Recent content by djwildstar

This is unfortunately pretty common at Electrify America -- their chargers are often older, frequently in need of maintenance, and generally in poor condition. Individual chargers vary greatly -- one charger could be in top form, while the one next to it is mostly-broken. In my experience, the...

My overall average, over 28 months and just shy of 38,000 miles, is 2.4 mi/kWh. My "typical" drive is a 75-mile round trip commute. Much of this is on Interstates where traffic speeds can be a 10 MPH crawl one day and a 70 MPH sprint the next, and the rest is on local roads with speed limits...

If the musty smell happens after rain or a car wash, then it is probably a leak in the moonroof. Changing the cabin air filter won't really help with this. If you're still within the 3-year/36,000-mile bumper-to-bumper warrant, then a leaky moonroof is a warranty issue. You may want to see if...

As a broad generalization, the truck gets the advertised EPA range estimate at about 55 MPH, give or take a bit. If you generally drive slower than that (for example, mostly back-roads or in-town where speeds are 30-45 MPH), then you'll get better range. If you drive faster, you'll get...

The thing to remember here is that the advertised charger rate ("50kW" or "350kW") is the highest power level that the charger can deliver under ideal conditions. However, power in watts is made up of two components, voltage and current (measured in amps): volts x amps = watts. So a 50kW...

My usual road trips are up and down I-75, either Atlanta-Orlando or Atlanta-Detroit. Offhand, I think you should be in good shape. My first ever road trip in the Lightning was in May 2023, just a week after I got it, from Atlanta to Huntington WV. At the time, there were no fast chargers on...

The Lightning is built by UAW labor at Ford's Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn. Because of that, I don't expect that there would be any significant change for consumers if the batteries are also built by union labor. I'm supportive of the BlueOval SK workers' right to unionize. In...

The reason to go to an 800V architecture is to get higher charging rates. For a variety of reasons that all come down to the laws of physics, DC fast-charging currents are likely limited to somewhere around 500A for the foreseeable future. The current Lightning is a 400V architecture that is...

So far so good on mine (from back in '23). These sorts of things are best purchased through Amazon, and/or with a credit card, so that you have options for returning the thing and/or getting your money back.

I don't have any experience with the GO Rhino or American Truck brands. I used AMP PowerSteps on my '23 Lariat, and have been very happy with them.

Your problem isn't the truck, it's the dealer.

Yes -- the engineering for a NACS extension cable is difficult and unforgiving, because we're talking about something that has to safely and reliably handle currents of about 500A. One approach would be to make a "cable" that contains 15+ pounds of copper and presumably comes with its own...

I feel it's a big miss on the part of Ford and Siemens that the Charge Station Pro doesn't support power management (both from a current sensor to avoid service/panel upgrades and from the utility to lower costs). It's doubly-odd because the FCSP does support a data link connection so that it...

OP's EX90 is a fully-electric vehicle with a J1772+CCS1 charge port, so it will accept the unmodified FCSP plug. Overall, OP's strategy does make sense because he has an otherwise-unused FCSP just lying around. I personally would not recommend the course of action you're contemplating. The...

Most jurisdictions don't allow multiple chargers on one circuit (it is allowed under the newest code, but most places haven't updated to that version of the code). My city doesn't allow multiple chargers on one circuit, either. So here's what my electrician did: First, we set the FCSP's...