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There's a video (approx Summer of 2022) with Tom Moloughney (Inside EV's/State of Charge YouTuber) interviewing Darren Palmer (I think the VP of EV's for FORD), and they were talking about the Lightning warranty, and I remember Darren specifically telling Tom that the warranty is designed to...

This is very helpful. The Noco GBX55 that I posted a picture of at the start of the thread has a peak current rating of 1750 amps which should be more than enough to handle that inrush current and much more. It also has a 46 watt hour lithium ion battery which may prove useful if needing to...

Based on the EPA range rating of 450 miles and the media’s speculation that it has a 212 kwh useable capacity, that would indicate the truck averages close to 2.1 mi/kwh, and even at 500 miles of range like the engineer said, that comes out to be slightly less than 2.4 mi/kwh. The Lightning’s...

I was just trying to say that obviously there’s no engine component that requires cranking and turning over to get started, so the only thing to provide power to is whatever the truck needs to go into its “ready to drive mode”. Yes I agree its the same thing, I’m just really interested in...

I think we all agree that using another vehicle via jumper cables or using a jump box is not “starting” the lightning but rather providing the necessary wattage required to initiate the boot up sequence of the software as well as close the high voltage contactors to allow it to begin supplying...

Why does FORD have a “Jump Starting the Vehicle” section in the manual if you are not jumping the battery but charging it?

I think the goal of using a jump box on an EV with a dead 12 volt battery would be to get the vehicle “on” so it could be driven. Once the lightning is “on” which requires a 12 volt battery to initiate, the high voltage battery will then take over and supply any power needed through the DC to DC...

Just curious if there’s any reason not to use a jump box like this NOCO GBX75 1750 amp lithium jump box on the lightning 12 volt battery in a case where the 12 volt battery was dead and needed jumped? The lightning owner manual says the motorcraft BHAGM-H3 is the replacement 12 volt. This is an...

I believe the first drive reviews are indicating that the Chevy Silverado will not do whole home back up like the lightning. Chevy is instead selling an adapter for the J1772 plug that provides additional outlets for the portable generator option. So FORD definitely has an advantage on that...

I Recently finished my install of the HIS with a 10 kw PV array. Everything is working great however I am curious if anyone has had success setting up a cloud monitoring account for the solar production? As of right now, I have to be within Bluetooth range of my inverter (about 2-3 feet) in...

If Chevy doesn’t include an 80 amp on board charger it will take even longer. The hummer ev has an 48 amp on board charger and my guess is, if the Silverado EV has the same size battery pack as the hummer EV it will likely have the same charger on board. So do the math on how long it takes to...

Just curious if you reset the “EV driving history” when charging to 100% at 66 degree Temps and got the 312 miles of range. If so then that is great to know that you are only seeing roughly 2.5% (8/320) battery degradation after 50K miles

That could be what it is doing based on my electrical companies usage data, looks like the morning preconditions are only using 5-6 kWh of electricity. Weird that it would show the charging session amount at the end of the day and then also include that information on the next days information...

Recently got my charge station pro wired up at my house and have been using it for the last couple of weeks to charge my truck and to precondition for daily drives. Through the Ford Pass app you can see “insights” to these charging sessions. I noticed that my preconditioning sessions were...

Here’s mine with the Home integration system we DIY installed. I made sure to install my pro charger in a position in the garage so basically anyway I park my truck in the garage the 25 foot cable can reach my truck or another EV eventually.

Does anyone know if there are a specific brand of battery packs that are compatible with the Delta inverter that is part of the HIS? Obviously the truck is a HUGE battery back up, but I’m interested to know if you pair the HIS with another smaller battery like an LG Chem battery, can the HIS...

I’ve noticed my mobile charger that is connected via NEMA 14-50 is showing a partial amber color on the blue indicator of the charger. I have also noticed recently that my truck is only getting about 5kw of electricity per hour during routine charges when previously it was getting over 6 kw per...

I wonder if driving the truck with the battery “cold soaked” (sitting at cold temps for hours overnight” is hard on the battery at all? I expect it probably isn’t but I know the ford engineers say preconditioning the battery at some point in the day allows the battery to retain a lot of that...

With the Tesla price cuts and some models qualifying for the $7500 tax credit, I would heavily consider a Tesla Model 3 or Model Y right now if I were you. I understand some may not be a fan of Tesla but its hard to argue with their reliability and charging network.

I would get the 10 KW inverter just because its the same price and gives you flexibility to increase the size of your system. I have the 10 KW and I’m installing enough panels to do the full 10 KW for back up purposes.