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If you would just be a little patient you can find a replacement on eBay, it just takes time. I just got a fully loaded mirror with the correct paint trim pretty much mint condition for $450 shipped. It took about 3-4 months of looking a couple times a week to find it. It took 10 minutes to...

All I was pointing out is that it doesn’t make sense to claim an 80-amp charger will charge a car faster if the car is limited to 32 or 48 amps. A lot of people assume bigger is better but that's not always the case.

It's irrelevant, the car is going to cap itself and ignore all the extra amps.

You need 2 accounts not 2 phones.

If you plug an 80A charger into a car that only accepts 48A, the charger doesn't "work half as hard." It simply passes 48A through. The internal components aren't cruising; they are just performing at the car's max request. Installing an 80amp charger is overkill and not necessary If you’re...

The only new features you’ll get will be those already in the pipeline. I assume that once the EREV launches, lighting will be limited to bug fixes only. I know the Lightning and the Mach-E basically share the same architecture, but that definitely won’t stay that way forever. At some point...

Then they should can the entire lighting program along with it.

Not necessarily—the generator’s role would be to maintain, not charge. In theory, if there’s no load, it could charge the battery, but I’d guess it would take quite a while to do so and is it necessary.

If you know exactly how they work, then share it with the rest of us. Last I checked, Ford hadn’t made any specific announcements, so how can anyone be right or wrong? If I said it’s going to be diesel and not gas, I’m neither right nor wrong since no announcement has been made. It’s an...

How so?

I think people are overthinking this concept, it's basically going to be the exact same lightning except you have an onboard generator which has the sole purpose of charging the batteries. I'm making the assumption(maybe stupidly) that's it's going to be based on the same concept at the...

Why, the truck will plug in just like it does now. If you use Ram as the baseline your looking at 145 miles per "charge" without the generator.

You're never running off the engine; it's strictly a generator. Your always running off the batteries The engine-driven generator does produce horsepower but that power is converted into electricity, not sent mechanically to the drivetrain. Your entire drive train is going to be very similar...

Based on the lackluster Lightning sales, how can anyone say this is a bad idea? I know everyone here loves their truck on this board, but Mach-E sales have outpaced the Lightning by a fairly wide margin, which means the market right now for an all-electric truck isn’t looking great. I don’t...

It’s virtually impossible, as most carriers use US gateways when you’re roaming outside the country, so even if the app shows you in, say, Germany, your IP address will still be in the US. It might also use a combination of GPS, IP, and car location, and if all three don’t match, it could flag a...