Two Ford F-150 Lightnings race 1,000 miles from New Jersey to Florida. One Lightning can solely cost at Tesla Superchargers and the opposite at Electrify America stations.
After we first heard that this race was going down, we thought that the Lightning charging at Tesla Superchargers would have an enormous benefit however, because it seems, that was not the case.
Get Totally Charged
Ford EVs can now cost at Tesla Superchargers utilizing the brand new NACS adapter.
However does this imply that Ford EVs can journey lengthy distances faster than earlier than? To search out out, two Lightnings drove 1,000 miles in a race to match Tesla Superchargers to Electrify America stations. The top result’s that each electrical vehicles arrived on the last cease inside minutes of one another.
InsideEVs’ Tom Moloughney (uploader of this State Of Cost Lightning race video) said:
Kyle Conner from Out Of Spec and I pit the Tesla Supercharger Community in opposition to the Electrify America community and race two Ford F-150 Lightning over 1,000 miles from New Jersey to Florida.
Okay, so the groups are as follows:
Tom Moloughney (State Of Cost and InsideEVs) and co-driver: Crew CCS1 (Electrify America chargers) in a Ford F-150 Lightning Kyle Conner (Out Of Spec) and co-driver: Crew NACS adapter (Tesla Superchargers) in a Ford F-150 Lightning
The race was 1,014 miles for Crew CCS1 (Electrify America) and 1,002 miles for Crew NACS (Superchargers). The distinction in mileage is because of the proximity of chargers alongside the route. The journey took 18 hours and 29 minutes for Crew CCS1, with driving accounting for 15 hours and 9 minutes and charging taking 3 hours and 20 minutes (Crew NACS needed to cost for 3 hours and 41 minutes. Each Lightnings adopted a self-imposed velocity restrict of 10 miles per hour over the posted velocity restrict.
The Lightning that used Electrify America stations arrived on the last vacation spot at 11:09 AM on March 3, 2024. Not but understanding if that they had gained or misplaced, they drove the lightning across the car parking zone for a number of minutes earlier than recognizing the opposite Lightning already on web site. Crew Electrify America had misplaced by simply 4 minutes to Crew Tesla Supercharger. Simply 4 minutes. Not the result we or anybody else seemingly anticipated.
In fact, that would not have been the result if Electrify America websites had been down however throughout this race, the group lucked out and located working chargers alongside your complete route.
Pizza For the Loss?
Since this was a race, there was no time to cease to eat. Crew Tom introduced frozen pizzas. Crew Kyle had potato chips. Nevertheless, these frozen pizzas needed to be cooked and that required an electrical oven. Tom plugged the oven into the outlet within the Lightning and cooked two pizzas, every for ten minutes. That undoubtedly consumed some vitality however was it sufficient to require 4 extra minutes of charging? We do not know the reply but when it is sizzling pizza or potato chips, we might go for the pizza too.
Useless Lightning?
Crew Kyle had a difficulty alongside the way in which. Whereas heading to the subsequent charger, the Lightning started to lose energy. Regardless that the automobile’s show confirmed some remaining vary, the Lightning was dying. Speeds drop from 70 mph, to 60, to 50 after which a bit later the truck involves a halt some 500 ft from the charger. It needed to be pushed the remainder of the way in which, however as soon as charged again up, every part functioned as anticipated.