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For long trips - do you guys pick times and places for meal stops = longer charging at those stops, then shorter 'breaks' inbetween for bathroom break/coffee while charging 15-20 minutes and back on the road, overnight stop at hotel with L2 charging for next day 100% soc to start off the trip...

Can I ask here: Does this part of the truck (discussed above) allow us to add a temporary roof support for say a long ladder or a canoe/kayak? I would like to put these types of things up on the truck without adding a headache rack permanently to the box. If there were a way to add a roof rack...

In my experience, as long as you leave sufficient distance in front, you can use 1PD and come to a complete stop without ever touching the brake pedal and no friction brakes are ever used. After a couple months in Feb-March (snow and salted road season) I noticed the rotors were not staying...

When people see my truck they ask if it is an EV ... because it is not super-obvious that it is.. Last night my wife and I were at a camp fire party and we used the rear of the truck - wider for two people - so it was not super obvious the truck was EV - since we didn't open the "frunk". couple...

I put in a bed rug matt when I got the truck, and a solid 3-fold tonneau cover. been thinking about two options for bed protection: 1. spray in liner with the rug on top as well. 2. spray just the vertical areas/wheel housings and leave the floor with the bed rug as is. Still thinking about it...

I take a close look at them when rotating the tires - which is a good thing since otherwise I might avoid rotating tires...lol I feel in the Rust Belt/Salt Zone we are going to see brake pad replacement due to Rust-Jacking long before pad wear. Just my gut feeling at this point.

31,000 km since January, (19,375miles) - every Monday I drive to a near-by City for work related stuff. I have made a new habbit of shifting to N and using the friction brakes as I slow down from Hwy speed to city traffic speed...so my friction brakes come on AT ALL once a week...I love 1PD.

So, the take-away... Drive as fast as permitted/weather conditions allow, will save total trip time, but add cost. 1. assumes chargers available along the route, within the range of the EV. 2. select faster chargers over slower available along the route when both are present.

Considering the low cost of someone plugging in while they shop for a $70,000 auto...blocking the chargers seems toxic to gaining any new customers...why pay to install chargers then not let anyone use them? If they don't want anyone to charge for free, install pay-to-play chargers instead? I...

Connected Services - no option for anything but a US state address. Maybe they hide it somewhere. Why not just put a line for "Country" too much to ask?

It is interesting to see the sales figures where they are, in light of the environment that has been created around them, the lack of any ads (at least any I see) and the release of the competing GM Sierra about a year ago. Instead of looking at Lightning sales 2024 compared to 2025, what do we...

I have stopped in a small town to grab something to eat during a trip, pulled into the local Ford Dealership and plugged in for free - typically just a L2 30A charger, but hey, for free. Around here these are typically ChargePoint chargers. I also find these same chargers at Service Ontario and...

I live in a Hamlet of less than 1,000 population - and had the first Lightning in the sticks here, but now I see another one down the road a bit from me, they bought the Flash and it looks great. I have a buddy that called up - his neighbour wanted to know if they could ask me some things about...

Very interesting, I was going the right direction to be down wind, so that may be the missing bit. ok geek out alert - some TLDR stuff follows. and some math. Now I want to consider two scenarios - slower and no stop, vs faster but adding a stop to charge. We lose travel distance while sitting...

In January 2025, I test drove and compared the F-150 XLT5.0L ICE to the XLT SR Lightning. With the Ford discount and a further Dealer discount, the Lightning and the ICE were the same price at the time. The Lightning had a number of nice options that are not standard XLT features thou. I...

yes, actually it would have been +/- 150m /500 foot drop from start to finish, with lots of small hills during the drive. Not windy at the time. From your model, what is the max range speed? is there a point where going slower uses more energy per 100km?

I am curious about this one - the max possible range and what speed to achieve it: I had to take 'the back road home' a week ago due to an accident blocking my main hwy. The alternate route was low speed back road, but paved, and I was wondering what the effect would be on my range - turns out...

My experience with my SR Lightning: The Guess-O-meter always goes to 384km range when I charge to 100%. It doesn't chage to any other value no matter how I have been driving it. The 384km range is exactly the claimed range. To actually get that range from the truck on the hwy, I must drive on...

you should post on that thread the link to this one - for perspective...

Maybe - ten speed transmission - most are not going to fix that at home, turbo, internal engine parts, transfer case - some have the tools and know how to do these repairs, but most don't. The fewer and simpler parts of the Lightning and the aluminum body panels may lead to these trucks...