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Do you think that everyone who buys a pickup truck regularly uses the truck bed? Or do they more likely have it "just in case"? There's a lot to be said about certain "aspirational" purchases.


No, but I do. I also regularly tow 10,000 lbs hundreds or thousands of miles.


Then this is very obviously not the vehicle for you.


I hope they deliver this:

https://insideevs.com/news/590878/ford-f-150-lightning-remov...

I already have a 3500 watt propane powered generator we keep in the bed of our truck for our rv, so I've been wondering what barriers there were to charging while driving and then I came across the above article.


You are not the target customer


But I am.

I've owned a F-150 for 15 years, drove it until the wheels fell off, much of it towing our RV trailer around the Southwest US and California coast.

When it finally was time, we upgraded to an F-250 (but kept the same trailer, which is at thr top end of the towing capability of F-150's but much more fun to tow with an F-250).

We also live in SOMA in San Francisco, park our truck in an underground garage, and pay some of the highest fuel prices around.

I would argue I'm the exact target customer. If they can satisfy my needs (desires really) with an electric truck, they've won the battle.

They haven't cracked it quite yet, but with something like this I think they can:

https://insideevs.com/news/590878/ford-f-150-lightning-remov...


I hear you! Sounds like an awesome way to use your truck. But what I'm getting at is the question of if lots of/most F-150 owners tow anything at all? Or tow regularly enough to care like you care? Is this really for the folks who just want a truck rather than the folks who actually use it?


It seems that 75% fall into the bucket you mention:

https://www.thedrive.com/news/26907/you-dont-need-a-full-siz...




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