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Ford Authority had a different quote so it could just be bad reporting. “Imagine having a Ford where our whole lineup has hybrids and EREVs, and then we’ll have this very affordable EV platform at prices of $30 grand. ”...

You would think that Ford has a PR team that monitors such things and would have reached out to R&T to correct it.

Today Farley hosted Trump in Dearborn today and announced a new ICE truck. According to this article this truck replaces the previously announced EV truck. It sounds like Ford is abandoning EVs except for the Mach-E. ”Farley explained that the newly planned ICE truck will replace the previously...

Just checked eBay. Unfortunately I don’t have a spare $8k at the moment.

Need to update your profile.

The only thing I want from it is a button to turn it off.

I had the bad BMS originally and had a lot of issues with OTAs before it was replaced. I knew my 12V had been through hell so as I got close to 36 months I started monitoring the SOC. It would rarely get over 70%. About 3 weeks before the warranty ran out I took it to the dealer and told them to...

Back when this first came out most of us watched it. There are a lot of new people here so it’s probably worth a repost. Munro did a complete teardown and posted some interesting videos. Edit: the link was supposed to take you to a playlist but it seems to link to the battery video. There is a...

I think people will find that they will cause more problems than they solve. Any time people save on the occasional road trip will be more than lost by the additional time they will spend on maintenance and going to the gas station. They will almost certainly be less reliable since they include...

The Ram EREV is planning for a 3.6 liter V6, basically a non-turbocharged version of the standard Ram 1500 engine. That plus a battery that is almost as big as the Lightning SR pack. The Lightning is going to need something similar so they’ll probably use some form of the 2.7 or 3.5...

I’m curious what effect fog lights will have on glare free lighting. It will be interesting to see how it responds to a second light source aligned with the headlights.

That’s the Sport mode indicator.

I have never thought about the value of any vehicle I’ve ever owned until a few days before I was going to trade it in.

They don’t want to be but they can’t write it off yet. They already bought the plant and now they don’t need the batteries.

I don’t remember the code but it was listed as a checksum error. The HSM settings are a little different from the others. Every line in the as-built has a checksum, it’s the two dashes on the end that Forscan will calculate for you. In the HCM section the line 734-11-01 is a separate checksum...