To everyone being skeptical about whether you need that range, happy F-150 Lightning owner here. The rated range is only achievable if you set it to cruise at 6

To everyone being skeptical about whether you need that range, happy F-150 Lightning owner here. The rated range is only achievable if you set it to cruise at 65 mph through a level highway on a 60F day with no wind. In real world, that's never the case. You go 85 mph instead of 65, you lose 30% of the range. The temperature drops to 40-50F, you lose another 20%. You accelerate like you want a 4.0 second car to accelerate, you lose 1 mile of range each time you do that 0-60. You go up a mountain, you lose range. You go against the headwind, you lose range. You try towing a boat or an RV, well, don't even talk about the range to me. Realistically, winter driving around Seattle at reasonably fast speeds (not recklessly fast, but among the top 10% of drivers) gets you half the declared range. If you you are a contractor that only uses the truck to haul stuff to local job sites, you don't care about the battery at all. But if you want to occasionally go skiing, or take kids to a national park, or just go grab some craft beer from Portland, that 500 rated miles vs. 300 rated miles will easily make a difference between not having to worry about charge vs. nervously checking plugshare and trying to guestimate how much miles per kWh you will get in the current weather along that route in today's traffic.