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Carboncounter.com | Cars evaluated against climate targets (from MIT) You can identify vehicles by mousing over the various dots. The Ford F-150 Lightning Pro is the yellow dot in the middle just above the highest dashed line. I was all for fuel cells and a hydrogen economy, but you can see...

OTH, unregulated free markets and unregulated regional banks led to stupendous economic boom and bust cycles, particularly in 19th-century America and leading up to the Great Depression. Sometimes there's very little to keep humans from all rushing over to one side of the boat like lemmings...

The cost of a portable AC unit, although less efficient than a window AC (not allowed by our HOA rules), is really not that bad. Since I'm in southern Texas, the need to warm the battery in winter is almost non-existent. However, in summer, as I pointed out and to which you haven't replied...

When the truck heats or cools its main battery, is the energy derived from the battery? If so, then by using the truck battery to do this, you're adding extra lifetime cycles to the battery to heat or cool the battery in your garage. Although it might not be very much energy instantaneously...

Tom Moloughney, on his State of Charge YouTube channel, has an interview with Darren Palmer, VP of the electric vehicles division at Ford. Palmer says that Ford didn't want to end up paying for replacement batteries under warranty. Their warranty of 8 years or 100K miles, whichever comes...

I'm suggesting that if I break down in the middle of nowhere somewhere in the West, I'm more likely to find a Ford dealer within hailing distance than a Kia dealer. I've scrimped all my life, now I'm 77, and I can't take my savings, etc., with me. I've always wanted to own a truck but was...

I don't think I can haul the stuff I have in a 2019 Kia Niro EV! And a lot of places in Texas will be Kia Niro Huh?! I'll never forget driving west to grad school in the '60's in a Chevy Corvair. I pulled into a gas station somewhere in Montana and some fella said, "I always wanted to see one...

Interesting report - someone will have to explain to me what Tesla's position on the chart means. Perhaps it means Tesla owners love their vehicles, too, but buy lots of other brands as well. Ford Owners Remain Least Likely To Be 'One And Done' Buyers (fordauthority.com)

You get somewhat less range (more rolling resistance), decidedly fewer lifetime miles driven (~40,000 vs. ~60,000), and more road noise, is my understanding. That's why I opted for all-season even though the default "peopling" of my order tried to put all-terrain tires on my truck. I plan to...

I have an old Genie garage door opener. I haven't gotten my truck or read the manual yet. Several years ago, I got a Meross garage door remote on Amazon to interface with the Genie. It just creates a parallel circuit to trip the opener mechanism. Everything else about the Genie functions as...

Being new to the forum, I thought at first that you were being a bit extreme..., but then I read some of the other threads on the HIS or whatever it's called. Yikes...

https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/car-personalization-us/resources/auto-window-tint-simulator/

Late to the party here. My truck is build week 2/13. In Texas any film on the front windshield has to be clear (or at least 90% VLT, based on reading ads about what tinters can apply). Was wondering if TSER (Total Solar Energy Rejected) figures are available for the Lightning windows as the...

I guess if you want to give someone a lot of money, you could try Sunrun. I haven't gotten my truck yet (2/13/23 build week) but I had Sunrun come out to look at my garage (I'm in San Antonio). They want $1,250 to install the 80-amp charger that comes with my Lariat ER and $8,900*** to install...