Many early critiques of the Ford F-150 Lightning have been carried out in gentle climate circumstances. Now, with winter upon us, and chilly and snowy climate making its method into loads of areas throughout the US and Canada, it is time for a correct winter possession evaluate.

YouTube channel Driving.ca out of Canada has answered our needs. They put collectively a video all about how the F-150 Lightning handles winter climate, although it appears that will not have been the unique plan. Once you stay in an space that is far north and close to many giant lakes, circumstances can shortly escalate from superb to harmful.

When the F-150 Lightning and different electrical pickup vehicles have been poised to return to market, there have been many questions on whether or not they’d stay as much as the duties anticipated of right now’s gas- and diesel-powered vehicles. In fact, driving vary was on the highest of many potential house owners’ lists of questions, together with off-road readiness, towing and payload efficiency,  vary whereas towing and hauling, and a lot extra.

At this level, quite a few articles and movies have supplied just about all of the solutions in regards to the F-150 Lightning. Nonetheless, we might put collectively the identical checklist of questions and add “in chilly climate,” or “in snowy circumstances,” and there could be an entire host of latest inquiries to reply.

Driving.ca drove a 2023 Ford F-150 Lightning with the extended-range battery pack on an all-highway journey from Mississauga, Ontario, to Sudbury, Ontario. That is mainly from Toronto, on Lake Ontario, nearly due north alongside the Georgian Bay, parallel to Michigan’s frigid Higher Peninsula. Evidently, circumstances on the over 400-kilometer (~250-mile) journey weren’t superb.

Take into account, even with the bigger battery, the F-150 Lightning is just estimated to journey 320 miles on a cost, and that is in typical climate circumstances, not chilly temps and deep snow. Do you assume the journey was achieved with out a charging cease? What can we be taught from such a voyage? 

Try the temporary video after which scroll down and begin a dialog in our remark part under. Would you purchase an F-150 Lightning in the event you lived in an space with commonly chilly temps and snowy climate? Tell us your ideas.