Ask any vehicle, whether ICE or electric, to do more work than usual and it’s going to guzzle more energy in the process. Anyone who’s pulled a boat or car trailer, or loaded up a pickup with DIY supplies, will tell you that.
In the case of an electric car like a Chevy Bolt there’s unlikely to ever be a huge difference in weight between being lightly laden and fully laden, but it’s a different story with pickups, which are designed (and bought) for serious hauling.
So what happens to the EV range of a modern electric truck when you come close to its payload maximum? AAA tasked its boffins with finding out, getting them to add a stack of weight to a 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning and measure the electric driving range both with and without the ballast.
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