Recent content by Cvh8601

@Ford Motor Company I actually didnt have a pre-concieved idea of how this poll would turn out, but given its one-sided result, I’d urge you to take it to management if possible. I was road tripping today and actually chatted with two other lightning owners at superchargers about the...

This is the part that doesn’t make sense. EREV, from Ford or Scout or anyone, seems like a low-volume model for people who do serious towing and are willing to put up with the downsides of ICE to do it. Ford claims they couldn’t produce lightning cheaply enough. How can they possibly add...

@Ford Motor Company I was quite disappointed to not have my 500A charging this week on a roadtrip. What gives on only giving this update to part of the fleet? The team should have plenty of free time with no more lightnings coming…

At the size of the lightning battery, we’d probably be better served by some efficiency gains than more battery. Another 0.5mi/kWh (~+25%) would add 80 mi epa range, more or less. Tesla managed some monster efficiency gains between generations, if Ford could learn how that was done that would...

No one would disagree that ford nav leaves something to be desired. Doesn’t change the fact that an EREV could greatly benefit from route planner integration to address many of the issues raised in this thread.

it’ll be interesting to see how it turns out. To some extent the media has always had a disease of ‘ev sales are falling’ for years even though sales have been always increasing, except for the past few months. I wonder if GM will follow suit or stay the course.

Good point, that seems feasible if they are going with a somewhat small generator. If they end up having to go the reported ram route and have their fleet v6, seems like the packaging would be a challenge down there. plus then the frunk might have to hold a small spare tire

Keep in mind that an EREV F-150 will have access to the route planner (read: elevation, weather data, etc). it should be trivial for the future truck to plan to run the generator at a sufficient clip to keep sufficient battery through whatever the route plan is. Or, telling you if your route...

Seems like ford is betting on this result going a certain direction. Let the people speak!

I think you just described the ‘dead internet’ theory. Just ai talking to ai about stuff ai made up.

Looks like AI slop to me. No actual technical details at all in the article? Every citation in the article is to a broken link? No matching info available via google search (which also began with its own AI misinformation option!)? This future of (mis)information fabricated by GPTs is so...

I’ll call out Pepco in MD for a ridiculous TOU plan: no TOU: $0.25/kWh TOU off-peak: $0.23/kWh TOU peak: $0.335/kWh Clearly a predatory money grab for those who buy EV’s but don’t look hard at the TOU rates.

My journey included a hard pivot from low cars to the lightning 1994 Camaro 3.4L 1994 Firebird 3.4L 1998 Firebird 3.8L 2001 Camaro SS (pinnacle of my non-electric cars) —-Started adding kids—- 2016 Kia Optima 2.0T (the turbo lag!!!) —-needed space for 3 car seats—- 2023 Lightning Lariat Also...

My best suggestion would be to up your game on avoidance while youre adding impact resistance. Get a copy of Forscan and a OBD cable and enable the matrix high beams (ford calls it 'glare free'), assuming thats still standard equipment for 2025. The peripheral high beams that this provides...

My total rate in MD has gone from $0.17/kWh to $0.25/kWh (~+50%!!!) over my 14 months of ownership. I’ll have to do some math to check but I would be surprised if it wasn’t cheaper to run gasoline now for at least an equivalent f-150. Eco boost is still definitely the inferior powertrain, but...