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Clear the error with an OBD2 scanner to restore DC fast charging until you can get it serviced. You’ll get normal charging rates to 80%. The truck cautiously reduces charge rate more than normal above this to protect the out of family cell voltage. The error will return in a few days if you...

Will this 4 motor version head back to Pikes Peak? Ouch, that's an ugly strike against the Ford Software team and asterisk on the Lightning SuperTruck win I didn't hear about in '24.

Chat-GPT Assist. It got a lot wrong and needed a lot of QA help from me and still got some wrong. Its image comprehension is very poor and completely ignores image responses unless you prod it into using them. I like how flabrent did not contribute an energy usage, but he's in the table...

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You're the highest home energy user in the thread. Wow. You got almost twice the home charging at a third less my electricity cost. And your gas is about twice what it is here now, $2/gal. Before the solar power discount, I'm about 20% lower cost than gas. You have about 3x the difference...

What was your energy usage last year? I don't see an easy way to get a report on the truck's annual usage. But, if you have the charge station pro, you can see what you charged at home: Ford App --> Charging Tab --> Charge Station --> Insights --> Drop Down - Select Year --> Back arrow to 2025...

I have two sets of wheels and pressure sensors. (1) New rims with winter tires. Costco installed new pressure sensors for $175.56 (2) OEM rims with OEM pressure sensors. Costco installed new tires in the same OEM size and charged for $11.96 tire pressure service pack (metal nut, rubber...

I don’t think so. The external gauge agreed with OEM tire pressure sensors. The external gauge agrees with another vehicle’s TPMS reading. Then Costco installed a new set of sensors in a second wheel set that now reads +4psi high relative to the external gauge. There’s a vehicle configurable...

My dashboard reports tire pressures about +4psi over a trusted gauge reading. How do I calibrate the vehicle TPMS?

I use 40 psi for everyday paved road driving per the attached table (was on BF Goodrich site, archive link) for LT275 60 R20. At 40 psi, the max load is 2,110 lbs per tire supporting my Lariat ER's GVWR for 4 tires. It's a little higher than the OEM recommendation on the driver door:

My Lariat ER has a gross vehicle weight of 8,400 lbs. It came with load index 116 (2,756 lbs) speed rating T (118 mph) tires. They may not install lesser load index. I've had these tires, #2 and 3 purchased and installed by Costco: 1. OEM General Grabber HTS60 275 60 R20 116T. 34.3 lbs, 33"...

The Lightning ER 143 kWh battery would weigh 412.5 kg (907 lbs) and occupy 112.5 L (4 cu ft) with these cells, plus the thermal management system. On the down side, after 100 recharges spanning 2y and 30,000 miles, you'll have a 116 kWh battery with 250 mile highway range and no more buffer left.

That's only 172W and it's very cold outside. My electric blanket averages 80W on high. It's like two electric blankets.

$39.99 on sale. I picked it up as well. There was a campsite earlier this summer where a 25' extension didn't reach from the truck bed to the tent pad for heated blankets (also Costco!). 50' fixes that. The pigtail is little short. I picked up a couple of 6' 12 ga triple taps on Amazon for...

The worst part about Ford is the dealer experience. Why would they hold your truck for four business days and not even look at it? Sadly, I've shared that experience. @Ford Motor Company - please penalize dealers $100 every day they unnecessarily hold a vehicle for loss of use. This is a...

On the bright side, you'll get some free windshield washer fluid.

The dash should produce a warning that says "service vehicle soon." You can use an ODB2 scanner to clear the error. This will let you resume charging somewhat normally: full speed to DC 80% and AC to 92% or so. Above these, charging will slow more than a normal, healthy vehicle as the power...

There's a heavy sampling bias in this poll for sure. This population already bought a Lightning and it gets everywhere we need it to go. There's already acknowledgement some owners tow and other's don't (see the "max tow package"). Why not just have an "ultra-tow package" to add the...

$15M/mile of energy storage! At 60 mph, that's 1 minute of charging in that $15M mile. At 200 kW delivered, you'd get 3.33 kWh in that $15M mile. That's 7 miles of range at 2.1 miles/kWh delivered in 1 mile (1 min) of travel. Traveling the $206M 14 mile case-study corridor charges 98...

Here's a modeling paper from Purdue on the topic. The paper analyzed a 14 mile road segment near Los Angeles. Demand peaks at 28 MW during evening rush hour (Fig 8b). Figure 10a shows it needs 43 MW of solar, 114 MWh of storage, and a grid connection of 16 MW, estimated at $206M. I wonder...