[Steelwear]

I have 14,000 kms ( yes I’m in Northern Canada ) but our winter hasn’t been as cold as usual but my range is terrible to the point can’t travel to some places due to range reduction due to cold. Super charger stations are few and far between when going North which wasn’t as big an issue during late summer and fall operation, have followed all the updates from Ford and followed their tips on energy conservation. Full charge (100%) at home overnight gives me 526km of range . At -10C if I want to travel 60km it will take a minimum of 120km off my range. If highway is wet and slushy at all it will jump to 140kms off range.
Haven’t had any -30 C temperatures yet this winter but I know it will drastically reduce my range to the point won’t be able to go anywhere.
Looked at hauling my 24 ‘ fully enclosed snowmobile trailer (3200kg 7000lb GVW) but at 0 C it took my range from 526 km down to 247km . Very fast coming to the conclusion the Lightning is not designed for Northern Canada yet !!
Let me know your findings
Thanks

 

[THEsocalledfan]

I have 14,000 kms ( yes I’m in Northern Canada ) but our winter hasn’t been as cold as usual but my range is terrible to the point can’t travel to some places due to range reduction due to cold. Super charger stations are few and far between when going North which wasn’t as big an issue during late summer and fall operation, have followed all the updates from Ford and followed their tips on energy conservation. Full charge (100%) at home overnight gives me 526km of range . At -10C if I want to travel 60km it will take a minimum of 120km off my range. If highway is wet and slushy at all it will jump to 140kms off range.
Haven’t had any -30 C temperatures yet this winter but I know it will drastically reduce my range to the point won’t be able to go anywhere.
Looked at hauling my 24 ‘ fully enclosed snowmobile trailer (3200kg 7000lb GVW) but at 0 C it took my range from 526 km down to 247km . Very fast coming to the conclusion the Lightning is not designed for Northern Canada yet !!
Let me know your findings
Thanks

I'm in South Dakota, and barely doable here. From North Dakota north into Canada, its tough unless you have lots of high powered DC fast chargers to deal with the range. (and I don't have them either.....)

 

[SHooper]

ICE Vehicles will incurr the same relative drop in range under similar conditions that you're noting. The difference here is that you can get gas just about anywhere when you start towing a trailer in cold conditions, and that tank of gas only takes you half as far. The issue really isn't that the truck is not designed for Northern Canada - the truck works quite well in Northern Canada. It's more about the fact that Northern Canada's charging infrastructure hasn't caught up yet to meet the needs of fully electric vehicles.

 

[THEsocalledfan]

ICE Vehicles will incurr the same relative drop in range under similar conditions that you're noting. The difference here is that you can get gas just about anywhere when you start towing a trailer in cold conditions, and that tank of gas only takes you half as far. The issue really isn't that the truck is not designed for Northern Canada - the truck works quite well in Northern Canada. It's more about the fact that Northern Canada's charging infrastructure hasn't caught up yet to meet the needs of fully electric vehicles.

But even with gas more available, trust me, you need to charge more often than filing up. Let's be honest with people.

 

[Kawartha Lightning]

I probably whine more than anyone on the forum about the cold weather range and agree with you that BEVs are better suited for warm weather conditions and our milder seasons. With that said, I have found that leaving the vehicle plugged in to keep the battery happy and preconditioning does improve range in the colder temperatures and I'm assuming you're doing both of those things in your situation. If not, worth a try. I'm 100 km north of Toronto (you're probably further north than me) and following this protocol gives me on average 3.0 km per kWh (50/50 hwy city)

Not great but not bad. Leaving it plugged in all the time does use energy of course so the 3.0 is an understatement because you do need to leave a plugged in. I don't think that type of passive heating uses much but preconditioning does. In my experience you can use 10 kilowatt hours per day just preconditioning. That + leaving it plugged in all the time can add up to maybe 50 bucks a month (or more) depending on your rates without even driving it anywhere. No one seems to put that requirement into their calcs when comparing it to ICE. That's also why I don't think the 300 mile (500km) claim is legit. The manufacturers should have to express a seasonally adjusted rate and whilst ICE also experience modestly poor mileage in colder temperatures, the order of magnitude is not even in the same ballpark.

I agree with you, hasn't been that cold yet wondering what the experience would be with -20s and minus 30s (Celsius) which can typically and ordinarily occur in the winter.