Who Needs Petrol Power, An Electric Pickup Just Pulled A 625 Ton Train With Ease
Ford&rsquos F-150 electric pick-up truck is used to tow a weight of more than 1 million pounds. The weight comes in the form of 10 double-decker freight cars. Ford will soon make the truck run on batteries. Tesla used its Model X to pull a 560000 pound Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner.
Right after electric vehicle makers realised that electric cars can outperform those running on petrol and diesel engines in almost every manner, they started working on the applications of such electric motors across all vehicle categories. The idea opened the door to electric pick-up trucks, an entity that Tesla promised to offer soon, while others like Rivian are almost done building one. There is, however, an unrivalled make in this category, i.e. of course when we talk about the fossil fuel ones - Ford¡¯s F-150.
For those unaware, Ford¡¯s pick-up truck has had a lineage of 42 years in the US, ranking for long as the most sold pick-up truck in the country. Within the last year, the company managed to sell around 900,000 units of the F-series. There is an impending twist in the future of this truck though. Ford will soon make it run on batteries.
Apparently the company has been working on the electric pick-up truck already, having come up with an all electric prototype of the F150 in a recent video. The truck itself, however, is not the highlight of the reel. It is what Ford does with it that¡¯s exciting. The electric F150 is used to tow a weight of more than 1 million pounds. To put this into the perspective of other metric systems - that is 4.5 lakh kg or simply 500 tons of weight!
The weight comes in the form of 10 double-decker freight cars. The video starts by introducing existing F150 owners and their experience with their vehicles. They are then brought along to witness the act of the electric prototype. Naturally, being the owners of gasoline makes, they are sceptical about the capability of the electric one. All that changes once the F150 electric is set in motion.
The vehicle can be seen easily tugging the large freight cars on its own and almost with no sound whatsoever. Having accomplished this challenge easily, Ford¡¯s chief engineer Linda Zhang then adds 42 gasoline makes of the F150 to the weight, bringing the total to 1.25 million pounds - 5.6 lakh kg. You think it might prove to be difficult for the electric motor but no! The tugging is just as easy and silent as before. Did you really think you could stop an electric pick-up truck with that weight?
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The video is a testimony to the capability of an electric pick-up truck from the house of Ford as and when it makes its way to the market. That being said, this is not the first time that such a demonstration has been held to hail electric vehicles. Tesla used its Model X to pull a 560,000 pound (2.5 lakh kgs) Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner last year. Half the weight used by Ford in this video was enough to prove the prowess of an electric SUV that was meant to haul 5 passengers from one point to another. Even an all electric version of the Mini Cooper managed to pull a Boeing 777F - a near 276 ton cargo plane recently.
On a grander scale, all these experiments eliminate the anxiety associated with electric vehicles. Be it their power, performance factors, charging times, range or of course, the environmental impact, EVs have proved to be better than their counterparts time and again. So maybe it is time that we embrace a completely electric future for our transportation. What do you think? Let us know in the comment section below.
