Ford F-150 Lightning
Charging curve · consumption · motorway range
The Ford F-150 Lightning has 131 kWh of usable battery and peaks at 155 kW on a DC charger. In this app's model it uses about 323 Wh/km at a steady 100 km/h and 464 Wh/km at 130, so 44% more energy per kilometre buys you 30 km/h more speed. Weigh that against a 58-minute 10-80% charging stop and you have the whole question of how fast to drive.
- Usable battery
- 131 kWh
- Peak DC power
- 155 kW
- 10-80% charge
- 58 min
- Average kW 10-80%
- 94 kW
- Mass, loaded
- 2950 kg
- Top speed
- 180 km/h
DC charging curve
Charging power against state of charge, on a charger fast enough not to be the limit. Peak power is 155 kW, but it has halved by about 63% state of charge. That is why a short stop low down the curve usually beats a long one near the top.
How long a stop takes
| Charge from | Time | Energy added | Average power |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10% to 80% | 58 min | 91.7 kWh | 94 kW |
| 20% to 80% | 53 min | 78.6 kWh | 88 kW |
| 10% to 60% | 33 min | 65.5 kWh | 120 kW |
| 20% to 70% | 39 min | 65.5 kWh | 102 kW |
| 80% to 100% | 71 min | 26.2 kWh | 22 kW |
The curve, point by point
| State of charge | Power |
|---|---|
| 0% | 90 kW |
| 5% | 150 kW |
| 10% | 155 kW |
| 20% | 150 kW |
| 30% | 135 kW |
| 40% | 120 kW |
| 50% | 100 kW |
| 60% | 82 kW |
| 70% | 62 kW |
| 80% | 45 kW |
| 90% | 25 kW |
| 100% | 10 kW |
Consumption and range by cruise speed
Steady motorway cruising on flat road in mild weather, from the fitted model Wh/km = 118 + 0.0205 · v². The “usable range” column is the honest one for trip planning: it is 100% down to 10%, because nobody arrives on empty.
| Cruise speed | Consumption | Range (full pack) | Usable range (100 to 10%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 90 km/h | 284 Wh/km | 461 km | 415 km |
| 100 km/h | 323 Wh/km | 406 km | 365 km |
| 110 km/h | 366 Wh/km | 358 km | 322 km |
| 120 km/h | 413 Wh/km | 317 km | 285 km |
| 130 km/h | 464 Wh/km | 282 km | 254 km |
| 140 km/h | 520 Wh/km | 252 km | 227 km |
| 150 km/h | 579 Wh/km | 226 km | 204 km |
| 160 km/h | 643 Wh/km | 204 km | 183 km |
What the model does not include
- Elevation. The trip planner does account for climbs and descents; the range figures on this page are flat-road, so an alpine route will come out worse than the table.
- Temperature. These are mild-weather numbers. Cold raises consumption and cuts the charging curve. The planner models both. The numbers on this page do not.
- Wind, rain, roof boxes, payload and tyre choice, all of which move real consumption more than most people expect.
- Charger-side limits. The charging times above assume the site can deliver whatever the car asks for. A 150 kW cabinet shared with the car next to you will not.
Where these numbers come from
A 2.7-tonne brick: the quadratic term is roughly double a saloon's, so speed costs it far more than it costs anything European in this list. Approximated from published EPA figures and fast-charge tests. American cars are rated on the EPA cycle rather than WLTP, and the consumption fit here is a motorway fit, so it will not reproduce an EPA range figure — that is the point, since EPA combined understates a 120 km/h cruise badly. America's best-selling vehicle in electric form, and the clearest case in the catalog for slowing down: a huge pack that charges no faster than a VW ID.4.
What speed should you actually drive?
It depends on your route, on where the fast chargers happen to be and how the legal limits fall. Plan the real trip and the simulator will sweep every cruise speed against this car's curves and tell you which one arrives first.
Plan a trip in the F-150 Lightning