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The places with cheap electricity, and expensive gas are perfect for EV's. The places with expensive electricity and cheap gas on the other hand - not so much. I bought the Lightning knowing it is still early stages of the whole electric truck development process. It serves my needs and with...

I don't disagree, most people who buy an RV use it a handful of times per year. Renting one for a week may be a better model, rather than selling them. My own idea is a removeable battery pack for various uses: Say during winter the battery pack connects to a home energy system, and then in...

For trailer hauling: battery in the trailer, and the trailer powers itself down the road, with a small tug on the truck, to keep the truck as the master, and the trailer the student...they did it here. but sit down before you see the price. Interesting to see people working on these ideas and...

Most home solar battery systems are "48volt nominal" lithium-iron-phosphate, which operate between 48v DC and 56v DC. The two largest firms that supply home energy storage (Tesla and Sunrun) both use 48volt nominal. The EG4 chargeverters are an easy method for the non-electrically trained...

For anyone interested and following along home solar with V2L back-up: The other option is DC charging the home battery from the EV; ie using an EG4-chargeverter powered by EV AC-output the chargverter can be set up to add energy into the home battery DC. There is no ground connection to...

Was "400W' idle confirmed somewhere?

Any inverter that is 'on' ie producing 120/240AC from a DC source is using some idle current to do so, even if there are zero AC loads. The best inverter equipment has very low idle current draw, while cheap stuff uses quite a lot. My very first 6kW inverter I bought for solar-battery system had...

It seems the truck already uses temperature monitoring in the charging system to reduce charging rate, from what we have seen on the forum. ie this is why you start off on a DCFC at very high current but only for 6-12 minutes or so, then it gradually reduces. The extension cord will increase...

Temperature ?

lots of them around here...hope they expand them over the next few years... From my recent trip - I charged in Ignace Ontario ( a tiny northern town on the TransCanada Hwy system). From an online search: Yes, there is a Tesla Supercharger (DCFC) station in Ignace, Ontario, located at the...

very true, limited to 100kW charging rate - but better than getting zero-kW while parked, waiting for a charger that can reach the truck charge-point IMHO. In locations with huge DCFC stations with dozens of chargers, this may never be a problem, but in the places I travel, these stations are...

+1 I bought both the A2Z Typhoon and the destination charge adapter and these are very well made.

I keep checking on the A2Z model, 6 feet is about right from my own checking at a DCFC - but the price will need to be sensible...I recently needed to use the DCFC in Prawda Manitoba and there was only one station open when I arrived...lucky for me it was the end unit so I wasn't...

Advice for the OP - A Few points: If you don't need ER, you can spend less on the SR and still do what you want, keeps the truck a bit lighter, less weight seemed barely noticeable when I test drove both trucks, but I figured no sense to carry extra weight on the tires if not needed. Model year...

I have a hybrid solar system - generally 'off-grid' until winter when local utility charges my stationary ESS battery system overnight at very very low ToU rates. For back up power, say during a winter utility outage, when little solar potential is available, I have two options for reserve...

I wish they kept the charge door on PS and added another charging port !, so the truck doesn't block two spaces at DCFC where the cords are too short to reach DS. I saw a Sierra charging recently and they have DS rear charge port.

What do you know about the battery - 1. why was it available (removed from a truck due to failure? ) 2. is this battery the 98kW, 120 or 131 ? 3. can you test the voltage - how long has it been idle ? 4. do you have any of the other parts from the original truck -ie the charging system?

Interesting to see Ford continues to experiment on the base Lightning platform. Off-roading is not really my thing - but the fact they continue to experiment with the Lightning line up, encourages me that they are not planning to drop it when the new smaller EV truck is launched. If it appeals...

I waited a few years after the lightning launch, for the cost to come down. Once I had the truck it quickly turned my attention to the "only thing that now matters" - the charging network. Main hwy is no issue, but secondary routes have a long way to go yet.

I mean a home solar system with battery storage - although there are plenty of systms that use the grid as a battery. If your EV charging options are local DCFC or home solar - you may be able to offset 40-cents/kWh cost compared with home use of the same power offsetting a 15-cents/kWh utility...