as it gets icy in the morning I’ll switch to Normal & no 1-pedal which I’ve learned to dislike.

 

[OMO7]

Do you disagree?

There's no agree or disagree. It's true or false.

Take 2 identical trucks to a drag strip and run them each 5 times. The 1st truck you floor it every single time. The 2nd truck you accelerate gracefully. Do you really think that after 5 runs they're going to use the same amount of energy?

Incase you still don't understand lets compare it to something that everyone can agree on. You get better mileage going 65mph than you do going 80mph. By your logic both trucks should use the same amount of energy because at 80 mph you're driving for a shorter period of time.

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