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Nice write-up, and glad you had a successful trip. I've done a bunch of 200-300 mile trips in my '23 SR and I've seen the charging infrastructure grow and become more reliable in just the last two years. Many won't believe this, but even my last 3 or 4 stops at EA were a first-try success...

We run two Emporia EVSEs on one 60A circuit. They are set to charge at 24A each, but I can bump it up in the app if I need to (almost never happens). If you charge both vehicles simultaneously every day, this is probably not the best solution. For us, however, it works beautifully.

Based on the actual sales numbers vs. the number of reservations, they converted less than 3% of their original 1,000,000 reservations to sales. Say what you will, that's not what I'd call "selling well."

That is one of the least cluttered garages I've ever seen. I mean, the EVs are great, too, but... that garage! :) Welcome!

Are you kidding? In some parts of Texas that's enough snow to cause a full-blown Winter Emergency declaration! @grange, Yup. BTDT. I live in the foothills (i.e., SNOW) but routinely drive down to civilization (i.e., never seen snow). Even when I kinda clean up the stuff I can see, the truck...

Like you, I have very limited power available in my panel (only about 60A). My advice would be to hard wire a charger on your unused circuit (I use an EVSE from Emporia; there are many threads on this topic) and set the amperage to "something lower" than max. The preferences for my system are...

I plowed several miles of road yesterday while driving backwards. Admittedly, I was on a tractor with a rear blade and ~12 inches of wet, heavy snow, but good luck driving over that for donuts. (There is a thread on the forum about pulling stuck vehicles out of ditches...just sayin'.) Every...

Congrats on the new truck, I think you're gonna to love it. My advice for new owners is simple... all DCFC chargers are not created equal. Read up a bit, and explore/practice a bit before you really need to charge out on the road someplace. (If this isn't your first EV, then please...

I'm a bit surprised by the negative responses to this thread. Yes, the Lightning isn't exactly svelte, but like others have said it's really not such a big deal. I drive mine in San Francisco all the time! If you can charge at home, you'll love the Lightning (we now have two of 'em). I just...

Here's how it all went down: I bought a Lightning, my wife decided she REALLY liked it, and so I had to go out and buy another Lightning if I wanted to drive one. (As an aside, it looks like she'll be driving the new one now, while I'll be getting "mine" back... go figure.) I'd be curious...

You are not wrong, but there have been so many false claims about electric vehicle fires (like these) that I, too, can default to the "that's another fake" mindset.

My 23 XLT SR came home in October '23. Wouldn't change a single thing.

Oh, so many things, and so many opinions. We should probably start a new thread for this. With apologies to the OP... TLDR: Let someone else break their truck and hurt themselves while you shoot video from a safe distance. ________ You can use the recovery hooks on the front. Better...

I've seen the same kind of behavior. Yesterday I tried starting the charge and then adjusting the slider. As soon as I move the slider, charging stopped and I couldn't get it started again. After fighting with it for a little while I just walked away. The truck charged exactly as expected...

I'm a slow poke... I see about 1.9-2.1 when I'm tootling along at 65-ish. Hills, wind, rain, and cold will all lower that. If you're locked in to driving at 80 MPH, then you're going to be stopping. A lot.

As a matter of course, there is no down side to charging at 24A. Charging at that rate, the truck is ready at just about the same time I am. Without any data to back this up, my intuition tells me that running everything at redline all the time can't be a best practice. At the very least, you...

Just to be clear, that "320 mile range" is not some kind of an advertisement from Ford; it's an EPA estimate based on the EPA's required test method.

Lots of good options... I have an Emporia EVSE installed on my wall (love it) that can deliver 48A max charge rate. But I never seem to need to charge at 48 amps. It turns on at midnight at 24A and the truck is ready to go when I wake up. Yes, if you've run your battery down really, really...

I envy you folks in that you can run dedicated snow tires. I live at ~4200' elevation, but "town" is down around 1200'. I can have 2 feet of snow to deal with here, but find high 50's and sunshine in town. It's nice in that I can drive 30 minutes and leave winter behind, but the last 10 miles...

For me, it'll be "wheels fall off."