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Wondered about this, I have a 48A charger, so I put the meter on it: - on the AC side it is pulling 47A at exactly 240V thats 11,280W - on the DC side it is 10.5kW output meaning I am currently heating my shop with a 780W electric heater - apparently. Maybe I should check the power factor...

Warning - TLDR post follows... I live in a place with frequent winter power outages, with my home and business on side by side properties. When the lights went out with paid staff standing around - something had to change. Solar-battery-back-up to the rescue - at first just enough to keep the...

I hope these last far Longer than the 2014's !! :) Take it for a nice long drive and enjoy the silent ride. We went on a long 1000km (600mile) trip recently and my wife told our friends "the most unexpected feature is the low noise and charging stops make the trip far less tiring" I had to...

Single cells? The lightning is pouch cells. Maybe disassemble to packs and work with those as an option, But the easier way with solar is use the full 380VDC as an alternate "PV input" since the inverter will only draw what it needs, and typical Inverter input can handle any DC voltage between...

48A x 240V = 11.5Kw

I think you need to list out the features/options from each to reaaly know. My own XLT has so many options that were not part of a base 2024 XLT, I had to make a list of them and do some research to 'know' where the price was compared to a build price. I bought the 2024 in Jan 2025 and got a...

Good to hear. I bought my truck in January 2025 so had a bit of winter experience. I park in an open car-port where my charger is set up. I plug in as soon as I get in each day and leave it plugged in until I am about to drive away again the next day. I set up the Departure Times, The cabin...

i firmly believe the battery tech is 'just around the corner' and any major auto maker that doesn't have an EV plateform already to put the new battery tech in, will be so far behind they will never catch up. Remember, N.America is not leading in EV development and adoption, we are following behind.

Considering the issues with low 12v SOC especially for those of us with "real winter" half the year...has anyone looked at using a larger capacity 12v battery? or even connecting two in parallel?

Very nice looking truck ! and welcome to the forum. If I can ask, did Ford Motor Co and the Dealer take $ off the MSRP for your purchase? We discuss here the sales figures quite often, and I am curious what the current sales incentives are from Ford and the dealers generally.

Some generators are 'rated' as stand-by-duty (for back up energy only) while other (more expensive, and efficient) generators are rated as Primary-power, ie designed to run long periods of time instead of occational back-up power units. As we know, a dedicated 60kW generator in industry is...

makes me wonder - does the 3.7L engine have enough power to run a 60kW generator? My comments are not support of the gas-electric drivetrain, just noting that range entension doesn't have to mean unlimited range. For big trailers I perfer the "idea" of the trailer having it's own battery and...

Why do you think so? I have two Sodium battery packs, each are 100AH packs, one 12v one24v. I bought these three years ago, and use them for service work to run inverters (before the Lightning I needed small travel 120VAC systems, that could take the winter more or less) The advantage of the...

With disappointing sales, you can expect Ford to continue to play around with the existing model to see what they can sell, and to who. ie the removal of features in 2025 to reduce cost (increase margin/reduce loss per vehicle) will continue and the STX makes sense with this thinking - make the...

at 60 mph the lightning running down the hwy without a trailer uses about 30kwh per hour. A separate charging system could supply 30kW and the truck would drive until you run out of gas for the back up generator. If we say the truck with a trailer is using double the energy - 60kWh per hour...

nice thing these days is being able to find real owners of stuff and hear their experience and comments. Sure helps to bring attention to possible problems, then you check into it for yourself. As a 2024 lighting owner, compared with the 2023, I think the heat pump is a good improvement, and...

Ditto, I bought the Lightning SR as replacement for my Ram 2500 - and around town short haul low speed the Lighting puts that Ram to SHAME pulling trailers in a City, stop and go.

Interesting - but direct from solar has some limitations that DC battery to DC battery doesn't suffer - ie sunlight requirements. My question still stands unanswered - what does it take ,communication wise, between a DC charging source and the Truck input, to complete the 'hand-shake' and allow...

Joe I would look for a 2024, and not because that is my MY, but because of the heat pump they added in 2024, and the features they took away from the truck in 2025. Your summer A/C requirement in Florida may kill more kWh per mile than my heating load. This is due to the ambient heat outside...

Interesting ideas, and with a genny, it can do other jobs when you like, and be back-up during utility outage for your home, etc etc. The generator with the efficiency of an engine that can run one RPM, at maximum fuel/output power is far and away better than any ICE engine, not to mention doing...