EV Last Mile Deliveries! How Does The Electric Transit By Lightning eMotors Drive?

Kyle is in the Lightning eMotors Tranist 350HD evaluating its driving characteristics in varied environments, as usual!

0:00 - Intro
1:18 - City
7:51 - Last Mile Delivery Simulation
16:31 - Highway Driving
22:15 - Canyon Blast

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0:00 - Intro
1:18 - City
7:51 - Last Mile Delivery Simulation
16:31 - Highway Driving
22:15 - Canyon Blast

[slicksalmon]

This is the truck segment that Tesla missed. Hugely important, particularly given the post-pandemic demise of brick & mortar stores. Way too expensive, though.

[commanderroddi]

"Performance driving in the Canyon" Kyle, I love you for saying that! I think that alone made you my favorite car reviewer!
Having said that, the regular transit pax handles quite nice for a vehicle that size, and the 3.5L Ecoboost has plenty of punch.

[nc]

NIce to see you have fun, fueling around with it....

[eltzrothm]

LOVE the editing! It makes a boring thing so much more interesting.

[irfanhusein]

This is amazing. Having the ability to electrify big vans like this means the all electric mode transportation is no more than 15 years away. 👍🏼

[VPDTDI]

Kyle I think you are doing a tribute to Sabine Schmidt since she died of cancer and ripped a Ford Transit around the Nürburgring they should make a Sabine edition .

[jpq]

This looks fantastic. I really hope your vehicles are listed on GSA. Build Back Better has allocated $5B for vehicle electrification across federal agencies and $7B to the US Postal Service. Those orders should be flowing in January if we get a bill signed by EOY. Great work LeM.

[spooky_slayer]

Very high quality video, very surprised

[Jeddin]

The price was a shock. Unfortunately that’s going to be a deal breaker for most companies that would consider the benefits of the electric power train vs just buying 3 ICE versions for almost the same price.

[cybrtrkguy]

Kyle's out here about to sell the house and live in the van

[mcimon]

That's a great van! But does the motor make a buzzing sound all the time? Because it seems loud on the video.

[philippefagnant]

Are you gonna do the same kind of testing with the 2022 stock e transit? Woul be very interesting to compare both?

[UltramaticOrange]

18:59 LMAO, "Turbo" mode is an old computer thing from the 80s and 90s. It was a button that you hit to slow the computer down so older software correctly.

[LiiMuRi]

Couldn't the company get the vans directly from Ford without the engine and other ICe parts? Weird to pay for a full van and then remove the ICE parts

[lombybedlam]

It is a pity that Ford took as a basis a body from a rear-wheel drive van, it is very convenient for me with a "low floor".
Of course, for a truck, rear-wheel drive is the most correct option ...
Is it going to be a front wheel drive version or a rear wheel drive version with a low floor?

[markrichards]

What road is that? Do you turn around and go back down, or does it loop back

[garyclark]

I wonder what the weight of the retrofitted Transit versus it arriving from Ford with the equivalent amount of gas to make it the amount of miles that the electric conversion could go compares? I drive one but need one that is geared more toward a fixed amount of weight for the longest amount of hall with the biggest amount of charge capable of being carried and not to mention the fastest amount of recharge because it is a round-trip. Great review. 💯

[heathwirt]

So how much battery charge percentage did you recover on the downhill?

[CNCBuddy]

I actually think this may be the most important category of electric vehicle. So lets say your a normal person and drive 10K miles per year at 30 MPH that's less than 1 hour of driving per day. Now look at a company that makes deliveries. They are delivering at least 8 hours per day. Add to that they are idling longer, starting and stopping more. With a full load, you don't want to be behind a delivery vehicle, one because its hard to see around but two it takes them forever to come up to speed. Electric delivery vans come up to speed so much quicker as we all had fun watching combustion cars pull out of the way of Kyle doing 50-60 MPH on an uphill stretch where he gains half a mile of elevation over 10 miles. Plus as a business there are tons of rebates and programs in states like California that makes them much more affordable to buy and certainly more affordable to operate.