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Ford recommends 90%. I personally charge to 85% based on 11+ years of research cycling cells. My wife's Kia EV6 only does 10% increments and I just bumped her up to 90% for the winter...I'll bump her back down to 80% as the weather turns warmer. Use this information as you wish.

It should be using shore power to maintain the temperature of the pack to the minimum levels, regardless if the FCSP is reporting it or not (and I've heard that it misses a lot of charging events). Please note that I know a lot about batteries and cells, but we just started looking at the...

The L-shaped plate is used on several vehicles including the Bolt and Mach-E. I fully expect it to be used on the Lightning, but since this is an Sk Innovations designed pack, it would be the first I have seen from them. The only pack from SK Innovations I have taken apart was the Kia Soul...

The Battery Management System (BMS) is going to protect your battery from permanent damage. It will use power from the battery to protect itself if necessary (the reason you should use shore power). If the SOC gets too low and you try to drive, it will limit your available power. Driving it...

This is still early in the basic research phase. I would not expect this to emerge to the applied research phase (what Southwest Research Institute does) for at least another year or two. Once there, you are looking at two to three years before it enters the valley of death (a phase where the...

NMC 532. 50% Nickle, 30% Maganese, and 20% Cobalt.

The cooling plate will not just be cooling the bottom of the cell. Think of an L-shaped metal plate where a small portion sits on the cold (or warming) plate while the large part will cover the entire side of a cell. I really wish I could post a picture of some of the other packs. For the...

The cold raises the resistance of the individual cells. Ohms Law comes into play with the relation of Voltage, Amps, and resistance. Something I once again observed tonight as I was monitoring a cold test (-20C) during discharge, the voltage was rising as the cell was discharging due to the...

Having torn down many battery packs including several Bolt packs, and watching the teardown of the F150 Lightning pack (I will be tearing one down in the next 6 months), I'm not sure why you think there are more layers in this pack from a Bolt pack. Maybe you missed the thermal transfer...

While Sony is credited with producing the 1st Li-ion battery, it was based on the work of Dr. Goodenough (who I believe just celebrated his 100th birthday recently). Dr. Judy is the only one whom I have run (and running) projects for. I have run tests to confirm several of Dahm's papers, and...

Two things about this article. First, Jeffery Dahm is a legendary researcher on the same level as Dr Goodenough and Judy Jeevarjan. Second, they really buried the breakthrough...it's not so much the NMC 532, but it's the cathode.

Add in a fourth type...those that wanted the toys included with the ER, like the moon roof and other 'options'. I could have easily made do with the SR for my driving habits but wanted the upgrade for other features.

Lots of good high-level (and kind of hidden/not talked about) information that I can use when I attack the Lightning pack in a couple of months, just ignore the 'evolution' between the Mach-E and Lightning packs.

I laughed every time they compared the 'evolution' between the Mach-E pack and the Lightning pack in the different videos...these were two completely different battery manufacturers. While I'm sure FoMoCo had design inputs, I doubt they drove evolution changes in the packs. As far as the 'edge...

I can't do this due to my job...I would have to save guard the PID for our research. However, I would charge at less than 48 A and see what OBC1 reports. If it is half of the current, then you know that it splits the current evenly between the two. Now look for another PID that matches the...

Most all the PIDs found on the Mach-E forum will work on the Lightning. The one item missing is the second OBC on extended-range trucks.

- FordServiceInfo.Com (motorcraftservice.com)

I carry this in my frunk...mainly to troll my Tesla friends, but always willing to help an EV owner out. It is the mobile charger that came with my truck with an adapter to the 240 V Pro Power and a J1772 to Tesla adaptor.

I'm not talking about RC batteries...I'm talking about the cells harvested from many of the electric vehicle batteries we have dismantled.

I would beg to disagree with the 'impossible' part of your statement...I regularly discharge cells to -4.2V (yes, negative voltage which is hard to do but we have a method to meet the standard) and more than 6 V while testing to the SAE J2464 standards. As long as the BMS is operating normally...