10 Things to Know About the 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning

[Rangerfan]

Like many folks in the United States my house has no driveway. To charge the Lightning, the cable will be in the street side and subject to collision, just line the driver's side mirror which as be hit twice on my Ranger!
Will there be a option or modification to move the charging port to the right (passenger)side?

 

[Hersbird]

Does anyone know or read if Ford Lightning use regenerative charging when you apply the brake. My son just bought a Volvo CX40 and with it you can drive with brake and gas pedal or you can drive with just accelerator pedal and when you let off the accelerator it automatically stop as it charge the battery. In stop and go traffic you use very little battery.

All EVs, PHEVs, and hybrids have regenerative braking.

Now one petal driving on an EV actually hurts range. Unless you need to slow down, adding regenerative braking automatically when you let off the throttle is bad. Coasting would be better, again assuming you don't need to slow down. If you need to slow down just push on the brakes and the regen kicks in. To always try and regen, and slow the car down, just amplifies the losses that happen in charging and discharging. My Pacifica hybrid when in EV mode would give sort of the same feel as a gas motor compression braking with mild automatic regen braking, but put it in "L" and then had pretty aggressive automatic regen braking, or put it "N" and it would just coast unless you applied the brakes. I personally think just coasting should be the default. Another thing that makes it true one pedal driving is the car will come to a complete stop without putting on the brakes, if it's really good it will use the adaptive cruise control to both stop and then start again when traffic moves.

You say it uses very little battery in stop and go, but it would use even less in just plain go. The regen is not some kind of perpetual motion machine, it has losses.

 

[frunk]

Some people wanted to put lift kits on the Lightning. I asked about that and was told. There is a reason the Lightning is only 9 inch off the ground. It was to keep the center of gravity low for the heavy battery and skid plate. So it would not be a good idea to raise the truck. These are pictures I took.