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I have driven about 100k miles using lane centering/Blue Cruise. I have always been annoyed having to keep my hands on the steering wheel using lane centering but on my last trip to Colorado there was a huge change, I found the Lightning dead man switch! No, I didn’t find a hidden switch but I...

On my latest trip to Colorado my Lightning consistently charged at or above 180 kW. I was pleasantly surprised at first until the charge level dropped to about 30 kW at 80%. I was hitting some strong headwinds plus I was fighting an elevation rise so I really needed that extra juice. In the...

For a long time I have been curious about driving my Lightning in Mexico but the lack of fast chargers compatible with the Lightning made traveling in Mexico look impractical. When I got my CCS to NACS adapter I thought now I could charge at the Superchargers Mexico but Tesla has been slow to...

The Executive Order on the 21st January halted funding under the 2021 Infrastructure Act and specifically targets NEVI funding. I was really looking forward to the sea change in charging infrastructure that NEVI was going to provide, now it looks like we are going to have to wait until the next...

Oncor is offering a rebate for installing a photovoltaic system, this is in addition to the federal tax credit. One of the requirements for the Oncor rebate is that you have to install a battery backup for the PV system. Since the Home Integration System that works with the Ford Chargestation...

Ford now allows you to pay for Bluecruise using FordPass Reward Points. So if you use your Ford Rewards VISA enough the cost of Bluecruise when you have to start paying for it will be free or at least greatly reduced. Ford Rewards VISA also gives 10 points for every dollar on Bluecruise...

Every time I hit a bump at low speed I feel little shake in the front end of my Lightning. I don’t get any shimmy or bouncing going down the highway so I don’t think it’s ball joints or something like that. I’m kind of thinking it’s just soft bushings but I don’t remember the front end shaking...

A new Tesla Supercharger in north Amarillo, TX has just been activated. There are twelve chargers all rated at 250 kW. Not a single one of those chargers is available to our Lightnings. As I mentioned in another thread, not a single one of many 250 kW Superchargers in Mexico is available to our...

One of the things I was looking forward to with getting Superchargers access was getting to use them in Mexico, particularly going from Laredo to Mazatlan. There are enough 250 kW Superchargers down there but the Tesla app doesn’t indicate that those Mexico Superchargers are available to...

I have mixed feelings about extending warranties. The dealers are betting they are going to make money on the warranty and the owners are betting they going to make money on the warranty. Somebody’s going to be wrong and it’s probably going to be the owner. I had a GMC that I had to have two...

In recent article on Insiders.com it was reported that historical 2.5% of battery packs had to be replaced every year but only 1% of newer batteries had to replaced every year. I didn’t find this information very useful so I decided to project those numbers to life expectancy. Life expectancy...

Us Ford EV owners have been so obsessed with gaining access to Superchargers I think we have lost sight of all the new DCFC chargers getting installed. Have you looked at PlugShare lately? The number of DCFC chargers under construction or under permit right now is just phenomenal! The NEVI...

Do you feel the excitement? A small thing happened but this small thing will have a huge impact on EV adoption. This small thing that happened I have been saying should have happened ten years ago and because it didn’t happen EV progress has been constrained. What happened? Tesla opened up the...

The TXDOT website identifies 1st year awards for Texas NEVI locations, nine of the fifty locations identified list Tesla as the awardee. I am more than a little surprised that Tesla won the awards with all the resistance Tesla has had to NEVI requirements. It’s going to be interesting seeing how...

I saw this in an Insideevs.com article. The roads covered by Blue Cruise are pretty anemic compared to Super Cruise. So what's up with Blue Cruise, why doesn't Blue Cruise cover as many roads as Super Cruise and can we ever expect Blue Cruise to catch up? I knew Super Cruise covered more roads...

According to an Insideevs.com article the EPA numbers are out for the Silverado EV. The 4WT trim with the extended range battery has an impressive EPA range of 450 miles. With a suggested 300 kW charging rate the Silverado can add 100 miles of range in 10 minutes. But the Silverado EV pays a...

I recently read an article article about a Tesla that had over a million miles on it and the had replaced the high voltage battery about every 200k miles. If my battery lasts for 200k miles, the battery will probably outlive me but the question begs; what criteria do you use to decide when it’s...

I have been trying to tell people the Lightning is a forever vehicle. A good example of what I’m talking is this Tesla that was driven 1.2 million miles . If a Tesla Model S can do it there’s no reason to believe our Lightnings don’t have a million plus miles in them. The article says that the...

My gauges always indicate right in middle regardless of how far I've driven, how much and what speed I've charged or what the temperature outside is. The owner's manual really says nothing about these gauges other than they exist. Are these gauges just a placebo designed to make us think we...

With the lack of demand cited in the scaling back of Electric Vehicle (EV) production plans, it’s easy to postulate that the EV Revolution is being lost. The lack of demand I would postulate is the result of skyrocketing inflation and interest rates, not a lack of interest in EVs. These factors...