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Tesla Owner Calls Police on Rivian Driver Using Supercharger | PCMag The RIvian driver was also occupying two charger spaces ...

CATL launches new EV battery that will last 1 million miles, 15 yrs (electrek.co)

Removed the left (side of the vehicle) front frunk cover to check brake fluid levels and in twiddling around with the cover clips, decided to check out how the fasteners on the right front frunk cover were doing. I've only removed the right front frunk once or twice before. That was back in...

Interesting article in The Street on how Musk's edict that all new Teslas will come equipped with FSD (for $12,000 extra) has boosted Tesla stock. Tesla stock leaps as Elon Musk pushes key technology tied to profit boost - TheStreet In an "Oh, BTW ..." moment in the article, Musk is quoted as...

The following Ford announcement arrived Friday, 3/22/24, and got put in my JUNK mail folder. Only noticed it today. Probably was only sent to existing Home Integration System (Intelligent Backup Power) owners, like yours truly... A new way to manage Intelligent Backup Power is up ahead. A...

Article posted to mysantonio.com: Ford Blue Cruise features center of NTSB crash investigation (mysanantonio.com) A Mach-E under BlueCruise control slammed into a Honda CRV sitting motionless on a road with all its lights out. The driver of the CRV was killed. There are obviously a lot as...

NVIDIA offers an intriguing AI Assistant to use with their (expensive) RTX 30.. and RTX 40.. GPUs, which can be used for machine learning and AI. The product is Chat With RTX: Build a Custom LLM with Chat With RTX | NVIDIA, The requirements to use this product are pretty demanding: The...

NY TImes Business Section Article: How Ford’s F-150 Lightning, Once in Hot Demand, Lost Its Luster - The New York Times (nytimes.com) It's behind a paywall (maybe you get a free article?). But here are some "fair use" quotes. The guy loved the Lightning and said he'd like to buy one again...

The One-Year Check-In: Ford F-150 Lightning Lariat (motortrend.com)

Apropos of Lightnings, too, as the trucks get mentioned in the article. It's basically about legacy ICE manufacturers flubbing the dub on the way to an EV world and the FUD that's spreading as a result (FOX News loves it...): Thousands of Mustang Mach-Es Are Piling Up on Dealer Lots, and Ford...

Today, I retested backup power transfer by my Home Integration System, and for the 6th time in a row since 1/9/24, it worked. Power came on with 1'20" of cutting grid power. TLDR; the estimate of how long the truck can power your house must include some considerations not shown on the...

I have a problem with audio routing in Apple CarPlay in my Lightning Lariat ER. I picked a broad topic title so as not to restrict the topic to my particular problem since I think earbud wearers might suffer from the same problem, and perhaps the problem exists in Android Auto, too. I'm...

Interesting, fairly in-depth article in IEEE Spectrum on "flow" batteries that use replaceable charged nano particles. You pull up to a "gas" station, the spent fuel electrolyte is removed and replaced with fully-charged nano particle electrolyte. The article claims a much higher energy...

Sorry if this has been covered in another thread. In the past, back in May 2023, when I tried the rear camera view while driving at highway speed, it would turn off after a minute or two, so I thought it useless in highway driving situations. Last night, while highway driving at Interstate...

After trying to cure the FordPass CONNECTION LOST by powering down and rebooting my FCSP and HIS backup system, I have started to receive multiple alerts via the FordPass app of an "Outage Detected." The only problem is that there has been no power outage at the times around each of these...

Today when I went to load some stuff into my truck bed, I noticed a plastic strip at the back inside top edge of my tailgate is popping out at one attachment point (see picture below). I tried pushing the bulge back in with my hand, even stomping on it with my foot. No luck. Does anyone know...

I was driving home from Austin last night and was on the home stretch on a northeast section of Loop I-410 headed west. There was no one in front of me for a quarter of a mile or more and no one behind me (fortunately) for about the same distance. I was in one of the middle lanes of a highway...

Update: After my OP on 6/15, I discovered on 6/16 that the light that was remaining on relative to the frunk was the curved edges of the front lightbar on either side that illuminate the frunk (poorly) when open...

Promises, promises, promises .... Where's the beef?! Toyota claims solid-state EV battery tech breakthrough (electrek.co) Ten to eighty percent in under 20 minutes?!

Since I usually only drive on very short trips around town (< 10 to 15 miles roundtrip), I normally charge my truck to only 50%. The FordPass app has been very reliable in general about respecting that limit. But a couple of weeks ago, I accidentally charged my truck to 100%. In trying to...