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My Lightning is the ideal Lightning, bereft of frippery but fitted with the most powerful motors, an homage to its tail-happy namesake. Colwell Ezra Dyer’s $75,839 Lightning XLT

I’d even find a stitched leather cover for the plastic steering wheel. And considering that my truck costs $46,209, I’ll have money left over to cover the vinyl seats with something soft with a 12-volt heating element. I probably wouldn't even pay to wire it up to my house because I already have a level 2 connection in my garage and a generator. Maybe a fishing trip in Northern Michigan. I don’t need the big battery because my duty cycle is just weekend-warrior stuff. I’m going with Oxford White because my ’91 Explorer was the same color. Anyway, that’s $1070 of my $7500 tax credit I am never gonna see. I don’t really need that, but I suppose I might want to go to a tailgate.

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Wait, what? The Max Trailer Tow package, which bumps the tow rating from 5000 pounds to 7700 with the standard-range battery, forces the Pro Power Onboard option.

But value is a key component, which is why my Lightning spec is a Pro and has only three options necessary to do the work I need a truck to do: the Tow Technology ($1950) and Max Trailer Tow ($825) packages and a factory spray-in bed liner ($595). I like luxury items and I’m not afraid to spend money on the things I like. As equipped, my F-150 Lightning rings in at a $75,094, which is a few thousand less than the starting price of the Rivian R1T. The only option I’d add is the Max Trailer Tow package for $825 which unlocks the Lightning’s maximum towing capacity of 10,000 pounds. I think it’s because the truck's grille and 20-inch wheels are the same color and it sort of creates a grayscale effect that I find rather interesting.

I’m not usually a fan of gray vehicles, but on the XLT version of the Lightning the Carbonized Gray Metallic paint somehow works. The XLT model is fairly basic but the extended-range model comes with plenty of convenience features such as a 360-degree exterior camera system, running boards, heated front seats, a heated steering wheel, a 10-way power-adjustable driver’s seat, and Ford’s Co-Pilot360 driver-assistance bundle.

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For now, the Lightning is still eligible for the $7500 electric vehicle tax credit, so that offsets the cost of the upgrade somewhat. Adding it requires opting for the $9500 312A equipment group, for a total of $19,500 over the standard-range XLT, but it kicks the Lightning’s range up from 230 miles per charge to 320. If it were my money, I’d stick with the XLT trim and put all of my splurge money toward the larger battery pack. Greg Fink Drew Dorian's $75,094 Lightning XLT

That’s $559 less than a bare-bones four-wheel-drive F-150 XL crew cab with spray-in bedliner and the base 290-hp 3.3-liter V-6. Add in $595 worth of spray-in bedliner and I’m looking at an electric pickup truck with a sticker price $44,259.

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Opting for this package means my Lightning Pro’s standard 2.4-kW generator gets swapped for a more powerful 9.6-kW setup. With all that available torque, it seems almost irresponsible of me not to equip my plain-jane Oxford White Lightning with the $825 Max Trailer Tow package, which includes additional cooling features to-hopefully-prevent the motors and battery pack from overheating under load. The price for all of this? $41,769-$13,000 less than the next cheapest F-150 Lightning trim, the XLT. That’s plenty for all but the most insecure individuals. The two electric motors afford the truck north of 400 horsepower and close to 800 pound-feet of torque. Though it’s limited to the smaller battery pack, the all-wheel-drive Pro still packs a plentiful 230 miles of manufacturer-targeted driving range. The 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning proves that less is sometimes more, as the entry-level Pro offers more value than its higher-end and better-equipped XLT, Lariat, and Platinum kin.