UNEXPECTEDLY: Reviewer Exposes EV Truck’s ‘Kryptonite’ After Trip Takes 3 Hours Longer Than It Should’ve.

[Henry] Payne, an auto critic for the Detroit News, set out to travel from Detroit to Charlevoix, Michigan. His trip was to be around 280 miles, and he was driving a new 2022 F-250 Lightning EV.

Payne wrote that he charged the truck to a full 100 percent charge ahead of the trip, and that the manufacturer claimed that a full charge should have allowed him to travel the whole distance without another charge.

But it wasn’t even close.

Payne wrote that as he sat at his third charging station of the day, another driver asked what sort of mileage he was getting on his roughly $93,000 EV truck.

“I’m getting about 170 miles of range on this trip up I-75,” he told the other driver. “How about you?”

The man replied, “I’ve got the turbo-6 cylinder. I’m getting 600 miles and 22 mpg. I don’t think I’ll ever get one of those electrics.”

At the bottom of his tale of woe, Payne reeled off the F-150 Lightning’s statistics, which included that it was supposed to have a 320-mile travel range on a full charge. But Payne only got about 170 miles down the road before he had to find a charger.

Read the whole thing, which is a preview of California’s future. Speaking of which:

Flashback: How It Started: California will ban sales of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035.

—NPR, August 25th.

How it’s going: Californians are urged to avoid charging electric vehicles, days after state announced ban of new sales of gas-powered cars by 2035.

—The Blaze, August 31th.

In accordance with the prophecy:

(Via Small Dead Animals’ recurring “We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars” series.)