Recent content by climateguy

DIY including the cost of a used charger = less than $300.

apparently the hansshow cable is not UL certified. The company claims all its components are UL certified, and that it is designed to UL standards.... A2Z says they are in the process of actually getting UL certification for their cable and they won't sell a cable until it has the certification.

Trump and his officials have repeatedly said and acted as if they do not want Canadian made auto parts or vehicles imported into the US, because of their reshoring of manufacturing effort. US made vehicles represent some 40% of the Canadian auto market. Canadian parts and vehicles are 9% of...

The body shop guy cleaned the paint near the sensors on the bumper and the sensors, then he crawled under the truck I assume to fool around with the connector to whatever sensor is there and/or clean it or see if there was some obstruction. I guess, with the other variables like exactly how the...

The alert displayed on the app had a time stamp on it that corresponded with the time the shop unplugged the sensor to remove the body part to paint it, which was the day previously. I tend to believe now that in case of disagreement between a warning displayed by the app and what the truck...

I had a body shop repair a scrape on my 2024 Flash left front. At some point during the repair, the truck sent my wife's Ford app a warning that the radar sensor used by the Pre-Collision Assist system was not functional, blah blah blah. When I went to pick up the truck, the warning was...

I've moved to Sequim. Other dealers fairly nearby are in Port Orchard, and Bremerton.

Are you saying a remote dealer can communicate with my truck that is sitting on another dealer's lot?

My 2024 Flash seemed to be operating normally when I saw a service vehicle soon notice appear on the dash. "Soon" to me meant I could keep driving so I did. I never use the full power of the truck so I did not notice any reduction of power. When I got home the app showed a "Powertrain...

I''ve never come closr to using the full power of my 2024 Flash. Maybe I'd notice if I was towing my travel trailer up a long Rocky Mountain hill. But I doubt I would notice, as I have towed my trailer up such hills when I drove from the Pacific NorthWest to Arizona and back and never come...

I tow a 17 foot Escape travel trailer, recently from Seattle to Tucson and back. It weighs between 3000 and 3500 when loaded for a trip. I never got less than 120 miles from a 95% charge. I got to the point where I thought if I charged to 100% I could get 150 miles, but I never actually...

I used to think Electrify America was unreliable. On a recent 3500 mile trip from the Pacific NorthWest to Arizona and California I mostly used Tesla chargers. I think the two failures to charge at Tesla could have been due to my not using the Tesla app correctly. The several times I've used...

I thought I was doing great when I saw 10 mi/kwh coming down Mt Lemon in Arizona. Just to see how hard these things are to photoshop, I dreamed up this:

I'd never heard this claim before, i.e. that China didn't have to steal IP for batteries, as it was just handed over to them (Starting at 11:55) [When] "...key innovations in carbon coating and process technologies were invented... [that] were patented by researchers at universities and...

Thanks. I hadn't thought about that. It seems 90% efficiency is what "they" say.