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How does that work? According to their website, membership has requirements and they don't mention donations as working.

Good to know. I've been on the fence about the Lightning for a bunch of reasons, but will probably accept delivery end of this month.

It's dumb that they don't offer the bench seat. The cab is exactly like every other F150 and they offer bench seats in other trims.

Why do you want to trade the Rivian? (Just curious)

Awesome thanks. Is there anyway to track where the truck is in its route to my dealer?

If you truck is ON but locked, can someone theoretically break in a drive away?

Parsons is at 3.99% now, any better places to go?

I hear you, but these things are $80K+ and these seats are worse than any leather seat I've seen in terms of wrinkling. And seats are arguably the thing you interact with the most and see every time you or a guest get in the truck. The Ford MBA cost cutters have their priorities wrong.

That's great. I see the same in the Ford site. For some reason, I used to get emails from Ford, but haven't received anything in a while and nothing about build progress since the first email.

That depends on a lot of factors. The battery generates heat itself as it's used so if it generates enough heat to keep it warm without extra warming then no extra battery usage. This depends on how well it's insulated against outside temps and other factors.

Some people have described as dolphin skin blue.

From the picture, it looks like a hydronic heating system like RVers use. I don't know which exact system he's using, but you can get hydronic systems with 87% thermal efficiency or higher. In this case, he's using a 'boiler' to just heat the glycol and then relying on the trucks heat exchanger...

Not really. The efficiency of burning anything to generate HEAT ENERGY is very high. You might be thinking of the efficiency of burning gas to generate MECHANICAL energy. A decent burner system should get 90%+ of the energy in the form of heat.

That is such BS! :mad: How is it that Tesla is making more cars than ever (more than a million a year), but Ford can't get their trucks built?! They should have redesigned around the chip shortage by now. Tesla was able to switch chips/suppliers almost overnight.

Maybe eventually you can get some data collection going and measure the difference with and without the aux heater? Hard to tell what you're saving in this case because of the trailer (190 mile range might be pretty good depending on what you're towing -- I assume you have the ER truck)...

The Lightning seats are seriously disappointing. I don't know how they justify such thin crappy leather in $80K+ trucks. I would seriously consider cancelling my order (for this and other reasons) except that there isn't anything else at the moment.

Car and driver measured that Lightning at 1dB louder than a Mercedes S-class at highway speeds. I'm expecting it to be super quiet.

Has anyone who has the click tried jacking one of the wheels off the ground and moving the tire by hand? If it's the CV joint (or spline), you should be able to replicate the click by twisting the tire by hand (when it's off the ground of course). Another possibility is the CV mating surface...

Do you know if the loop you spliced into is also the battery warming loop? I think you would gain much more range by helping the battery warm up vs the cabin.

It's amazing to me that Ford still hasn't figured out how to make the sunroof construction reliable. This problem goes all the way back to the first pano roofs on the ICE models and has been reported many many times. Usually, the drains that run down the A pillars get messed up in...