Ford kills the All-Electric F-150

Re:Ford kills the All-Electric F-150 by ssl-3 on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @12:58AM (#46285273)

When I was a kid, a normal-sized American adult could open up a bed-width toolbox, look down inside of it, and easily remove a few bags of groceries before re-closing the lid -- all while standing flat-footed on the ground beside their normal-sized American truck.

Things are not that way anymore; trucks got bigger.

The top of the bed rail of an F150 Lightning is around chin height for a lot of folks: https://imgur.com/ZBOBqJc

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Re:Ford kills the All-Electric F-150 by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @01:18AM (#46285379)

I don’t think a F150 lightning is wider than a 1985 Silverado.

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Re:Ford kills the All-Electric F-150 by ssl-3 on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @01:27AM (#46285439)

It's not the width that's a problem, but the height.

Here's a brochure for the first-year F-150 (1984): https://xr793.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/1984-Ford-F-Ser...

Have a look at some of the pictures that have people standing next to the truck.

They'd be giants if they were able to have that kind of posture next to a modern F150.

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Re:Ford kills the All-Electric F-150 by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @01:40AM (#46285502)

Oh, I was a smaller kid back then and I guess I wouldn’t find it very accessible either way. Also my dad was tall. Coolers fit in the back also if you want to use those instead.

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