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‘Complete and Total Disaster:’ Ford Electric Truck Utterly Fails YouTuber’s Towing Test
breitbart.com ^ | 9/27/2022 | Alana Mastrangelo

Posted on 09/27/2022 12:00:23 PM PDT by rktman

(I'm just the poster, not the tester)

A YouTuber with 1.4 million followers attempted to tow a 1930 Ford Model A truck with his brand new 2023 Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck, but it ended in “a complete and total disaster.” “If a truck towing 3,500 pounds can’t even go 100 miles — that is ridiculously stupid,” Tyler “Hoovie” Hoover says in his video. “This truck can’t do normal truck things. You would be stopping every hour to recharge, which would take about 45 minutes a pop, and that is absolutely not practical.”

“This is my new 2023 Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck,” YouTuber Tyler “Hoovie” Hoover said in a video in which he tests the electric truck’s towing capabilities, which resulted in “a complete and total disaster.”

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FR-EVers in 3,...2,... I know different circumstances have different results and your's may vary. 😎👌
1 posted on 09/27/2022 12:00:23 PM PDT by rktman
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It didn’t catch fire though! There’s that!

Sorry, couldn’t resist!


2 posted on 09/27/2022 12:03:23 PM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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I see EV’s being situationally practical. An EV golf cart, completely practical. A cheap EV vehicle for in town errands, practical. But as a workhorse, for distance drives, back country... not practical.


3 posted on 09/27/2022 12:03:52 PM PDT by BBQToadRibs2
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To: rktman

You still have a choice you don’t have to buy a piece of crap. Yet


4 posted on 09/27/2022 12:04:10 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: rktman

I have a 23 foot Monterey boat. I was really concerned that any electric vehicle would be able to tow this for any distance or to be able to get the boat out of the water.


5 posted on 09/27/2022 12:04:14 PM PDT by dirtymac ( Now Is The Time For All Good Men To ComeTo The Aid Of Their Country! NOWhx) )
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What a wimp its for the planet he cant stop for a while ever hour screw him


6 posted on 09/27/2022 12:04:24 PM PDT by al baby (Yes i know it was Gere )
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A YouTuber with 1.4 million followers attempted to tow a 1930 Ford Model A truck with his brand new 2023 Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck

He should try towing his Ford Lightning with his Model A to see how far it will tow it.

7 posted on 09/27/2022 12:04:24 PM PDT by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: dirtymac

GOOD luck w/ that


8 posted on 09/27/2022 12:04:49 PM PDT by Paul46360 (What??ME worry?)
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To: seowulf

Now that is a winning post right there.


9 posted on 09/27/2022 12:05:53 PM PDT by calljack (Sometimes your worst nightmare is just a start.)
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To: rktman

assuming you can find a charger every 100 miles down the road

best keep a generator in the bed


10 posted on 09/27/2022 12:07:20 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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Over and under for EVs stranded evacuating Hurricane Ian?


11 posted on 09/27/2022 12:07:46 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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Cut that performance another 30% in winter.

Electric. It’s fun.


12 posted on 09/27/2022 12:08:33 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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HEADLINE: “Tested: How Towing Affects the Electric Pickups—Hummer EV, Rivian R1T, and the Ford F-150 Lightning”

https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a40896618/ev-pickups-towing-test-hummer-rivian-lightning/


13 posted on 09/27/2022 12:09:08 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money)
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To: rktman

That’s what they refuse to tell you, EVs ARE NOT supposed to be practical. In the NWO you will not be allowed to travel very far from home if at all.


14 posted on 09/27/2022 12:09:08 PM PDT by 100%FEDUP (I'm seeing RED!)
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An EV golf cart, completely practical.

That’s all we’ll be allowed - because they don’t want humans leaving Control Zones to mess up Gaia, anyway.

15 posted on 09/27/2022 12:10:12 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: rktman

He bought it KNOWING this would be true.

attention whore.


16 posted on 09/27/2022 12:10:30 PM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: ad ferre non, velit esse sine defensione)
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To: al baby

😂😂😂😂😂😂✌


17 posted on 09/27/2022 12:10:37 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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Does the 150 in F-150 mean 1.5 tons towing capacity?


18 posted on 09/27/2022 12:11:36 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: rktman

Yeah, the usual EV fluffer will be along to straighten all you that reject liberal virtue signaling.


20 posted on 09/27/2022 12:15:06 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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