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There is one thing that I worry about more now that the Lightning is cancelled and thats long term service. Ive not done a deep dive but Ive casually looked for the factory service manual for the truck. Ive heard there might be a subscription model for access to it but I would feel a lot better...

Totally --I hadnt thought about the production line investment like you mentioned. With the EREV route, not only would they get to keep playing with the basic BEV tech, the plant wouldnt have to change as much either.

It was part of the homework. The post I was answering set the hypothetical 200kwh battery. I agree it will be a lot less. So much less so that they have to do something else with the cells their factory will be making.

Maybe more interesting with the announcement numbers... 700 miles Assumptions: 70mph (10hrs), 1.7mi/kwh, 200kwh batt. 200kwh * 1.7 mi/kwh -> 340mi. Need ER 360mi. 360mi / 1.7 mi/kwh -> 212kwh 212kwh / 10 hrs -> 21.2kw gen Still 20 something kw. The battery pack will be smaller than...

80mph for 5 hours so a 400 mile trip. 1.25miles / kwh efficiency with a 200kwh battery has us at 250 miles. We need 150 miles ER. 150 additional miles at the same efficiency would need 120kwh. To land at exactly 0% at the end of our trip means we have 5 hours to generate it -> 120kwh/5 hours...

Thinking about this for a day I can see how this could be a nice bridge, especially if its designed with modularity in mind (which Im sure it is). The electric motor technology stays...the inverter technology stays...the battery technology stays (if not reduced). Ford still gets to work on and...

Im not so upset at the idea of an EREV. I hope it becomes the stepping stone that everyone seems to need to get comfortable with BEV. --Im no different in that sense, I drove a Volt for 5 years before I fantasized about a lightning. I snatched my MY22 almost a year ago. I was thinking at the...

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I think that it is one of those things where having to pay attention to the GoM/Energy use as closely as we do is a bit of a new thing coming from an ICE. We've got a big bucket of energy and we can expend that energy getting from point A to B faster or slower, with heat/AC or not. It's more to...