Recent content by Calvin H-C

I'm in the Toronto area of Canada and I can say that our EV insurance rates are NOT higher than ICE vehicles. There is a specific "EV" discount listed just like the "winter tire" discount. The first year we had the 2017 FFE, we also had a 2013 ICE Focus SE. We thought the ICE would continue to...

I was just thinking that after I posted. Fortunately, my wife is off work this week, so I could take a pic (don't tell her I did without washing the dirt off first!).

Wow! That Kia did about the same damage to a Lightning than a General Grabber tire blowout did to my wife's Lightning two years ago... I believe the font is called Sarcastica. 😜 At least, that is my vote for its name if someone were to create it. In the above damage from a tire blowout, the...

Don't know if this is related, but our Lightning had a driver's window issue after it was into a dealership for another issue. The problem was that auto-close didn't work - you had to keep pulling up on the button to close the window. However, if you didn't let go at just the right moment, it...

It is amazing how much can be captured through regeneration. So much so, there is currently testing underway in Australia for what they are calling the "gravity train" that is hauled by a battery locomotive they are hoping will NEVER need to be plugged in to charge. The idea is that it is...

My FFE came with a set of Continental winter tires on steel rims, but two years ago when they were due for replacement at the same time we needed to get winters for the Lightning, we ended up getting Motomaster Winter Edge tires for both vehicles from Canadian Tire (a retail chain here often...

As others have mentioned, it is configurable. I don't recall if it uses a selection list to choose from, or if you can enter the range warning level to your choice. My wife has her Lightning set to 80 km (50 miles) though we rarely get that low except occasionally on a road trip. I find that...

I'm not surprised. When I said 5 kW, I was thinking of the FFE's heater, so double the power needed for the Lightning is understandable. Still, with an SR battery of 98 kWh, that's almost triple the capacity of the FFE's 34 kWh battery, so the percentage affect is greater on the FFE.

All of those are negligible, at about 20-50 watts each, compared to something like 5 kW for the resistive heater for the cabin. Using those over heating the whole cabin will provide a little more range on the current charge if you really need it to get to your destination and avoid a charging...

The automatic lane changing is great. Though, if it detects the lane to your left is moving faster and there's an opening, it will pop up a message reminding you that it can change lanes for you by simply turning on the turn signal. 🤣

When we were getting winter tires and rims for the Lightning, the shop was going to order the TPMS sensors from a dealership, but I figured we could get them using points. A colleague told me that Ford Performance had a kit with the four sensors and the training unit for a price that was a...

Good point. I wasn't aware the points were different. Tell me about it. 🙄

Wow - are they getting stingy. When we bought the Lightning in 2023, we got 40,000 points. Even then, I thought that was stingy given that a month or two later, I had the evaporator on my FFE's A/C replaced for about $4k and got nearly that many points. On the plus side, when getting servicing...

True. Though not bought at the same time, here's what we experienced... When we got our 2017 Focus Electric in November 2017, we had an ICE 2013 Focus SE and based on continuing to drive the ICE Focus about 25,000 km per year and expecting to drive the FFE only 16,000, the insurance premium...

Very true. Before the Ultra Low Overnight rate existed, I considered this idea. With the Time of Use plan, it would have saved us about $15 per month, so the payback time from the investment would be far too long. However, with the greater spread between peak price and ultra low price, the...