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That would be awesome, but I always read the specs as: “7.2 kW on the 240v 30amp outlet *plus* 2.4 kW from the various 120v outlets”. For a total of 9.6 kW, which therefore would not all be available in the 240v outlet. But I’m always ready to be pleasantly surprised, let’s go for it Ford!

Do you have two separate meters? One outgoing, that measures what your panels put in the grid; and one incoming that measures what you’re consuming? And is there a connection between the grid sides of both those meters? If so, congratulations, the electricity produced by your panels is consumed...

Factually incorrect. Electricity will always go the path of least resistance. Therefore, if you plug in your EV to charge at home on a sunny day and have solar panels, the electrical energy from said panels will charge your EV. Not because you’re the greenest person around, but simply because...

Yeah I used to have a bad Lego habit back in the day so I can empathize with these kids.

Exactly. Everyone agrees on the definition of HCOL, but everyone has a different idea of what defines HQOL. Certainly not necessarily identical, nor necessarily mutually exclusive. I live in one of the poorest/cheapest counties in the country, but woke up this morning to watching a buck chasing...

Yeah, so, how many miles to the gallon are these electric trucks getting anyway? And why is Ford trying to hide this info from us? /s

Yeah, same here. My local small town dealer guaranteed me I’ll only pay MSRP, and I think that’s fair. Gotta support your neighbors!

Push button probably would be a bigger plus if you had to make lots of stops, in and out of the truck, restart etc. I like the push button in my LEAF, would prefer one on the Pro, but considering I use it exactly twice a day, headed to work and back home, using a key isn’t really going to be an...

Dealers have until the end of today to give Ford a list of names of people that had put in a reservation and that the dealer would like for Ford to prioritize. Ford will then use this list as one of possibly many input factors in deciding who to email and invite to order. I’m sure reservation...

“Dealer prioritization will be an input to determine invitations to convert to an order” end direct quote. It would not make sense for prioritization to be an input for orders by people who are already prioritized. That would be counting the same thing twice. Language seems clear to me.

Replying to PDave: Thank you for your heartfelt post. I think what you’re missing is that government’s job is not automatically, and forever, limited to what you personally think it should be. Or what WSJ and Cato tell you it should be. Instead, with every new generation, and every election, we...

Agreed. I’ve learned a lot here, and not just about the Lightning. As long as everyone keeps it reasonably polite and at least somewhat on topic, I’m all for learning about different points of view, even if they’re miles away from my own.

Said guide states that prioritization will be “an” input, one of several different factors, for FORD -and not the dealer- to invite a reservation holder to place their order. As I said, nobody but Ford knows what all the factors are and how they’re weighed against each other. You may well be...

My post was in response to RalpL’s post early in this thread. He had asked about a dealer possibly prioritizing customers *without* a reservation. A no no according to the 12/8 memo, and not related to allocations.

I think those dates and prices are just place holders. We’ll just have to wait and see, hope for the best.

Spot on, let’s hope that’s how it’ll go down.

We simply don’t know, and neither do the dealers or anyone except Ford, how heavily the prioritization will be weighed vs other factors like reservation time stamp. Let’s just say they do the right thing, happy customers are important for them too. In the long run, more important than a quick...

Reply to RalpL: No, only people that had a reservation in by December 1st will be invited to order.

Congrats on making progress towards your Lightning!

And that’s straight from the Manchin/Sinema playbook. Always concerned and against, never saying what could work. As a matter of fact, the only reason the sunsets were added was because Manchin complained about the original $3T price tag and wanted it reduced to 1.5T. Time to put the sucker up...