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Note that this only works with the Tesla made adapters, I think. The Lectron made one is a bit different shape.

Some might say that the process of planning charging stops on a road trip in a BEV is needlessly complex. ? There are plenty of people who want to just point it and go. You cannot do that with pure electric today. Even with Tesla whose navigation to charging stations is pretty robust, there are...

The 24 Lightning only charges at 48 amps max (unless it's a fleet Pro model with the specific dual onboard chargers option), so you're fine with either. Personally I'd probably get the 80 amp one just for more safety margin, unless it's a lot more expensive, but you don't really need it.

That does sound like a pretty bad experience. But is that a series hybrid like the EREVs being discussed, which have the full EV drivetrain and a completely separate generator setup, or a parallel hybrid which does have the ridiculous complexity you describe? I suspect the latter. EREVs are much...

There are at least two other perfectly valid reasons for an EREV, both revolving around long distance travel. 1) Long haul towing 2) Charging deserts The first is never going away unless/until there is a substantial improvement in battery energy density and/or charging speed. I thought the...

It is soooooo nice just plugging in at home. Around here we had On The Run doing a free charging promo. Completely free DCFC at decent speeds, 350 amps, from Dec-Jan. For a few weeks I was going to the free charger every few days for the free electrons... but it's on the other side of town, and...

That may be true; can't confirm myself. But I do know in my truck if it is already in the blue, it will not heat the battery further. I watch the HVB coolant inlet temperature and it stays at ambient. So it's not circulating coolant through the battery at all in my "moderately cold" temperatures...

I have had it happen once so far in 40K km. Yes it was a snow day and the loss of traction was very noticeable. I haven't seen any remedies posted other than what we both tried - 1) wait, 2) restart a few times. Highly technical troubleshooting approach.

Hehe. I have seen mine in the orange a few times. I think orange starts around -16 or -18 C battery temperature. Never down to 17% power though. It definitely reduces the current limit (hence available power) aggressively when the pack is cold and/or low state of charge like the 45% shown. I...

Definitely no on the CHAdeMO. It's dead. You will definitely want the one for Tesla (NACS) to CCS (DC fast charging) so you can fast charge at Superchargers. You may also want the Tesla (NACS) to J1772 for AC level 2 charging at so-called "destination" chargers. NACS uses the same two pins to...

I have noticed if the battery is really cold, sometimes the truck only requests 200 amps (~70 kW) even if the charger says it's capable of higher. In those cases I haven't seen the truck ramp up even after the battery has warmed. I haven't had a chance to test interrupting and restarting the...

I was being cheap about it so I didn't seek those out. Honestly I slept in the truck most of the time, plugged in to a free or cheap L2 somewhere :D Hotel chargers aren't super common yet I think, but I expect that will improve in future as adoption increases. Regardless of all the BS happening...

Road tripping was actually only slightly cheaper than gas in the Lightning. For the outbound trip I was keeping track and it ended up 14.8c/km. Basically equivalent to a 10 l/100 km gasser. But smooth, quiet, ridiculously powerful, can easily leave the heat/AC on for yourself or the dogs...

Haha that was me last year. Did a shakedown cruise from northern BC to Calgary (2000 km RT) then out to Toronto for the eclipse (9500 km RT). As long as you have charging at home you'll love it I'm sure. You will want a Tesla adapter to make road trips less stressful. More expensive here in...

Dammit. After news of the fix I made my appointment for this for the 25th. Hope they actually release a fix by then.

It would sure be useful if it would stay at least while at parking lot speeds. Trying to maneuver into a tight spot it's sure annoying having to turn the cameras back on every time you shift gears.

It won't charge past your limit. It **may** use a tiny bit of juice from time to time but in my experience that amount will be negligible. We've had a spell of cold weather here, nighttime temperatures around -25 to -30 C for the last week or ten days. I have been watching the battery...

Ford's architecture of a whole bunch of independent small modules communicating with each other can lead to weird and wonderful symptoms when communication is interrupted for some reason. Another failure that's been reported here is the whole instrument cluster just blank and you can still drive...

I think if your government continues on its current path, whether or not there is federal funding for EV chargers will be the least of your worries.

That's the neat part, you don't