Ford F-150 Lightning Tire Comparison: All Season vs All Terrain

Great video Tom. I just order my Lightning and I can’t wait to have it in my driveway. Your videos with help me with the learning curve of being a first time EV our. Keep the videos coming!!!

Your videos are always very informative! I recently put a slide-in camper on my Lightning and the Grabbers did great from Folsom to Rohnhert Park (Ca) although I noticed an ever-so-slight bulge in the rear tires and got worried. I replaced it with Nitto Recon Grappler and my mileage went down to 220'ish 1.7kw from Owens Valley 395 highway to South Lake Tahoe last weekend.

Really great editting and tables to help explain.

Great stuff as always Tom. I have the Generals on my Lightining too. I just found a similar improvement towing my 19' GeoPro camper. It had Westlake brand offroad tires on it, which were totally unnecessary for me so I replaced them with BF Goodrich Endurance tires, which are a general purpose RV tread pattern. I towed from my home near Pittsburgh to Sinnemahoning SP in northern PA, a 144 mile trip one way. I improved from 1.1 to 1.3 m/kw compared to the same trip last fall. As you can imagine, any improvement in efficiency while towing is significant especially with only one DC fast charger near my route. Tire manufacturers are beginning to offer tires designed specifically for electric vehicles. I hope as they apply advancements in material technologies, they will produce tires with lower rolling resistance. A good subject for a future video.

Thanks Tom. I was wondering about this. I’ve had my lightning for a month now with a couple thousand miles already. This is my first EV and I had never even driven one before it came In. Your videos gave me the confidence to get an all electric vehicle and enter the market for one.

Another good test, thanks. My Lightning Lariat has the General Grabbers and I prefer the look of an A/T. Just using all of these videos to make a better well informed decision also hoping for more A/T EV designs to hit the market

I didn't watch the side by side video but your numbers intro I find interesting. That you did it with the ATs. I'd wonder how the Rivians 2 motor setup would do in comparison. But (haven't finished the video) I recently did a trip to Williamsburg, VA and the road trip was 637 miles roundtrip. I have found that 65-70 is the best spot for highway driving and mi/kWh (maybe i got up to 72 at some point). Your numbers chart in the intro made me chuckle cause I never dipped below 2.2. And as I got closer to home at the end (baby was done being in the car) I went faster and still didn't drop under 2. But of course, I'm using the stock A/S. (never used the A/C). I have a tonneau cover too. Looking back at my logs I started at 100% traveled just under 200 miles (194 but we stopped in Richmond for dinner) and I used 52% of my battery by the time we got to our destination.

tom, great video

I'll bet that the distance difference - is the size of the tires? Even the amount of wear is going to affect the range in two ways. The rolling resistance improves as the tread wear, and actually aero drag is reduced with tread wear. And certainly the tire diameter is going to affect the distance that is recorded AND it will affect the speed indicated on the speedometer. The best way to figure the actual speed is to go with the GPS speed.

Another great video Tom. I sm just curious which one will be more efficient all season tires or Summer tire. Probably not a good comparison on F150, but maybe on a Mustang?

Great video as always! I have been going through all the videos and I just watched your top 10s and I noticed you did put a wrap of some kind of the front light bar. Do you talk about that in any other video? Is there a brand you recommend?

Tread depth is a top correlation to rolling resistance

Great comparison! Ive had my 2023 lightning for a week, and live in snow country. Were both of the tires the same load range? I’ve found that the higher load range tires with heavier weight, and stiffer sidewalls affect the rolling resistance more than tread patterns, within reason f course. All bets are off with dedicated mud tires.

Interestingly, I'm looking at the reverse - replacing the all-terrain tires on my Rivian with General Grabber all-seasons! (To get some extra miles specifically when towing.) I already have a second set of Rivian 20" wheels (the "Bright" wheels that look to be a little more aerodynamic) to mount them on, just waiting for my local tire ship to get the Grabbers in stock.

I would love to see a new range test with the new Toyo Open Country AT3 EV tires.

Great video as always. When you do your Rivian R1S can you do a range test with and without the aero covers ?

Hey Tom, Marques sent me to your channel.

KO2s are great but definitely not the most efficient tires, I run them on my 3.5 Ecoboost f150 and I lost about 5-8ish% mpg going to KO2 LT tires on 18s from the stock Hankook Dynapro ATMs on 20s.

Thanks so much for this, Tom! My Lariat came with the A/T tires and I always wondered how much range I was losing. Would you say your BFG tires are pretty comparable in rolling resistance to the tire included with the 2023 Lariats?

Can we get a range test in the summer for windows down versus ac at 70 degrees?