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Adding a winch reduces payload capacity pound for pound. Payload is already very limited on our trucks compared to towing capacity - As it is I can't have passengers or any luggage when towing my in-capacity boat (9,100 pounds with 1,100 pounds of tongue weight plus a 200-pound driver limits...

A distinction without a difference. Our 100% IS the 91% to which Ford gives us access. The reality is that the battery is a tank. You can’t use the last 5% in the tank, and you can never top it off above 91% of its actual capacity. And when you get to 91%, the meter tells you that’s 100%...

Correct, but 91% full is still 91% full, and the buffer in the lithium-ion world is still 9%. Your reference is only to the 5% lower reserve below which Ford does not let the battery drop. It isn’t a specific physical part of the battery - just a software limit. Likewise the 9% cap reserve is...

Zero "damage". Wasteful.

charging in a tight range consistently, without ever stressing the upper and lower ends of the range will cause your BMS to lose track of both the upper and lower set points and therefore the total capacity. This throws off the guess-o-meter, but not actual capacity. Your battery will appear...

Batteries don't "know" upper and lower. When you fill to 91%, it is 91% full.

There is no 80% recommendation from Ford - the official word is 90% - but when you hear 80% (such as from Elon Musk or Ford execs off-the-cuff), it is just belt-and-suspenders on top of the 9% reserve they build into the BMS management process. Ford is WAY too conservative on this...

Not applicable to Lightning. It is impossible to charge a Lightning battery to 100%. The BMS does not allow it. You can only charge to 131 kWh, while the total battery size is 143.3 kWh, so in reality the maximum charge is only to 91% of battery capacity. To OP's original question, you have...

I do use an OBDC dongle don’t get that, the BMS only lets out the “clean” version the way I can see it through ABRP - I can get to 100% and it agrees to the truck’s SOC.

You sir, again show your colors. I, again wIll not stoop to your name-calling, but wow, just wow. I am a subject expert in EA’s strategy, a very familiar with the entire history, how they make decisions, the details of their funding and ownership structure. This is NOT all settlement money...

Yeah, I’m sure they never allow scraping the bottom of the battery, so you could be right - the 131 kw we see could be on top of, say 7 kw, and the other 7 kw sits on top of that. I guess that makes sense too. However, having run a battery to empty once in a Tesla, I was told that there was no...

I don’t know how that would work engineering-wise. It’s kind of like a glass of water. You fill from the bottom, not from the middle. The reserve (empty area) is always at the top.

I would not count on the Royal Farm chargers being up. But if you do a full charge at the Sams in Annapolis, you should be good to your destination. The Tesla chargers at the Royal Farms in Easton are fine but being Superchargers you can’t use them, obviously same for the other Eastern shore...

So you are a “whiner” when you state actual personal experience. Using inventive and personal attacks says a lot about you. Name calling is not something I will do here, but wow, you would have it coming.

Yeah, it is definitely both. Typical scenario: EA connection fails pylon one, try pylon 2. Runs slow, call EA support (at least they are always there and cheerful). EA support does remote rest, apologizes, says try the first one again. 40 minutes after first attempt, connection succeeds, but...

I have followed the issue, watch all the threads, don’t conclude it is nearly as widespread as you do. My truck is an early production unit (June 6), lives outside in Florida, gets rained on often, and has not had an issue yet, so what we have so far is anecdotes. I understand your reasoning a...

I’ve read that paper, and my issues didn’t have anything to do with cell degradation - one was a blown contactor, before they had repair procedures, and the other was a BMS issue. I misspoke above - the replacements were on my 2014 Tesla - I had 50k on my 2012 S 85 when trading it in on a ‘14...

I’m not going to engage with you on this other than to say he’s quite respected and makes a living doing evaluations - some of his stuff gets skipped over here, but EV auto manufacturers give him first access, AND he’s the only one of significance getting EA’s attention on these issues. You may...

No, and I have huge respect for Mickey’s experience and guidance on this question. However, I have driven Teslas over 250k miles, had one of their earliest MS deliveries in 2012, had two full battery replacements in my 2012 car, spent a lot of time with their techs. Tesla has a built-in...

Why not? It’s cheap, reliable, tiny, easily obtained, and I’m already using it all the time. I had a huge box of adapters in my Tesla to use at marinas, welding shops, RV parks, and J1772 outlets, which is what our trucks require to do Level 2 (NOT full CCS as everyone here keeps parroting)...