How are we holding up?

[FloridaMan655321]

I appreciate that you understand that some people's driving conditions, infrastructure, and tolerance for adding over an hour to a six hour trip are different than yours. Planning is fine. Planning to miss events because you have to make out-of-the-way charging stops at unreliable stations is not okay. That was my life. I once spent 3 hours with my 75 year old mother-in-law trying to charge at the only two stations on I-10 between my daughter's house and home. Finally sold the truck when it said I had 10% charge 10 miles from home, then died 3 miles from home. (Extended Range)

That said, the infrastructure is a little better than it was. I miss the truck in town. Open roads in Texas at 75 are not good for range. YMMV!

Yeah, I can see that will suck. I'm actually taking a trip soon to the upper midwest and I can see it will be challenging. Thankfully I won't be traveling too far off the beaten track. If I lived up where I'm going it would kind of suck and be limited. I'm actually surprised how well the Southeast in general is. I hear Mississippi sucks, but the Carolinas are quite pleasant.

I really think the Walmart EV network will help quite a bit over the next few years for some of these more rural areas.

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[djwildstar]

Did it blast you on the side of the head? I'm not saying if you have video I will laugh....but I probably will

That might be funny (and probably dangerous, if it triggered while I was driving).

Nothing like that; just a trouble code in a Ford app message and an icon on the dashboard. It's a bit frustrating, because my Ford dealer has generally been unable to find or fix the problem: they've checked and replaced the wiring harness, updated the BCM (which gave me walk-away lock before the OTA), and run various tests, but it throws the code about once a month or so.

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

Two years (as of 12 April), 32,000 miles.
Minor issue of the shifter not enjoying the heat so I replaced it with a dial shifter.

100% State of Health.

Somewhere around 20,000-25,000 miles of road trips in the Lightning. Probably around 100 DCFC sessions (I haven’t bothered to separate the hundreds of DCFC sessions between the Mustang Mach-E and the Lightning). Every month or so I drive a 1200 mile round trip between northern Arizona an Pasadena, CA. We do 3000+ mile trips in the Lightning once or twice a year.

Happy with the truck.

 

[3rdgenfan]

Quick stats for my '23 XLT:
Picked up around 12/30/2022 with 36 miles
Currently at 49,515 (probably would be at close to 70k if I was still at my old job)
Home charge limit set to 90% with DCFC limited to the 1-2 road trips per year.
SOH per Car Scanner is showing 99.5%

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