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SpaceEVDriver reacted to Andrewbens's post in the thread Have 2025 20" wheels/tires with 100 miles, looking to swap for 18" wheels/tires (Sacramento or Santa Rosa CA) with
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it’s because of rolling resistance the 18” tires have more meat and the 20” have less meat which means less resistance. You can research... -
SpaceEVDriver replied to the thread Rivian Adventure Network (RAN) Now Open to Non-Rivian EVs.Just charged at my first RAN charging station. This one in Barstow, CA. I've been skeptical of RAN. I was wrong. This is the first...
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SpaceEVDriver replied to the thread Air bags for towing/ camper on the lightning ?.I am agreeing, yes.
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SpaceEVDriver reacted to K6CCC's post in the thread Air bags for towing/ camper on the lightning ? with Like.
I assume you are agreeing with me that a lift has almost no effect. I did not calculate the numbers, but pretty darn small...
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SpaceEVDriver replied to the thread Air bags for towing/ camper on the lightning ?.Yeah. I used to be under this mistaken assumption too. Assuming there’s a 2-inch lift in the rear relative to the front. The weight...
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SpaceEVDriver replied to the thread Air bags for towing/ camper on the lightning ?.https://www.fordservicecontent.com/ford_content/catalog/motorcraft/2024_MY_Camper_Loading.pdf
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SpaceEVDriver reacted to Timeless Epoch's post in the thread Air bags for towing/ camper on the lightning ? with Like.
Air bags don't make up for a properly setup WD hitch. You are still risking overloading your rear axle, overloading your hitch, and...
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SpaceEVDriver replied to the thread Air bags for towing/ camper on the lightning ?.Ford explicitly recommends against a slide-in camper on the Lightning.
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SpaceEVDriver reacted to jobofly79's post in the thread Air bags for towing/ camper on the lightning ? with Like.
I tow a 7000lb travel trailer and see no need for airbags. I set up my weight distribution hitch and my truck sits level when towing.
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SpaceEVDriver reacted to jeep2liberty's post in the thread Caravan Road Trip: Mach-E & Lightning from Northern AZ to LA with Like.
Does the Lightning have a bed / tonneau cover? (Always an interesting topic if they help efficiency or not).
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SpaceEVDriver replied to the thread Caravan Road Trip: Mach-E & Lightning from Northern AZ to LA.It does, but the physics of tonneau covers is that they have negligible impact on efficiency. Without a cover, the bed has a static...
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SpaceEVDriver replied to the thread Caravan Road Trip: Mach-E & Lightning from Northern AZ to LA.She mostly kept the same speed, and probably 3 bars distance on the adaptive cruise control. However, whenever I sped up to pass, she...
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SpaceEVDriver reacted to Scorpio3d's post in the thread Caravan Road Trip: Mach-E & Lightning from Northern AZ to LA with Like.
I just meant I wonder what the efficiency difference for the lightning (actually both vehicles )would be if it was following? I know you...
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SpaceEVDriver replied to the thread Caravan Road Trip: Mach-E & Lightning from Northern AZ to LA.My partner doesn’t set the cruise control to the closest-following setting, so drafting was pretty unimportant.
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SpaceEVDriver replied to the thread Caravan Road Trip: Mach-E & Lightning from Northern AZ to LA.I’ve driven the Mustang the same route (with different stops because the Yucca stop is new). In general, I get between 3.5 and 3.9...
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SpaceEVDriver reacted to Scorpio3d's post in the thread Caravan Road Trip: Mach-E & Lightning from Northern AZ to LA with Like.
Love that grabber blue!
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SpaceEVDriver reacted to Scorpio3d's post in the thread Caravan Road Trip: Mach-E & Lightning from Northern AZ to LA with Like.
I know it would not be exactly be the same , but I wonder how much of a difference if the Mach-e was in front??
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SpaceEVDriver reacted to Quantum's post in the thread Caravan Road Trip: Mach-E & Lightning from Northern AZ to LA with Like.
That is quite the elevation change - downhill indeed!
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SpaceEVDriver reacted to pirate4x4lance's post in the thread Lightning as an actual truck from an ex Raptor owner with Like.
So I've only had this truck for a couple of weeks now, and have about 1,700 miles on it. I traded in a 2023 Raptor (37 package) and I...
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SpaceEVDriver replied to the thread Lightning as an actual truck from an ex Raptor owner.As a 2x ex Tacoma owner, I much prefer the Lightning. It's not going to climb the same trails, but it's much more comfortable getting...
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SpaceEVDriver reacted to hturnerfamily's post in the thread Lightning as an actual truck from an ex Raptor owner with Like.
I helped my son and daughter-in-law out the other week by test driving an SUV they saw close to me... as I drove it out the dealership...
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SpaceEVDriver reacted to RocketGhost's post in the thread Ford Universal EV Platform Announced: Innovation Meets Efficiency in New EV Platform, Assembly Process and Midsize Truck with Like.
I've seen a lot of vehicle patents (as part of my job as a patent examiner) and sometimes the sketches do resemble an actual design, or...
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SpaceEVDriver reacted to 21st Century Truck's post in the thread Every receptacle is a potential charging station... with Like.
Electricity is electricity. When in a desert, any glass of water is a good thing. ...and electricity is pretty much everywhere, albeit...
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Bring it to the dealer, that should have not left the lot without proper amount in bottle, if they find an issue it can get fixed on the...
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SpaceEVDriver reacted to 21st Century Truck's post in the thread Playing on a wet, sandy, rocky slope — some data with Like.
No hard data numbers to add to the graphs by the OP, but two observations on a completion of a 9,300+ mile cross country road trip...
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SpaceEVDriver reacted to FloridaMan655321's post in the thread Caravan Road Trip: Mach-E & Lightning from Northern AZ to LA with Like.
Best color for the Mustang. Was there a big difference when charging both as far as time and % goes? I know there is some, but just...
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SpaceEVDriver replied to the thread Caravan Road Trip: Mach-E & Lightning from Northern AZ to LA.Oh, thanks for the reminder. Charging speeds were nearly identical, which is what I expect and have experienced in separate road...
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SpaceEVDriver replied to the thread Hansshow NACS to CCS1 Extension Cable.No, thanks. With 50k miles of road tripping in our EVs, I’ve only rarely even wondered if an extension would have made the charging...
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SpaceEVDriver replied to the thread Caravan Road Trip: Mach-E & Lightning from Northern AZ to LA.We did have an elevation change. And also an oncoming crosswind. I haven’t bothered to do the math to estimate which had a bigger...
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SpaceEVDriver posted the thread Caravan Road Trip: Mach-E & Lightning from Northern AZ to LA in Trip Reports / Journals / Logs.For reasons, we had to drive both the Mustang and the Lightning from northern AZ to Los Angeles the other day. The Mustang is a 2022...
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SpaceEVDriver reacted to Shmoe's post in the thread In the event of a battery fire, what is the fastest, easiest way to drag the truck out of the garage? with Like.
You're conflating safety, stupidity, and self-reliance. It doesn't make anyone less of a person to accept a check from insurance and be...
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SpaceEVDriver reacted to Shmoe's post in the thread In the event of a battery fire, what is the fastest, easiest way to drag the truck out of the garage? with Like.
Because anyone with any sense stops after the first paragraph. :)
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SpaceEVDriver reacted to Shmoe's post in the thread In the event of a battery fire, what is the fastest, easiest way to drag the truck out of the garage? with Like.
Meanwhile, the rest of us would cut our losses at actually escaping the burning structure intact with our lives and not dwell as much on...
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SpaceEVDriver reacted to Henry Ford's post in the thread In the event of a battery fire, what is the fastest, easiest way to drag the truck out of the garage? with Like.
You are proposing an easy way to allow your truck to run over your grandkids. You should leave "safety" to professionals.
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SpaceEVDriver reacted to chl's post in the thread In the event of a battery fire, what is the fastest, easiest way to drag the truck out of the garage? with Like.
No, not really a myth - the stats consider that, not to would be kinda dumb, eh? One analysis of U.S. government data estimates that...
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SpaceEVDriver replied to the thread 12V battery replacement.Glad the point made it somewhere. A Li battery on an AGM BMS could easily be left in the 0% to 25% range. It is also likely never to...
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As a data point...2022 Platinum. I've run 20" Lariat wheels and stock Hankook A/T tires about 15,000 miles, mostly in colder months...
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Pretty flat discharge curve. I see your point now.
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SpaceEVDriver replied to the thread Buying a Used Lightning with High Mileage - Need Some Input.Personally, I wouldn’t worry about high mileage on a BEV. As long as the mechanicals are working I have no concerns about battery life.
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SpaceEVDriver reacted to Tfarrell73's post in the thread Buying a Used Lightning with High Mileage - Need Some Input with Like.
I'd be more worried about the other components besides the HVB. The screen or cooling components seem more likely to be a problem...
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SpaceEVDriver replied to the thread 12V battery replacement.The top-end and bottom-end voltages are similar. But the voltage of a Lithium battery at 25% looks the same as the voltage of a Pb-A...
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SpaceEVDriver replied to the thread 12V battery replacement.Yeah, that’s my point. There seems to be something going on in the Ohmmu BMS that’s converting the lithium battery voltage / SOC to...
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SpaceEVDriver replied to the thread 12V battery replacement.Hmmm. Maybe they’ve improved over the past few years. Dunno. I do know that I wouldn’t do a direct replacement of an AGM with a Lithium...
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SpaceEVDriver replied to the thread 12V battery replacement.I am truly happy for you that it hasn't caused any problems for you. I'll still keep using the AGM until there's a better solution...
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SpaceEVDriver replied to the thread 12V battery replacement.No hard mount on that circuit board!? It would jar loose in the first week of owning it with my road and the use I put my truck through...
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Basically run of the mill cells and a circuit board held in place with spray foam.
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SpaceEVDriver replied to the thread Ford’s next big EV money move: Turning batteries into business.BatteryEVO buys discards from Jeep, gets rid of the bad cells, and builds whole home battery arrays. They sell them for significantly...
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SpaceEVDriver reacted to MountainAlive's post in the thread Ford’s next big EV money move: Turning batteries into business with Like.
This makes financial sense to me. Maybe we can buy some extra batteries for the bed of our trucks :)...
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Some of it is probably for sensors that report to the app and switches that allows the app to turn stuff on and off. I am not sure...
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SpaceEVDriver replied to the thread Every receptacle is a potential charging station....LOL. To each their own. Nearly everything you mentioned are things I wouldn’t want within 1000 meters of my truck.
