Recent content by swajames

You left out an important answer that was between the two you posted. [C&D] For me, it's hard to escape the fact that COVID's effect on car sales was record profitability, as limited numbers of silicon chips were diverted to the most expensive vehicles, which sold remarkably well, perhaps...

Ford's shitty dealers killed the Lightning, not the actually excellent product that said shitty dealers did their utmost not to sell. And unless Ford fixes the issue of its shitty dealers and their unwillingness to sell its EVs, it doesn't matter much how good those future EVs are going to be.

has anyone else had this update fail multiple times? It's telling me the reason for the failure is that the battery is low. Per car scanner, my 12v battery was at 86% (and the HVB at 80%) when it failed twice this morning - one scheduled, one manually requested). The two other updates this week...

Ford won't let you buy it out for less than the residual, and you're going to have to make all remaining lease payments to get out before lease maturity anyway. You might as well hang on until closer to September and see how the market looks at that time. Ford has been leveraging inflated...

The only wireless CarPlay issue we have is what I presume are external interference-driven disconnects when driving past certain spots, and we get them at these places in all our cars. With that said, my own experience is that there's no point trying to troubleshoot CarPlay. Just delete the...

I don't expect our trucks will be obsolete by then, but aftermarket support is key. Chances are there will be an aftermarket ecosystem of vendors who can fix batteries, recondition motors, swap out infotainment etc. Another issue, and again where the aftermarket may well step up, is the app and...

Like others I never normally buy these but did with the Lightning. My dealer was willing to get close enough to the online dealer prices to make it worthwhile. Note I'm in CA so I would have had to go through some hoops to actually get those out-of-state online prices, but the dealer got quite...

On my 2022 Platinum the window sticker confirmed BlueCruise was included as standard but it made no mention of time limit or any trial period. I did get the "free" one year extension so mine is active through August 2026. I don't know it's reasonable to expect updates for free for life but I...

To your first bolded point, what it really means is that too many Americans were susceptible to lobbyist-driven FUD and misinformation, and to the second there are few greater subsidies than those offered to the fossil fuel industries. So if there really is an opportunity to get government out...

You did this yourself. You have activated MyKey, and it's doing exactly what you told it to.

almost always charge to 80%, and rarely let the SoC go below 40%. Don't often charge to 100% but do on occasion. The battery still shows 100% state of health, obviously we've yet to really determine how accurate that is.

Again, it does not appear that this lawsuit actually exists. It DOES, however, appear that you are susceptible to made-up AI-generated bullshit.

Not only is that almost certainly an AI-generated article, none of the supporting links to a supposed Reuters news story work, and a manual search of the Reuters news results in no matching stories.

Evidence?

These are people that get their talking points and world view from Facebook groups. Ford, thankfully, does not. BEVs can't do what ICE cars can do when it comes to range or fueling, yet the Model Y is one of the best selling vehicles period. Maybe the difference is that Tesla isn't hampered by...