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I was worried a bit about eventual environmental impacts on the Ford CSP mounted out on my driveway, despite its factory weather-proofing... things can fail over time with constant exposure to water and temp swings and snow and ice. To mitigate this, I found a 24-inch basement window well...

UPDATE on the use of the Hummer spare wheel cover during Winter's icy grip: I busted a tire sidewall late last week on a high curb in the snowing icy January weather. No problem: I switched the busted wheel on the roadside with the full size full use spare wheel, threw the busted tire wheel...

I recall (likely correctly but it's been a while) that Mercon was also the fluid used in my 2022 Ford Mustang Mach E, in its AWD motors.

I've ridden this highway, on my motorcycle back in Summer of 1986. I can indeed attest that, at least in 1986, pretty much the whole highway on Newfoundland until You got to the Saint Johns area in the East was one solid stretch of desolate albeit beautiful road. I'd be surprised if it has...

SpaceEVDriver's setup as it evolves will give me the security to range farther with our Off-Road TimberLeaf Pika teardrop camper. The Pika already has a great LightLeaf solar panel which is enough to keep the trailer's Dakota Lithium battery charged up, pretty much indefinitely, and that in...

My information is from 2022 - 2024. Of course it's dated... things change all the time, as per my post.

The DC Fast charging prices depend, among other corporate decisions for that particular charging network, on the state that the DC Fast charging session happens in. Electricity, like natural gas and potable water, is a state regulated utility deemed necessary for economic social functioning of...

I also moved up from the Mach E (Premium Tech ER AWD trim) to the Lightning. I did it though because the Mach E's front motor failed... twice. Both times replaced under warranty and promptly , but the powertrain warranty was about to run out this year, and... They are very different vehicles...

Bean teardrop trailers are awesome! ...as are pretty much all teardrop trailers :wink: It's a classic American road invention going back about 90 years now, and making a comeback these days.

I backed into my high option 2023 Lightning XLT ER in July 2024 when my 2022 Mach E began to fail (front motor replaced, twice). Lote this truck. It is nearly perfect. Knowing what I now know, I pretty much lucked into a perfect vehicle. Like B177y above, I love the smaller screen and the...

I assume that to get this working the Lightning needs at least power folding mirrors, and possibly also a memory capacity in the outside mirrors?

I have the standard "clasp" one and I love it. BTW - no BlueCruise for me.

Yeah so true. I remember back when I was serving in uniform in Europe, a general officer in either Wiesbaden or Heidelberg, both major Army commands at the time, ordered multiple dozens of flags for a ceremonial conference room or something like that... and he had no $$$ left in the...

The North Rim is much more remote and undeveloped. Few charging points there when we visited and stayed the night back in Summer 2023 (with the Mach E). The closest set of DC Fast charging points then was a cluster of ChargePoint stations in the municipal parking lot in Kanab, Utah, pretty...

FYI I've seen such receptacle postings and warnings before on parking lot receptacles in a certain Federal agency parking lot where I used to work. This is driven by the legal distinction between "Appropriated Funding" and Non-Appropriated Funding" and the two cannot be mixed, under the threat...

...or when You (or, when I) go camping and on long trips with teens and preteens. No fobs to get lost, ever.

I'll support Tom and nominate these new colloquial names for: - the power cord as "the Juice", - the truck as "the Burping Baby" and - the wall box as "the Juicebox". ...oh dang that last one is already taken ????

Phone charger, yes. Laptop charger, yes. Car cord = "EVSE". If we really want to, I can attach the picture of the Ford documentation for my truck that says it has "2 chargers". ...if I can find that pic again. "Worldwide" is a very wide-scope and fuzzy word and I'm not sure if it...

It is not my definition. Let's clarify our terms. When we look deeply into our trucks' equipment sheets, one item = "charger". On my 2023 XLT ER's sheet it lists "2 chargers". The industry' association's agreed term for over a decade now has been "electric vehicle supply equipment" no matter...

For clarity and precision of terms, the "charger" is always inside the truck, or any EV. It demands and regulates electrical input from the "charging supply equipment" or as I call them, the "charging spigot" what that in turn happens to be a DC or AC supply spigot.