Someone Put 234,000 Miles on a Ford F-150 Lightning. Now It’s Time for a New Battery

One of many persistent electric vehicle gripes is that batteries don’t last long enough. Still, as reported by Ars Technica, a recent study found that a majority of EVs maintained 90% of their original battery capacity after roughly 93,000 miles (or 150,000 kilometers). And as this real-world example shows, they’re capable of going a lot further than that. Out of Spec Renew recently did a video on a 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning that needed a battery replacement after covering 233,930 miles. A busted rear window, cracked windshield, and assorted dents and scrapes indicated that those weren’t easy miles, either. However, sourcing a replacement used battery pack and swapping it in…

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