WATCH: Auto guru tests out electric truck’s ‘abysmally bad’ towing ability

As he tried to test the Lightning truck by driving it for 32 miles with an empty aluminum trailer in tow before loading up the trailer, driving back the same 32 miles, unloading the trailer, and repeating the process a second time, Hoover realized the truck’s charge was losing driving range at a rapid pace.

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“Are you kidding me? That’s almost 90 miles of range in 30 miles. Are you serious?” Hoover said on his first trip back. “That’s nuts! What a joke.”

Hoover decided not to attempt his second trip.

“That was abysmally bad, and if the future is electric, there has to be some kind of solution for this,” Hoover said.

“I have no idea why EVs tow so bad,” he said. “My guess would be it doesn’t have a normal transmission where there’s gears and the car’s in a lower rev range but still pulling … versus an EV which is a dry motor working harder and harder and harder, and when you’re towing something with bad aerodynamics, it makes such a huge difference.”

Hoover did praise the Lightning truck’s comfortable ride and silent driving experience despite its low driving range while towing.

“That is ridiculously stupid,” Hoover said, summarizing his towing experience. “This truck can’t do normal truck things. You’d be stopping every hour to recharge, which would take about 45 minutes a pop, and that is absolutely not practical.”

Hoover isn’t alone in his assessment. YouTuber Fast Lane Truck also tested the Lightning’s towing range capacity and found that the electric truck needed to charge around 85 miles sooner than initial estimates indicated.

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Autotrader recently found that towing large loads reduces an electric truck’s range by as much as one-third or one-half.