I’m having a road trip to Brisbane this week and I saw something very unexpected at Thrumster… a RHD converted Ford F-150 Lightning!
As I was driving towards the Superchargers I saw a massive white Ute parked across 2 stations and was mulling over saying a few choice words to the bloke once I parked, but as I got closer I saw the charger cable plugged in and realised what it was and was gobsmacked.
First, this thing is massive. It’s a block of flats on wheels. The F-150s are imported by AusEV and the RHD conversion is done by Advanced Manufacturing Queensland. The owner said the conversion only takes a day to do, but it isn’t cheap (on top of an already extremely expensive imported vehicle) and not perfect. They can’t get the Nav to work in Australia and the CCS2 charging is flaky. He couldn’t get it to charge on the V3 chargers at Thrumster but apparently V2s are OK.
Battery is about 130 kWh . He said the range shown on 100% charge is about 450 km and it gets about 320 Wh/km, but towing big trailers (which he’s done) can halve that to over 600 Wh/km. It was very weird seeing such a massive ute drive off nearly silently .
Photos taken with permission and I obscured the plate. I have other photos but the owner is in the frame so I won’t post those.
PS. Thrumster is a much nicer SC site than Cassegrain.
As I was driving towards the Superchargers I saw a massive white Ute parked across 2 stations and was mulling over saying a few choice words to the bloke once I parked, but as I got closer I saw the charger cable plugged in and realised what it was and was gobsmacked.
First, this thing is massive. It’s a block of flats on wheels. The F-150s are imported by AusEV and the RHD conversion is done by Advanced Manufacturing Queensland. The owner said the conversion only takes a day to do, but it isn’t cheap (on top of an already extremely expensive imported vehicle) and not perfect. They can’t get the Nav to work in Australia and the CCS2 charging is flaky. He couldn’t get it to charge on the V3 chargers at Thrumster but apparently V2s are OK.
Battery is about 130 kWh . He said the range shown on 100% charge is about 450 km and it gets about 320 Wh/km, but towing big trailers (which he’s done) can halve that to over 600 Wh/km. It was very weird seeing such a massive ute drive off nearly silently .
Photos taken with permission and I obscured the plate. I have other photos but the owner is in the frame so I won’t post those.
PS. Thrumster is a much nicer SC site than Cassegrain.
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