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It's eternally sold out, like most of QC Charge's products especially the ones rated for more than 48A. I suspect they have had supply chain problems with the high amperage J1772 connectors required - I have tried to source them myself and it is very difficult if you are not willing to buy in...

I've had enough trips extended in very inconvenient ways due to blocked or inoperative chargers (including Superchargers - we've been Tesla owners since 2015) that I'll gladly buy a NACS extension cable to increase the likelihood that I can charge immediately any time I roll up to a Supercharger...

If you've got the adapter in hand and confirmed working already, I wonder if you could do a small experiment to help us all know what our payment options are. If you turn off Plug&Charge in Connected Services, is it possible to activate the Supercharger using Tesla's app? There are two reasons...

I hate to see this place turn into the Tesla forums, where you can't do anything but praise the vehicles and company or be shouted down. Could we avoid that, please? I think it's fair to hold @Ford Motor Company accountable for the experience he has had with their dealer network, and it is not...

Also, note that in order to switch between AC and DC modes, an active adapter would need a CPU, appropriate software, and a contactor that could switch 500 amps at 1000V. Even if we assume the contactor could be purpose-built on the assumption that the software would never switch it with...

As noted above, the NACS connector uses the same pins for AC and DC. NACS cars have an extra set of contactors to switch that single pair of pins between AC and DC. Our trucks don't. That's why you need a different NACS to CCS adapter for AC and DC charging. You will not be able to use the...

You would lose the ability to charge from AC chargers (in other words, no more home charging!) if you did that.

Given how the Plug&Charge protocol works (the VIN is embedded in an X.509 certificate) unless they did something really dumb and hacky, spoofing the VIN is not possible, and restricting access to Ford vehicles should be super easy: all and only Ford vehicles will have certificates signed by...

I know of a few electrical contractors who have gone EV for their company trucks. Two small ones and one mid-sized. They put chargers at their employees' homes and reimburse the charging as an expense at some kind of average cents per kwh rate.

PaaK is definitely not supposed to require cell service. I routinely use it in places (Ski Belleayre, I'm looking at you...) where there's no cell service or Wi-Fi in the parking lots.

My loaner was an Escape! I just needed it to get back and forth to work from the dealership so I told them any car would do. It was fine, but it sure wasn't a Lightning. Work's not in my service history in FordPass yet. From work they did on past Ford vehicles in the app era I expect it'll...

So about 2.5 hours of labor (they did replace the wiper motor) but in at least 4 separate tasks. In my line of work our rule of thumb is that if you set out to do 2 different things in the same day, they will get done; 3 things maybe; 4 things forget it. I'm willing to believe good mechanics...

Battery software takes a bit, no? And doesn't the calibration procedure for the 360 cameras involve driving around a large empty parking lot for a while?

To be clear, we originally tried to schedule everything at once, way back in November. But it wasn't until we decided to give up on that a few weeks ago that the logjam seemed to break. I thought I'd have to bring the truck back at some point for the light bar - what a nice surprise that they...

Did you test it? I have a 48,000 BTU mini split that runs full-bore in the depths of winter (we occasionally do get close to its -14F minimum rating) and though it's on a 30A circuit, like most HVAC equipment that's just to handle the startup surge when it cycles. The same is true for a sump...

After a long wait for parts, my dealer's service manager and I decided to throw in the towel and just do the open recall work on my '22 Lariat ER in multiple appointments as the parts came in. They were open yesterday (Washington's Birthday) and had a light schedule so we set up the first...

I've seen butterfly clamps on other people's vehicles but I've never had occasion to use one. Can you suggest a suitable part (Amazon link?) and do you think it could be wiggled into place given the access available under the truck?

Actually, this is probably an incident that should be reported to NHTSA, since it seems likely to have involved a defect in the seat heater, its safety mechanism, or the attached wiring (that would be my bet, personally - the heater should be inherently safe like an electric blanket element, but...

I've had cars before that burned enough oil to make the heater output extremely stinky and maybe even vaguely smoky (1978 VW van RIP). So I can understand how one might treat a bad smell as something that requires pulling over very soon, but not in a dangerous spot along the highway. And it...

Waiting for @Ford Motor Company to ask you for your VIN and the name of your dealer (actually, to be fair, this might be one case where that's helpful!)