The F-150 Lightning Lightning has no bigger brother.
Ford now has an all-electric rival in America’s top-selling segment, the F150 Lightning. The automaker has received almost 200,000 reservations. This suggests that there will be strong demand for the zero emission truck. You might also expect Ford to offer all electric versions of larger trucks. However, this won’t be true.
Recently, the automaker admitted that it does not have plans to build an electric Super Duty truck. “At this time, we don’t have any plans to enter heavy-duty with electric vehicles,” Kumar Galhotra (Ford president of Americas and International Markets Group), recently stated during a meeting with industry analysts. But why? But we do have theories.
Simply put, the expected lower towing rating of an electric Super Duty truck is what we believe the reason for this. The F-150 Lightning’s maximum towing capacity is 10,000 pounds (4,536 kg), which is approximately 4,000 lbs (1 814 kg) lower than the F-150 with a higher combustion engine.
The same calculations are used for Super Duty, which has a 30 percent lower towing capacity. This would mean that even the most powerful electric Super Duty could tow approximately 17,000 lbs (7.711 kg). This would make it slightly more powerful than the F-150 with a gas engine, which will certainly impact its sales.
This is our theory, but it doesn’t have to be true. Remember that the electric vehicle market, including the EV truck, is growing rapidly. With the constantly evolving technologies, Ford might offer you a battery powered Super Duty. However, that day will not come today.