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I keep a mental list of the free charging stations in the near-to-me towns and City. It is kind of surprising but there are quite a few around this area that are level 3 (120kw) Free chargers, one located at a GM dealership !

I would just like to see pull-through chargers along the main hwys - yeah they are planned, and in some places actually being built, but not my neck of the woods...yet.

But the down side is cold. LFP can't be charged below freezing and has limited discharge below freezing.

Great Idea - and really piss off other EV's that not only does it look like we are blocking two chargers with the darn short power cords at Tesla charge stations, we actually ARE using two chargers ! LOL - but honestly wouldn't it be handy if there really were a charge port on each side -...

Fresh hot coffee ice cold beer electric tent heater getting soft in my old age... For the 12v I think I will get a small solar panel battery maintainer...just in case.

I like to know what my equipment can do: the truck cut me off at 167km/h (104mph) on a long straight level section of hwy. Control and stability was solid all the way up to this max speed.

OP said they had the truck in a dealer shop for some work - could the shop have done something that resulted in the 12v AGM dropping to low SOC, or they disconnected things during the work, removed and reinstalled the wheels and now the system is relearning the TPMS ?

Adding Level 1 power will be better than adding zero power?

Interesting thread: clearly we hear of problems with the 12v AGM batteries from members, resulting in issues such as the truck missing or not finishing an OTA update, or some operational issue at start up, or in some cases a member reports not being able to operate the door locks/start the...

I really like the idea of a 12v DC charging point at the HV-plug area like Chi shows. I would like a nice neat bulkhead style fitting for the truck side - and then a convenient plug adapter to fit the bulkhead fitting end. Mayby a KWAY type fitting? something that looks like it belongs inside...

Nope.

OR it tells us they don't really know what they want, so they lean towards what seems most familiar.

I have seen similar result to OP while camping - the electric site had two 120v 15A outlets, so we used one outlet to run an electric tent heater, and I plugged in the truck travel charger to the other outlet (why not?) but next morning the truck had only picked up something like 8kWh overnight...

I recall Ford already makes a PHEV Ranger - for markets in S.Africa/NZ/Australia - no word on a full electric Ranger that I know of, but it would be interesting to see them since these are pretty common mid-sized trucks around here, along with the Tacomas.

Back into the garage instead?

I just got the new Grizzl-E charger delivered today, going to set it up over the weekend and try it out. I also have the ULO rate in my area of Ontario. The 3-cents payback certainly makes the charging almost free after 'delivery' and the meter charge. Amazing compared with paying $140/week...

That ^^^^ would be very handy at the Tesla charging stations..hear that Ford? lol. I saw a 2022 with the charge door on both sides and thought - wait did they have charging on both sides in 2022 and then cut that in 2024...nope.

yes, all the packs need the same number of cells in parallel groups - for balancing reasons, so it makes sense. The ER small pack needs sets of 5 to match the other modules in the battery. Quite Right. So the OP swaped out the SR to ER battery - but the BMS is exterior to the battery isn't...

The smaller pack in the ER battery is the same as the regular packs in the the SR, and in the case of a failure, out of warranty - better to have any pack then none at all... I have thought about putting an EV battery pack between the frame rails of an RV travel trailer for similar set up...

All the batteries are made by SK, including his new one. Maybe the only thing to know and record is the mileage of the replacement battery doner and your mileage at the time of installation. Meanwhile - yeah, I can't see swapping my SR pack out of the truck prior to the warranty running out on...