Recent content by ctuan13

I've crossed the country from PA to WA two summers in a row (soon to be three) towing my teardrop camper and staying at camogrounds along the way. In 2024, given the route I took out there and back, there were areas with so few DC fast chargers that I had to stop at a campground to stay every...

I'm no inverter or vehicle sys expert, but I just gotta comment, cause did you say "bigger Lightning battery project"?? 😱 Music to my ears and godspeed. The Lightning is definitely the ideal platform for prototyping an upgraded pack given just how easy it is to remove and install the entire...

I agree, it's wild to me that a full size pickup would ever come without a spare. This ain't a sports car. My 22 Lariat ER of course came with the spare and the spare tire crank lock, but it was an equivalent size spare not an identical spare. Because of the tire sidewall being larger and the...

Every day, I'm more glad I bought my Lightning back in 2022. I plan to keep it long term and not only is it a great truck, it's platform on the F150's full ladder frame and bolt up, battery pack, means future, even out of warranty battery replacements will be way more straightforward. It's by...

That's what I would do, I'd buy a spare, especially since last I checked, you can still get them on the secondary market for pretty cheap. But then again, I'm the kinda guy who likes fixing my own stuff and servicing and replacing what I need, myself. While technically you might be covered...

I don't disagree, which is why with complex physical products I have to trust my life to, like vehicles, I won't buy Chinese, but when it comes to tech (computers, phones, smart devices, etc), I've grown less dogmatic. My reasoning? I'm first and foremost concerned with the blatant...

Same, well I don't have the clicking, so much as I have minor but noticeable slop in the drivetrain when transitioning to regen or accelerating from a stop. I might also just tackle it myself, or if needed I could even replace the half shafts if the washers don't fix it.

For NCM/NMC batteries, top end balancing is needed far less frequently than with LiFePO4 batteries. This is for two reasons, (well sorta one , but it has two consequences). 1. NMC batteries have a wider, more varied voltage curve (I.e. at any given point along the SOC curve, the voltage is...

Could be like @KahnDawg said and is just your friction brakes, or it could be the "ting" issue that the "anti-ting washer" TSB was issued for. Basically, wear occurs in the splines where the half shaft interfaces with the output shafts of the motor. As a result, there is a small amount of slop...

As I have family with direct insight into China's manufacturing, I have SERIOUS concerns about Chinese EVs, but not for political reasons, but for safety reasons. Those who have no concept or understanding for Chinese culture, can't fully grasp the difference in attitude given to the concept of...

I would've kept the 12V connected as well, but only because the BMS and other systems need wakeup power to keep things balanced, but NMC (Nickel Manganese Cobalt) lithium batteries as well as many other lithium chemistries, are not damaged by simply dropping below freezing. They can even be...

Obviously any sort of hybrid system is increased complexity and increased points of potential failure, but this is still lightyears ahead of either a plug-in hybrid or mild hybrid. The very fact that the engine has zero direct connection to the rest of the drivetrain is it's greatest strength...

My mom's EV6 has this feature and it's the same model year as my Lightning (2022), but this feature never made it to the Lightning.

I'll be the first to accept being proven wrong, but as it stands this whole operation and how they've approached it has struck me as very suspicious. Right down to the way they respond to the tech spec criticisms with "You just wanna see us fail, bro." instead of actual technical reputations...

Ooh these look really nice! I might consider them for my 22. The one thing that's kept me from biting the bullet and getting powered running boards has been the loss of the rear zone light on the factory fixed boards. Is there any way to implement that functionality on these?