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For short drives, you don't need preconditioning. Full stop. For longer drives, we need a one-time departure time option. Ford is trying to be "smart" about everything with the schedules etc. and failing miserably. Just give us some manual controls. Along the same lines, a manual "precondition...

With my cheapo generator, it won't charge unless I have some other load connected at the time I plug it in. Once it starts I can remove the extra load. I presume this smooths out the waveform a bit so the Lightning can recognize it. OBD dongle shows odd input voltage/frequency measurements...

Initially the cabin heater can draw 8 or 9 kW, but that only lasts a few minutes. Once the cabin heat gets close to the set point it backs off and the steady state draw is more like 1-2 kW. I was watching the numbers just the other day as I was plugged into a level 2 waiting for the highway to...

One size does not fit all. Everyone's use case is different. I live in northern BC, Canada and park outside. Not quite as cold as North Dakota but it's regularly well below freezing for weeks or months. I've had the Lightning for going on a year now and it's been fine for me BUT I accept that...

You're not wrong, but I think that's the point. The 320 EPA number is real, BUT it does not represent the real world conditions in which we care about range. When we're just driving at slow speed around town, yes we'd get that range, but we don't notice or care since we just go home and plug in...

Canada order 11698 delivered today, Nov 30 2024. Model #1434343-21-D mfg day 276

I thought NEVI sites had to work with CCS. That screenshot says adapter required.

Seems to be a lot of this going around. It happens when the truck decides it can't use the front motor for some reason. It seems a bit suspicious to see multiple reports in such a short time. I wonder if it's related to some software update somehow.

I thought this was going to be a rant about the glaring omission of a one-time departure time, like the one-time charge limit. But no

Similar thing happened to me today. Strange things are afoot at the Circle K. First time I've seen it though a few people here have mentioned it as you know. I don't care much about the loss of power; 56% of a ridiculous amount is still a pretty high amount ? but it's a snow day, and the loss...

Right, that's why I said I was planning to epoxy magnets to the back of the fender

Charging schedules are tied to locations, as in the physical GPS location of the truck. So it's not surprising they couldn't set it up for you if the truck was at the dealer and not physically at the charging location. Also, the truck has to be actively plugged in and charging or you can't...

I haven't covered mine, but I keep thinking it wouldn't be a bad idea. There are cheap magnetic covers available from China; I was thinking of using one of those with some magnets epoxied to the back of the fender (since it's aluminum). But haven't gotten around to that and not sure how best to...

It's a great feeling getting a free charge ? On the Run gas stations in Canada had free charging for a long time. I did a 2000 km road trip for about 20 bucks lol. Could have been free but I wanted to do the Icefields Parkway and there wasn't a free charger in Jasper. There are still a couple...

Yes. Tow/haul did nothing for battery heating for me today. Outside temp is around -13 or -14 C and battery temp was -11 C. It stayed there in normal, sport or tow/haul. I thought it might heat it up a bit in Sport since the available power was reduced to 82% with the cold battery. But no. That...

Local Costco had some EV side by sides a while back. In discussion threads everyone was piling the usual hate on for EVs. I mentioned the fact that they are silent, which is a big plus for hunting. The cognitive dissonance was amusing when people realized EVs can actually have some advantages

Also note that, as shown in that screenshot a few posts up, the coolant heater can draw 8 or 9 kW that isn't going to the battery. So between charging losses and that extra power for heating, it's not surprising that the delivered power numbers can be higher than theoretical max that the battery...

The one thing ABRP can do is integrate with an OBD dongle to get real time feedback on how fast you're using energy. So in theory its real time route adjustments could be better than the others. I haven't used it that way myself though. I haven't road tripped in unfamiliar areas enough to need...

I'm under the impression that number appears when the truck decides the front motor is not available for some reason. I haven't seen it myself though, just read about it.

I think the fundamental flaw in your understanding is your assumption that Ford software works in some logical way. ? (I haven't figured it out either... sometimes adjustments seem to stick; sometimes not)