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The competitive titans of full-size BEV trucks are in full swing, and two very popular match-ups are the 2024 Ford F-150 Lightning vs 2024 Tesla Cybertruck. This is a match-up for the ages for multiple reasons and represents a new era of what we can expect from full-size pick-ups. However, this also introduces some unique new challenges for the F-150 Lightning to face, given that it's no longer sitting at the top of the food chain outside of the gas-powered segment, and it's facing off in a space that has been dominated by Tesla for the last few years: battery electric vehicles. But at the same time, Tesla is stepping outside the boundaries of the BEV crossover sedan space to face off against Ford in a space that the F-150 has mostly dominated in the full-size truck segment. So it's a clash of epic proportions.
The 2024 Cybertruck is Tesla's first BEV truck, and it introduces some high-end features for those looking for a BEV pickup. It is available in three different motor configurations, including single motor, dual motor, and tri-motor setup in rear-wheel or all-wheel drive. The Cybertruck is designed to tow thousands of pounds and haul just over a ton of cargo in the rear bed. The four-door, five-seater Cybetruck is also available in three different trims, which start with the base rear-wheel drive trim, the middle all-wheel drive trim, gives you more power and performance, and finally, there is the Cyberbeast trim that sits at the top of the offerings with the tri-motor setup.
For the 2024 Ford F-150 Lightning, the truck has seen a number of new features and updates for 2024, including the all new Lightning Flash trim, which comes with a high-end infotainment suite, a B&O Bang & Olufsen surround sound system, wireless charging, and intelligent access with push-button start and SecuriCode access. The 2024 model year also includes the updated version of BlueCruise 1.2 for semi-autonomous driving, which is available across the two different drivetrain configurations consisting of a rear-wheel drive and all-wheel drive format that consists of a single or dual motor setup. The Lightning Flash joins five other trims, which includes the all new high-end Platinum Black Limited Edition, which is accompanied by the Lightning PRO, the Lightning XLT, the Lightning LARIAT, and the Lightning Platinum.
There are some worthwhile features available for both the 2024 F-150 Lightning and the 2024 Cybertruck, with both trucks offering a lot of amazing towing, trailering, and hauling capabilities within their respective feature set. Both trucks have a great number of tech opportunities that increase their overall utility capabilities, such as the deep infotainment suites available that help not only with things like navigation and vehicle health tracking, but also with towing and trailering. Both the Cybertruck and F-150 Lightning feature hands-free driving systems with the Tesla Autopilot and Ford BlueCruise, which also includes hands-free trailering support. While that tech is cool on both trucks, there is one feature that sets itself apart from the rest that's available on the F-150 Lightning but not the Cybertruck: onboard scales.
The benefit of Ford being able to upgrade and update the F-150 over multiple generations has given Ford an advantage over Tesla in multiple areas of refinement, and the onboard scales are a prime example of that. This feature was originally introduced with the 2021 gas-powered model year of the F-150, and it proved to be quite a popular feature during its initial limited deployment with the popular full-size pickup truck. Ford began including it in more trims with newer model year outings, and it's also included as an available feature for the F-150 Lightning as well. This is not something available on the Cybertruck, however.
With onboard scales, you can automatically get a read-out on what the total cargo weight is within the bed box using a visualization of the onboard weight from the infotainment display. You have a colorized meter indicating safe carrying capacity, along with a red line indicating when the payload capacity has been exceeded. This is an extremely easy and useful feature for those who do a lot of payload hauls in their vehicle, especially if someone is looking for a BEV pickup truck that takes any of the guesswork out of the total weight being carried in the rear bed.
Full-size pickup trucks are highly regarded for their storage capacity, either in their rear bed or their ability to tow cargo trailers. The highlight of BEV pickup trucks is that they offer additional carrying capacity in the form of a rear cargo bed and a front trunk, known as a frunk for electric vehicles. The cargo bed and frunk are excellent ways to store cargo in two different external areas of the truck. The Cybertruck has a slightly longer bed at 6 ft, whereas the F-150 Lightning’s bed is 5'6 ft, but the F-150 Lightning manages to beat the Cybertruck in the frunk space.
If you were carrying items that you didn't want bouncing around in the back of the cargo bed, or maybe you have family members sitting in the rear seats so that space is occupied, then the next best place to store sensitive, damageable, or fragile items would be the frunk. While the tonneau cover is a great way to protect items in the cargo bed of both the F-150 Lightning and the Cybertruck, it still doesn't quite solve the problem of things sliding around, such as groceries – especially eggs – and that can still prove to be a problem. A frunk is a good way to keep sensitive items safe, and in that regard, the Cybertruck comes up kind of short with only 7.1 cu.ft. of cargo volume for its frunk.
The F-150 Lightning, however, offers almost double the amount of space as the Cybetruck with its frunk. You have a total amount of 14.1 cu.ft. of cargo volume to use with the F-150 Lightning, which gives you a lot more room to store small items and larger items. This is great if you had a project you wanted to keep safe from the elements or something you didn't want to move around in the rear cargo bed; the F-150 Lightning's frunk gives you width, depth, and height to store more or larger items in the frunk than what's available in the Cybertruck. It may not seem like a big thing, but if you're regularly moving around items you don't want falling off the seat or sliding around in the bed box, such as computer equipment, binders, folders, or fragile items, a spacious frunk becomes an essential storage utility.
Power, performance, utility, and technology are all highly regarded items that make a pickup truck well worth it. But one thing that sometimes (or often) gets overlooked is passenger comfort. While both the 2024 F-150 Lightning and 2024 Cybertruck offer various interior amenities, including available leather seats and expansive moonroofs, when it comes to interior moving space for passengers, the F-150 Lightning gets a leg up in the passenger room across both rows. So, while you can seat up to five passengers in the F-150 Lightning and the Cybetruck, you can move around just a little more in the F-150 Lightning regarding leg space, hip room, and head space.
The Cybertruck has slightly higher head space in the front row with 41.6 inches of headroom compared to the F-150 Lightning's 40.8 inches of front headroom, but the F-150 Lightning takes advantage of its rectangular cab design to offer more headroom in the rear at 40.4-inches, compared to the Cybertruck's 39-inches of head-room for the rear seat. The slanted rear cab design for the Cybertruck proves to be more form over function in that regard. The Cybertruck also comes up short in leg room both in the front and rear, with 41 inches of legroom up front and 40.9 inches of legroom in the back. The F-150 Lightning, however, offers up to 43.9 inches of legroom up front and 43.6 inches of max legroom in the rear.
Things clearly stay in the favor of the F-150 Lightning even when it comes to hip room and shoulder room, as the Cybertruck offers up to 57.2 inches of hip room up front while the F-150 Lightning offers up to 62.5 inches of hip room up front. The shoulder room is no different, as the Cybertruck tops out at 63 inches of shoulder room up front and 62 inches of shoulder room in the rear. The F-150 Lightning offers up to 66.7 inches of shoulder room up front and 66 inches of shoulder room in the rear.
The importance of this difference is that it means the F-150 Lightning offers more passenger volume over the Cybertruck when it comes to body space, which is extremely important if you're tall, or if you have kids who move around a lot, or if you commute with multiple co-workers from one destination to the next. The extra leg, shoulder, and hip room gives you extra space to sit comfortably both up front and especially in the rear seats, which can make a huge difference in comfort levels, especially for lengthy road trips.
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