Ford's CEO admits to a 'reality check'
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Ford's CEO admits to a 'reality check' during F-150 Lightning Route 66 road trip
The Ford CEO said that charging has been 'pretty challenging' while on his road tripFord CEO Jim Farley experienced a common complaint from electric vehicle owners during his cross-country road trip in the automobile maker's electric pickup truck, calling it a "reality check."
"Charging has been pretty challenging," Farley said on X, the social-media website formerly known as Twitter. "It was a really good reality check of the challenges of what our customers go through and the importance of fast charging and what we're going to have to do to improve the charging experience.".
With a 150kW+ DC fast charging, a truck like the Ford F-150 Lightning can go from a 15% charge to an 80% charge in about 40 minutes.
That is fast?
Compared to this, yes.
With a level 2 charger, with a 7kW to 19kW power output, charging can take up to 10 hours. And that it was folks will typically have in their home.
And this
Depending on the conditions, it can take up to 50 hours to fully charge an electric truck.
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Whatever happened to that guy who claimed he could charge a car in 2 minutes or something?
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I agree that there’s a big difference between understanding range anxiety and experiencing it.
It’s probably a good thing for auto execs to traverse that gap. Not that it will speed up the battery researchers, who are already laser focused on the problem, but it will keep the automaker’s expectations in check.
