Recent content by Seageo

CCS chargers are liquid cooled and by standard rated to 500A.

They should just be downsizing the pack and still have an adequate cooling system. 120kw for a pack that size is very very low power. 150kw stations are still 800v stations typically. It's fairly rare to find a 400v station in the U.S. the 150kw stations EA has are just limited in total...

Both numbers are impressively low peak values for the size of battery that they are. What new car has a lower peak than the SR? The Bz4x at 100kw? The ER really should be charging at 200kw above 50% SOC. Big miss by Ford. The charging curve for the MME is already wonky. It really makes me...

Educated guess that im curious to see how it plays out here: I suspect the Lightning will have better city range than the R1T, but the R1T will have significantly better highway range than the lightning. Particularly with conserve mode on. The mass and larger tires are probably quite a...

Agreed. I have a feeling the F150 will do better than the R1T in the city cycle due to weight, but will do worse than the R1T at highway speeds with the R1T in conserve mode primarily due to aero dynamics. It'll be interesting to see how they test out going 70.

Last I read the bill, this was not specified and it's up to the department to interpret the law (if it were to pass). There's a whole range of possibilities in how to interpret it, since the definition if MSRP is vague. It also impacts State rebates. For example, WA has a proposed rebate with...

my dealer didn't even get an allocation apparently...

Manufacturers have been known to leave some room in the GVWR, and maintain the payload rating as the increase some weight. That's about the only thing thst makes sense to me with the "up to" statement.

I'd guess that's with the max tow package.

Where are you getting easily 300mph at 70 mph? The difference in drag force between, which is consumes most of the energy at speed, would result in about 15% more range. So it would have to have a range of about 340 or more miles at 70 mph.

Got the call from my dealer that I'll be in their first wave in January. Should be exciting!

Except the lightning battery is significantly bigger. The charging rate relative to the battery size would probably be the worst of any significant EV produced since 2020 that I can recall. Are we sure Ford isn't just quoting charging times at 150kW chargers because that's the minimum DC...

That'd be a better than I am expecting too. Doesn't seem to add up given how much bigger the F150 is than the Rivian. It'll be interesting to see how the EPA ratings come out. That'd be impressive if they are able to hit 300+ miles with a 131 kWh battery given the size of the F150.

The stock shares are unrelated to following through with an order at this point. That was a nice touch by Rivian though!

Lol, not really the same. Even on Rivian dedicated forums they aren't going for a large dollar value.