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Got a shipping notice for mine a week ago, and it arrived today. Order # 35271. Sadly my truck is in its fourth week at the dealer with a bad battery and I'm wondering if I'll ever even get to try it. :(

Low degradation is all well and good, but what about catastrophic failure rates? And averages are great for fleets, but if you're an individual you don't own a fleet. You can't amortize failure costs out across dozens of vehicles. If you draw the short straw, your battery failure means a...

My personal experience is the EA stations are the ones you look for. First of all they work with BlueOval plug-and-charge, which has been 1000% rock-solid in my experience. Plus they have a higher ceiling. Yeah you might only get a fraction of the rated charging rate. But if you go to the...

Having to sign into the app a second time or move over one stall should be considered success though. Have you never had to re-swipe your card at a gas station? And everything gets flakier once you involve some stupid app designed to track you first and provide the service you want second. I had...

I'm not sure we're actually disagreeing. My assertion is that for the statistic to be that bad you have to apply qualifiers like "on the first try" or "at maximum speed". I think that the level of urgency is a lot different if you fail to get home because you can't charge at all one in five...

I do plenty, thanks. I don't consider getting slower charging a "failure" though. Also, in a year and dozens of sessions I've never seen a charging rate that low. I saw 45kW once. In Auburn MA, actually. And it was stupidly hot out. Even if you do consider a slower charge to be a failure, I'd...

Seems to me like there's some incentive to take some charging stations offline so they start to qualify.

Supposedly it's for repairs to broken or outdated chargers. Though I'm not sure why the taxpayers should be picking up the maintenance costs for private equipment. The part that kills me is this: " Some of the “temporarily unavailable” chargers might just be old: About 20% were installed before...

Piling on here a bit, but when there's conflicting info in a thread it can't hurt to have multiple confirmations. You DO NOT need an ElectrifyAmerica account to use EA charging stations through the FordPass/Blue Oval network. I do not have an EA account, and have repeatedly successfully...

I generally feel the Amex app buzzing about the charge while I’m still putting the cord back.

You’re giving it too much credit. Lie-O-Meter or Don’t-call-support-o-meter is more like it.

Since there's any question at all, it's really not worth it. The cord is the vast majority of the cost of the charger. An 80A capable extension will cost you many hundreds of dollars. At which point you may as well just get another charging station for a little bit more.

The same way people found anything else without a smart phone should work just fine. There is no technical reason for EVs to have complicated interfaces. They are way less complicated than ICE vehicles. Most of that stuff is to make expensive EVs more upmarket so they can justify charging the...

I disagree with the last bit there. Having to sign up and pay through a particular network harms convenience. It adds friction if you want to stop at a different network than your usual, and a lack of point of use payment options adds friction for new entrants in the market. These things are...

Considering how simple and preexisting the annual inspection solution is, there are only three possible explanations for PAYING a company for electronic mileage data collection: legislative incompetence, graft, or they're collecting something valuable beyond your mileage data. Unless they're...

Many people assume the others are a certain way. Just because somebody doesn't think the way you do doesn't mean they're not capable of being rational and thinking critically. People are individual people, not a caricature of the worst of us. I am absolutely not saying that it doesn't pay to...

This is nonsense. Sure, maybe it's true for some people, but the narrative that the people who don't want an EV are scared, worried, and dumb is bogus. Most people who don't want an EV understand exactly what it means to have one, and the things that make them undesirable are completely...

Do you think using an adapter voids your battery and motor warranty? Why would making the adapter mount into the fender in an attractive and convenient fashion be any different?

When you pull into a gas station you can pull up to the pump from either direction, so it doesn't matter what side the filler is on. When you park on the street it's usually not legal to face the wrong way. Ford could easily win the argument and turn an extra profit in the process... sell a...

This is why things like Tesla pushing out a fix to the brakes within 24 hours after a bug being discovered drives me nuts. People's lives are at stake! This was exactly my point above. It's not necessarily about whether the updates are free or paid. The fact that the updates are possible...