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Need to get you guys some OBDII dongles and carscanner/phone app to grab the sensor/temp data. I've been trying to collect cold temp data but our temps really haven't dipped that significantly so far this year.

yes, and just adding on that it is because regenerative braking is not 100% efficient, there are heat and other losses (I think DC to AC conversion?) that mean that the less you use both friction and regenerative braking, the more efficient you will be. But also, the more people behind you...

Agreed with the first sentence. Whichever setting makes you use the friction brakes less is your most efficient mode.

It was fine. Edit: forgot to mention I drove past my first Cybertruck on this trip... and I really was not expecting to see one of those in my area for many more months so it caught me off guard.

Yes, correct. My drive this morning (20 miles over 30 minutes) brought the pack temp up from 30F to 37F. I'm not sure how much of that was the heater or driving. The effect is probably pretty variable so tough to rely on.

Here's the thing, I don't think the truck is reporting the state of charge as significantly different. My truck sat overnight again, started at 86% displayed SOC and HVB temp 55F, energy to empty 75.8 kWh. This morning SOC was 85.5%, HVB temp 30F, energy to empty 70.9 kWh. I don't think they...

Fair point... My post was already longer than I meant

The voltage of the pack will increase, so the capacity will increase. You have the same number of electrons, but they have more energy. This is only a net positive for you if you have an external source of energy for the heat, though. In your case, the weather changed, so the higher air temp...

Bit of a bump here but I wanted to expand on this point here with some actual data and the temps have been too warm... the "stored energy"/kWh is not the same when the temperature of the pack is lowered... temperature lowers the voltage of a battery, which directly reduces the amount of energy...

My truck doesn't have PaaK?

EVs can totally be used... It is just our trucks are not the ideal candidates because they have overall slow charging. (Slowish curve and large batteries) Lol still a few more hours north to get to Canada from Syracuse

They are not without their issues... But I won't ever go back to an ICEV.

I sort of wonder, how easy is it to disable the GPS location/cell services on the Lightning? Like if they steal it and drive it somewhere, can they disable the location services and still continue to drive it the the final location/chop shop (thinking if they just disable it at the chop shop...

I guess my key drawer needs to be turned into a faraday cage.

Not even necessarily 3rd party but it would be great just to be able to potentially upgrade to newer battery tech (10 years from now maybe we have actually had huge advances, would be funny if my SR could turn into a 500 mile range truck with battery improvements).

Right but that is an extra calculation and I think the majority of the general public honestly wouldn't know how to figure out even that basic arithmetic, or have the initiative to do it.

It is absolutely doable. You can do it with an OBDII reader and a phone app (like carscanner), but IMO it needs to be on the dashboard display. My wife's GV60 has it, where it will show a somewhat smoothed out "instant mi/kwh" reading. I also think that the guess o meter could be drastically...

I'd still love to do this but struggle with figuring out where to source seats (presumably from totaled cars) from around me.

I get that but I guess I was wondering if Ford pulled a legacy auto and had crappy software not doing a good job with the BMS and knowing exactly what charge it has, which then affects the GOM leading to wildly inaccurate range estimates. I'll say that this year I've noticed some oddities that...

Given the cost of the replacements, I don't think that is really all that wise of a purchase based on your post... if you have some other criteria you are looking at (such as the ioniq 5 being a better long range road trip vehicle as long as the cargo capacity is good enough) then maybe that...