The ability outputs of the brand new lot of electrical pickup vehicles has been dissected for months. Simply as essential are the options that most individuals use in a pickup truck each single day. They're within the cabin; they're hauling stuff; they're utilizing the expertise. That is all essential.
It is a have a look at how the 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning and its present rivals, the 2022 GMC Hummer EV and 2022 Rivian R1T, stack up towards one another in key areas that each day driver consumers are concerned with.
Specs, options and pricing for the upcoming Chevrolet Silverado EV, GMC Sierra EV, and Ram 1500 EV haven't but been revealed.
Energy
Of the lot, the Hummer EV has essentially the most output at 1,000 horsepower (hp), its official EPA-estimated vary is 329 miles. The Rivian R1T has 4 motors, 835 hp and a spread of 314 miles. The F-150 Lightning was simply upgraded to a most of 320 miles with the extended-range battery and 580 hp.
If energy is your precedence, you may't go unsuitable with any of the choices. Even the least highly effective on the checklist, the F-150 Lightning, has greater than sufficient oomph to get the truck down the freeway in a jiffy.
Consolation
Beginning with the scale of the entrance seats, the place homeowners will spend most of their time, the GMC Hummer is the most important in head and legroom with 42.5 and 45.6 inches, as anticipated. The car is greater than 6 inches wider than both the Ford or Rivian, although Ford gives essentially the most entrance seat shoulder and hip room out of the three.
Within the again seat, the place all three vehicles can carry three passengers, the Ford bests each with 40.4 inches of headroom and 43.6 inches of legroom. It leads in shoulder and legroom too, with the Hummer coming in second.
However cabins are extra than simply the scale. They're the lounge of the car, the place drivers loosen up, get entertained and are afforded different conveniences like warmth and therapeutic massage.
Pricing and Worth
It is exhausting to check the F-150 Lightning Professional work truck to Rivian and GMC, not solely as a result of it undercuts their costs by tens of hundreds of dollars, however as a result of its additionally meant for various consumers. We give the Professional glorious marks for its comfy vinyl seating, easy-to-clean flooring and utterly serviceable 12-inch touchscreen show.
To actually examine apples to apples it must be the F-150 Lightning Lariat, which begins at $67,474 earlier than EV tax credit. That cabin comes with the portrait-oriented 15.5-inch touchscreen, leather-wrapped, heated and cooled seats (although they could possibly be extra comfy) and twin-panel moonroof. The Ford additionally has a stowable shifter, making for an even bigger workspace, and wi-fi charging.
Within the Rivian R1T Discover, which is available in at $67,500, consumers get the usual audio system, vegan leather-based heated seats and a heated steering wheel, a textile headliner and recycled ground mats. All R1Ts get a 12-inch driver cluster and 15-inch touchscreen show. It is lovely, however takes a while to study and a few controls ought to simply be bodily. Tuning, local weather and air vent route are all adjusted by the display within the Rivian.
The Journey trim ($73,000) provides perforated vegan leather-wrapped seats with perforation, ventilated seats, wooden finishes versus matte black and Chilewich floormats.
Transferring to the GMC Hummer EV ($110,595 for the Version 1 mannequin, with $80,000-$100,000 variations coming later), the centerpiece is the 13.4-inch touchscreen show, which is complemented by the 12.3-inch driver show. However the actual star is the folding rear seat space that leads into extra coated cargo house, earlier than opening to the truck mattress when much more house is required for the longest cargo.
Cargo House
These new pickups, with powertrains situated within the ground, actually excel relating to cargo house. Ford has its Mega Energy Frunk that's watertight and has 14 cubic toes of house. That space can maintain as much as 400 kilos and it additionally options 4 120-volt retailers and two USB ports.
The Rivian's cargo social gathering trick is the Gear Tunnel in between the mattress and the cab. The pass-through dry cupboard space holds 11.6 cubic toes of stuff in an space that's the full width of the truck at 65 inches lengthy. At that measurement, it suits skis, snowboards and pool cues. The R1T additionally has a entrance truck that measuring 11 cubic toes.
The Hummer EV, along with the intelligent rear storage space, additionally comes with a entrance trunk with 11.3 cubic toes of storage. That is the house usually occupied by the engine.
Of the three EV pickups, the F-150 Lightning's storage may be the neatest, however the Rivian's is extra helpful.
Mattress House
The ultimate key part of truck storage is mattress house. The GMC Hummer EV, as a hybrid truck/SUV, has a smaller mattress quantity than a standard pickup. It measures 58.3 inches lengthy on the prime of field, has a 50.1-inch width between wheel wells together with a 21.7-inch top. That makes for 36.6 cubic toes of house, primarily based on the widely agreed upon calculation for the statistic.
The Ford Lightning has a mattress that is 67.1 inches lengthy and 50.6 inches between the wheelhouses for a measurement of 52.8 cubic toes.
The Rivian is a bit of smaller than the Ford with a mattress of solely 54 inches. Rivian notes that the tailgate and the small panel that covers the hole between it and the mattress are load bearing, which creates a steady house of 83.6 inches. However, with the tailgate up its mattress has a width of fifty.3 inches with a complete of 29.2 cubic toes.
As anticipated, the Ford gives essentially the most historically trucklike house and quantity. However each the Rivian and Hummer EV have their benefits for weirdly formed cargo and cargo that must be protected within the cabin.
The F-150 will doubtless take essentially the most conventional truck consumers, although information thus far says its clients run the gamut. Just like the Rivian and Hummer EV it's bought out for years to return.
The actual battle begins as soon as the early adopter syndrome wears off and the automakers compete on a stage taking part in discipline as soon as once more.
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