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Great illustration of why it’s simply not true, that Lightnings don’t charge faster on 350kW chargers… To see 174kW, with the Lightning’s battery pack voltage in the low-to-mid 300V range, the truck has to be able to receive 500A (as in 344V x 500A = 174kW). Only the 350kW EA units are able to...

I wonder if the design of the IPC was revised somewhere along the way, and became non-updatable. All ‘22s seem to have received (or are able to) the SOC IPC update, while very few ‘23 owners are reporting a successful SOC display update.

My dealer also performed the FDRS “update all modules” at my request (and expense) with the same result. I’m sorry there’s this mystery of inconsistent updating between trucks, but it’s somewhat better to know we are in the same boat. Thanks for posting.

Thanks for raising that question- that’s probably the most good that can come from this thread.

Thanks for your detailed reply- seems like a lot more ‘22s got the update to the IPM than ‘23s, including trucks just produced but lacking the SOC % in the instrument cluster. (??) And I agree with you- one would think that software for these modules would be cumulative, that the current version...

Wow, that’s an interesting datapoint: same customer, two trucks; got the update on your ‘22 but not on your ‘23! I’m beginning to think my non-updated ‘23 is not an anomaly, but part of a large group of trucks that for whatever reason, Ford is choosing not to update.

I could understand if there were exclusions for display changes to Sync4 (12” screen) vs Sync4A (15” screen), or possibly, for charge-curve changes to SR vs. ER. But updates to the instrument cluster, or behind-the-screens things like the driver profile stuff you mention, seem applicable to all...

Thanks for your post; I’m familiar with that thread. For the record, in 6mos/8k, I’ve never received an OTA. I’ve reached out to dealer, also to Ford In-Vehicle-Tech team, who provided a case number but said to work with my dealer. I received some kind assistance on this forum from Mike G...

Nice to know! Do you know specifically what your dealer updated for you, in FDRS? It would almost be worth making a flat tire, to get the SOC display update! ;) My dealer reluctantly responded to my request for general FDRS updates of modules, beginning with gateway modules, etc. Two days in...

Just curious: is yours a ‘22 or ‘23? And I can’t help wondering, if the chime volume update was done as a safety improvement, why hasn’t it (along with numeric SOC) appeared on new production trucks? I wish Ford could be a little more transparent about the OTA updates process, or at least...

So far, I haven’t heard of anyone with a 2023 MY who has this update, only 2022 (including Tom Moloughney). ??

Interesting. I would have expected that software updates in an OTA back in July would have become “standard issue” in Lightnings by now. Yours is consistent with the two new trucks I checked on dealer lots.

Tom Moloughney’s latest 15k-Mile Lightning review video (“State of Charge” Youtube channel) included his appreciation of Ford adding current SOC to the instrument cluster via OTA update (10:48 in the video): Other posters in this forum announced receiving this significant feature in an OTA...

Here’s a suggestion: monitor SOC, not “GOM” range. (For ER pack) Read your current SOC and multiply by 3, and there’s your remaining range; subtract 10% if you’re driving over 60mph, or add 10% if you’re driving under 60mph. Easy mental math, update range in your head as often as you like, more...

Heck yes, it gets so cold we have to wear jackets! (in the morning and evening, anyway)

I’m always curious (as an SR truck owner) about why 240mi range seems so only marginally adequate. Do you drive more than 240mi in a normal day? (that would be 62k miles/yr, driving the truck only on weekdays!) Perhaps some do, but most of us drive a fraction of that. Plugging in every night...

The new vapor-injection heat pumps (including the ‘24 Lightning) are effective even at sub-freezing temps, and should reduce the energy consumed for heating by about 30%. So, if energy used in heating the cabin is say, 30% of total energy consumed by everything while driving, then the heat pump...

Thanks for your reply! Yes, most people use “Lane Keeping” and “Lane Centering” interchangeably, when in reality they are two very different features employing different hardware on the truck. The former is the earlier technology (from about a decade ago), where the latter (newer tech)...

Every once in a while, I read a comment from you BlueCruisers that I don’t understand. I have an XLT 312, which includes Lane CENTERING (which comes when truck is equipped with Adaptive Cruise Control, and is a serious upgrade to “Lane Keeping”). Lane Centering, it seems to me, is kind of like...

In Lightning, if you don’t have Homelink, you also don’t have lighted mirrors. No ready power source for a mirror Homelink add. (and if I understand correctly, 2024 Lariats do not have Homelink either- only Platinum. Sad mistake.)