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Oxford white is work truck white that they’ve used for years. My 07 F250 is oxford white.

Yeah, I foresee a ton of people cancel their reservations when the build price comes online. I’d like a lariat with only a few options like towing functionality and I don’t think I’m going to be very impressed when I finally get to price it out this fall.

Agree. We need to ensure the energy independence of our nation. As long as we’re using oil for ICE vehicles, we can only use oil, very few other options. If we switch to electric vehicles we can at least choose how we want to generate electricity, whether it be from coal, nuclear, natural gas...

Basically, Ford doesn’t want a bunch of retail customers piling into low profit margin ER Lightning Pro models. They want us all to buy the XLT for $$$$ more so they take away basic features many people want. I know I love my keypads on the door, so handy.

Sounds like a bogus response to me. “At this time”. I read that like I should expect ADM when it gets closer to delivery. Such BS. If my dealer pulls that crap on me I’m moving to a different dealer without ADM, even if it’s several states away and never doing business with the ADM dealer again...

Will it have the locking rear end standard? That and skid plates are the two biggest selling points of the FX4.

I don’t like the 22” platinum and 20” lariat wheels much myself. I’m hoping when you place your order that you can select standard f150 wheels as an option.

Thank you for the explanation.

So what are the technical limitations that won’t allow flat towing with this neutral mode?

This is a spot on comment. All this talk of probably not being able to flat tow brings up another question: surely the lightning will have a neutral position on its gear selector, what will this actually do? Will I still be able to put it in neutral and push it out of the way if it’s dead...

Well established engineering terms aside, this is automotive, marketed to the dumb masses like me. Yeah, I read somewhere that the lightning has two different gear ratios front/rear as well. I’d still like to believe Ford is smart enough to have a flat tow solution from the factory.

Using the word “transmission” is as confusing as Ford calling it a “transaxle” since nearly every automotive transmission or transaxle since the beginning of cars has had multiple forward and at least one reverse gear, ie, a three speed transmission has three forward gears and a reverse gear. I...

I only used the term “transaxle” because that was the term I saw on the Ford press documents. I’m also guessing it’s more of a directly driven differential but I’m trying not to speculate.

You do have a valid point with high torque. I still believe you could wheel all day on a single charge the way most people I’ve gone 4wheeling with do. They don’t constantly drive the whole day but drive for a bit then stop and take a break or take turns on obstacles.

I think a ev Jeep is a great use scenario if you can tow it to the off-road area. You could probably off road all day on a charge since you’re at low speeds but might not have enough charge to get home making the flat tow ability more important.

If they don’t have flat tow capabilities that’s a huge miss for EV adoption. Hence my questions about the “transaxle”, can it allow wheels to be decoupled from electric motors in such a way to flat tow? Jeep is coming out with a electric Wrangler, I would have to imagine that will be flat...

I have some questions about the powertrain I would have expected Ford to have answered already but haven’t found the answers yet myself. Anybody have insight to my below questions? What is the gear ratio of the transaxle? Is it direct drive or is there a torque converter? How does the low speed...

I’m not gonna show my work but I came up with 157 kWh for the ER battery but your 160 sounds like a much more likely number.

Range. That’s why so low to the ground. If they put it up higher the 300 mile range would suffer. I’m already thinking I would take off the front air dam, put like a 1”-2” lift in and put bigger tires on if I had one.