Ford F-150 Lightning: Can it Really Tow our Airstream?

I suppose the question isn’t whether a Ford Lightning can tow an Airstream but should be “how far can a Lightning tow an Airstream@.

I just watched another YouTuber do a towing test on the lightning towing a 20 foot, 6000 lb rv bumper pull trailer. This 150 had the big extended range battery. At 100% battery the unladen range was estimated at 278 miles. After entering their trailer information range was reduced by an estimated 105 miles. In reality they made it a grand total of 88 miles from 100%. They couldn’t even make it from point A to B of 129 miles without having to turn around and limp back to a charger. At the charger they had 9 miles remaining before shutoff. After charging 45 minutes they were only at 75%. No thank you! Totally impractical for real world use.

OK I jumped for joy when i saw the title of this!!!! We have an Airstream 27FB which we're currently towing with a GMC 3500 Duramax Allision Dually Clearly overkill but you don't even know the trailer is back there. We have a reservation in for a Lightening XLT with the bigger battery so we're asking all the same questions. We camp mostly in the southwest so we'll see. Our rig is 30a so the Lightening can hog the 50 A lol

Loved all your videos especially this one with the F150 lightning review. 1 problem I see is in RV parks those power pedestals are only designed and wired to support the 50 amp outlet. The 30amp is tapped off of one leg of that 50 amp service And most codes only allow one or the other outlet to be in use at the same time. I'm an electrical power engineer And run into this type of usage a lot which normally only the wire burns. Again love you are KYD videos and keep them coming thank you

When they allow electric vehicle charging at RV parks the night fees will increase drastically!!!! Our neighbours have a Tesla SUV they say in the winter the battery range can be almost 60% of what it is in the summer. They ended up buying another SUV just because they couldn’t make it long distances to more remote areas where their parents live in northern Alberta. Still a few years away before they will match the usefulness of the ICE trucks for sure.

That’s awesome that you get to drive the Ford Lightning with your trailer. I definitely appreciate you sharing your experience.

Ford F150 PowerBoast Hybrid is a much better choice for the full time RV'er. Great towing capacity, built in 30 amp generator and exceptional MPG when not towing. Been waiting for mine since ordering it on 2/2/22. Schedule to arrive the end July. EV towing still has a long way to go. Thanks for the quick test.

Excellent video. My husband is in the bus business and Ford is going to electric like crazy. Issues with distance vs available charging stations is a big concern for us. We were just at a conference in Montana and didn’t take an electric vehicle due to the route we were on and a massive lack of stations. I think you did a great job showing what awesome vehicles these are while presenting the limitations for RVers. God bless.

Thank you for doing this. I agree that 100 mile range is not enough. 300 + miles is a must in the west.

What the heck! You didn't blow the air horns at the end, when you left the dealership. As a truck driver, I am deeply disappointed. 😂 😂

Best Ford truck to tow the Airstream is the Power boost. I tow small 22 FB and get great mileage the pro power on board power everything on my Airstream. Great Video

One little piece of information I'm not sure you guys know about. Ford actually makes Accessory cameras that you can attach to the back of your RV (or any trailer) and it will actually pop up as an option on the dash when you're in reverse, similar to the hitch view button. Seems like something like that would be extremely useful to you guys! Great video as always!

Great video, love the reaction when Trish starts to drive it. If you were a 2-truck family, that would definitely be Trish's vehicle!

I absolutely love the new names you give Trish every episode!!! The previous video before this one I laughed out loud and this one just made me laugh and love you guys even more! Great videos ❤️

Full-time rv'r here since January 2018 and i appreciate your hard work and dedication to put out information to the rv community and alike. Thank you, KYD! I like ford products but we will not be in the market on any electric truck at this time to pull our rv specially for a heavy toy hauler fifth wheel. We will keep our current 2017 super duty diesel we purchased new in 2017 to keep on pulling our rv. One other positive with our diesel truck is that, we will be 3 to 4 hours ahead in time to a new site before someone with a ford lightning truck charged and ready to catch up...lol.

Marc, in February we purchased the powerboost f150 in anticipation of pulling a towable in the loaded weight range of 8500-9k. She has the 7.2kw on board and 1863 payload, with max tow package. No 4x4 but locking rear differential. So far unloaded mpg avg. is 21.6. Love the truck. Can't wait to do some boondocking. Thanks for the video.

One note, when charging an EV, the last 20-30% takes the longest, so your test was a little flawed since you were charging with the battery mostly full. When the battery is mostly discharged, it will charge much faster, but will slowly taper down to the speed you saw later in the charge.

89% range is over 3/4 of a tank of fuel. It’s say you are only going to get 104 miles. TAKE IT BACK! This is why battery power will never be for those of us that want to get somewhere. Thanks for the confirmation on how inefficient these things are. Love your videos. Keep’em coming.

I know you guys said a few times in the video why you were doing the review as if you needed to explain because it was different content for you. For me I’m glad you made it, this is a setup I’m considering and there is not a lot out there. Thanks for the info.

Thanks for the review. My significant other is looking for a truck to replace his suv and has been intrigued by this E version. While we don't plan to tow (we are looking to do VanLife in a few years) this really helped since local dealers to us don't have any of this truck on the lot.