Recent content by Brons2

this is the issue with all PHEV and EREV. there's never enough EV only range.

This is some wild spin. Unless the next gen EREV Lightning has some serious EV only range, I will be getting a Chevy or a Cybertruck when my Lightning lease expires.

I have the Ford bed mat, got it with points. I'd probably still use it even with a spray in as it has a nice texture that won't scratch up your knees if you're wearing shorts. I had Line-X in one of my other trucks and it would scrape up your legs if you weren't careful.

PaaK worked fine when I had my S21 FE on our Mach-E, it has never worked once since I got my Pixel 8 Pro in July of 24. I just carry the keys with me. My Lightning XLT doesn't have the feature.

Nobody mentioned this but, I assume you used an AGM battery to replace the other one? Ford EVs are calibrated for the slightly higher voltage of AGM batteries, a flooded lead acid battery will cause issues.

True. I just got back from a 17 day vacation in Brazil and we rode tons of Ubers, only a couple of them used Carplay or Android Auto despite pretty much every car being compatible. You don't want to have your phone out just running around random parts of Sao Paulo and Rio because there have...

Fair enough. I'll still never use Ford Nav and it's NBD to me if it's good, bad or indifferent. There's so many other great tools that are so much better.

I received a software update that the release notes said you could designate that you had a Tesla adapter, but you had to do it every new trip. No thanks. I've never used the Ford navigation to go anywhere, never planned to in the first place when I got the truck, I'm Google all the way.

ABRP is a great pre-planning tool, but when it comes down to the actual trip I use Google Maps on Android Auto and I set the next desired charger as the destination usually. Then I will still run ABRP on my phone while Google Maps is runing on the truck screen, it seems to support that.

I always charge the Lightning and the Mach-E to 100% once a month. I usually try to do it on the 1st of the month. I'm doing it today with my truck as noted earlier in the thread.

Counterpoint: If I've got $600 worth of groceries in my fridge, it only takes a couple of outages to make what the OP has done, make sense.

Interesting, thanks.

Is which part confirmed? I can't speak to Ford's ultimate motives. However, I work in Cybersecurity, of course it's a security risk. Steal your car and now the bad guys have free access to your house. How many people don't lock the door between their garage and their house? You're much...

Physically larger batteries are one thing, as seen in the Silverado. But it's ok to admit that we all want better energy density in our batteries, and faster charging. These are things that are possible, and being worked on all over the world. And when produced at industrial scale, maybe even...

These organizations are taking NEVI money. In Tesla's case, a lot of it. I'm perfectly fine with that, but, characterizing it as "doing laps around NEVI" is a misnomer.