The Ford F-150 Lightning is among the most landmark EVs launched thus far. Ford modified America’s perennial best-selling automobile to run on electrical energy and provided it, a minimum of at first, for an inexpensive worth. It was good, so long as you weren’t planning to tow something.
One of many key appeals to the F-150 Lightning — setting apart the frunk, the house backup energy and the fast acceleration that lives as much as the nameplate — shouldn’t be having to pay for gasoline, which combustion pickups devour in massive quantities.
How a lot does it value to cost the F-150 Lightning? How less expensive to function is it than a gasoline pickup? It depends upon how and once you cost it.
How a lot does it value to cost a Ford F-150 Lightning?
Ford provides the F-150 Lightning with two battery pack choices: Normal Vary (98 kWh) and Prolonged Vary (131) kWh. As a tough estimate, a “full cost” can be 10-80% (Ford recommends patrons set the restrict at 90%). The common price for family electrical energy in America is 16.68 cents/kWh. That might imply $11.44 to ship a full cost for the Normal Vary F-150 Lightning and $15.30 for the Prolonged Vary truck.
How a lot does it value to cost a Ford F-150 Lightning at house?
Dwelling would be the least expensive place to cost a Ford F-150 Lightning. House owners who can will wish to set up a Degree 2 charger to attain a excessive sufficient price to cost totally in a single day. Dwelling electrical energy charges differ based mostly on location. These variations can dramatically have an effect on the value.
The state with the most cost effective electrical energy price within the U.S. is North Dakota, averaging 10.44 cents/kWh. There, a full cost for an F-150 Lightning would value simply $7.16 for the Normal Vary and $9.57 for the Prolonged Vary pack. Nonetheless, in California, the typical price is 32.47 cents/kWh. Full charging an F-150 Lightning there would value $22.27 for the Normal Vary and $29.77 for the Prolonged Vary.
These native charges are averages, too. Timing additionally impacts the value significantly. Electrical energy is much cheaper throughout off-peak hours, from late evening to early morning than peak hours within the afternoon. So many F-150 Lightning house owners will wish to cost at evening to economize. Some utility suppliers could additional incentivize charging at evening by metering the charger individually and providing a reduced price.
Putting in the charger could erode, if not get rid of, a few of the fast financial savings of Degree 2 charging at house. Ford provides its personal Degree 2 house charging choice for the F-150 Lightning: the Cost Station Professional. Ford contains it without cost with the Prolonged Vary pack. It’s accessible as a $1,310 choice for Normal Vary patrons (different good charging choices might value within the $500 to $600 vary). Ford’s most popular supplier, Sunrun, estimates a base cost for set up at $1,250 to $1,650.
Can the Ford F-150 Lightning cost your private home?
Sure. The Ford F-150 Lightning is able to bidirectional V2H (vehicle-to-home) charging. It could ship as much as 9.6 kW of energy from its battery to the house. Ford estimates {that a} one hundred pc cost on the Prolonged Vary pack can ship full energy to a house for 3 days or as much as 10 with rationing.
Establishing that system, nevertheless, will strategy the price of including a fuel-powered generator. Sunrun estimates a base worth of between $8,900 and $9,400 for {hardware} and set up of the Dwelling Integration System vital for V2H charging.
How a lot does it value to cost a Ford F-150 Lightning on a DC quick charger?
Ford provides the “Blue Oval Cost Community,” primarily a number of totally different networks that combine with Ford’s app. A type of accessible networks for Ford F-150 Lightning house owners is the Tesla Supercharger community. Ford is planning a change to Tesla’s NACS port in 2025. Present F-150 Lightning house owners can cost at a Tesla Supercharger with an adapter (accessible from Ford) or at a Tesla charger outfitted with a CCS magic dock.
Charging on the street at a DC quick charger is often the costliest solution to cost an F-150 Lightning. Motortrend estimated a price of 25 to 50 cents/kWh to cost at a Tesla Supercharger. Tesla can even tack on $1.00 per minute idling and congestion charges. Different charging suppliers could supply comparable charges that greater than double the going price for electrical energy, which, as with house charging, varies based mostly on location and timing.
Presuming a price of fifty cents/kWh, totally charging an Prolonged Vary Ford F-150 Lightning from 10-80% would value about $40.85.
How a lot do you save charging an F-150 Lightning over utilizing gasoline?
Generally, charging a Ford F-150 Lightning at house might be cheaper than filling up a combustion F-150 with gasoline. As of this writing, the typical value of a gallon of gasoline in America is $3.44. Per EPA numbers, a 4×4 V6 Ford F-150 requires 5.3 gallons of gasoline to journey 100 miles, which prices $18.23. A hybrid F-150 requires 4.3 gallons, which prices $14.79.
An Prolonged Vary F-150 Lightning wants 48 kWh of electrical energy to journey 100 miles, costing $8.01 on the common family price, considerably cheaper than the gasoline or hybrid F-150. Nonetheless, fast-charging an F-150 Lightning throughout peak hours on a street journey might exceed the price of fueling a gasoline automobile.
