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Then why not base range on only 70% of the battery pack? Operating between 20% and 90% is reality for most customers. And with worst-case range scenarios for ER trucks about 180mi (85mph highway, even less for towing or extreme cold!) and best case over 400mi (nothing but low speed stop-and-go...

Range is variable, and much under the control of the driver. Motor Trend prepared an eye-opening graph of their longterm test Lightning’s range vs. highway speed: The ranges shown are based on running 100% to 5% SOC; 324mi at 55mph, 214mi at 75mph. Range is over 50% more with a 20mph...

It’s as though everything was geared toward the never-before EV owner, rather than the needs of the same driver after 6 months experience in their Lightning or MME.

And in doing so, it masks the impact of sudden major changes in energy usage, causing an underestimation or overestimation of remaining range. Gives the driver, alternately, a false sense of security or an alarming amount of range anxiety. A “Dynamic Range” would be based upon a time period so...

The mysterious GOM number has been the source of much confusion and controversy over Range in our Lightnings. There was probably a focus group long ago that thought they’d settled the matter, but I‘d really like to have another option: Dynamic Range! Our Lightnings’ GOM Range display (in...

I wish that our Lightnings’ GOM Range display had a setting that (instead of the mysterious “guess” range that is the bane of so many on this forum) would display a “dynamic“ range based upon the instantaneous mi/kWh x the remaining battery kWh. On highway, you would know immediately how to...

It comes as a surprise to most new EV drivers that unlike their ICE vehicles, which get better fuel economy at steady highspeed on the highway than in city driving, EVs are LESS efficient at steady highspeed highway driving, than in the city. The reason is regenerative braking in the EV (helps...

One of the defining characteristics of EVs, including our Lightnings, is their near-perfect F/R weight distribution, thanks to the mass and location of the battery pack, and the relatively lightweight drivetrain components (also a very low center of gravity!).

“Live Charts” is also a really useful feature. Only limitation of this app is that your iOS device has to be connected to the same router/network as your Wall Connector (it can’t access your Wall Connector remotely over the web, only locally). Perhaps some network settings magic (port...

I strongly suggest you download “Wall Monitor for Tesla” App from the iOS App Store (don’t think there’s an Android version). If you have a Tesla Gen3 Wall Connector, this is a must-have: it will reveal the internal state of the charger, including graphs of voltages and currents, in and out...

All true, especially for charging Lightnings, which can pull 500A only very briefly, if ever. However, I think that if we continue to use the V1, and anything were to happen to our trucks or to a Tesla SC, we would be liable. This is now a product RECALL, not simply a goodwill gesture. We are...

This is the important part (the “slider latch” concern is nit-picking, compared to this). I don’t know of many EVs that can pull 500A for extended periods of charging (our Lightnings certainly do not, and cannot!), but maybe this is the high bar for the potential UL-standard requirement...

Ditto here. Googled and found many others having same issue with Pandora and Carplay since release of iOS 18 (not just Fords). Pandora says they‘re working on it. Meantime, I find that changing tabs in carplay Pandora from “Recents” to “My Stations” will allow me to select or change stations...

Ditto here. Googled found many others having same issue with Pandora and Carplay since release iOS 18 (not just Fords). Pandora says they‘re working on it. Meantime, I find that changing tabs from “Recents” to “My Stations” will allow me to select or change stations. Also, the song artwork...

Just to be clear: the ”Enhanced Frunk Functionality” software update some of us received a couple of weeks ago had nothing to do with this. It is entirely a user-generated phenomenon.

The Jack-O’-Lantern came from Amazon (https://a.co/d/9kyC9VT), the rest was 80-lb fishing line and pure inspiration.

So, driving 85mph instead of 65mph saves a whopping one hour on a 1600mi drive? With an additional three charging stops? What if on one or more of those charging stops, the overhead time ends up being a lot longer due to having to wait in line to charge? And only 15min overhead time...

“it’s more time efficient to drive faster and charge more often.” It depends, doesn’t it? Have you ever spent 15min getting through backed-up traffic into a Buc-ee’s to charge? And then 20min to get out of Buc-ee’s and back onto the highway? Maybe not every charging stop wastes as much time...

Funny how more-efficient driving is also faster and cheaper, as it avoids interactions with the Highway Patrol, or the local PD’s edge-of-town speed trap. We live in an age where speed limits are just suggestions, mainly applicable to other people (WE always drive as fast as we want, right?)...