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2023 ER Larat, bought new in May 2023. I charge to 90% every night, and to 100% before road trips, I take about 4000 miles of road trips (and fast charging) a year. Overall, 50,000 miles, battery 99% state of health. Lifetime efficiency has been 2.3 mi/kWh. Recalls aside, the only issue has...

This is exactly happens with mine. Do you have any idea what setting Ford/Delta changed on the inverter? I have the installer password and installer app for the HIS, so in theory I should be able to make necessary changes. Failing that, who do I talk to at Ford to get them to look into the issue?

I assume the actual formula is ABRP proprietary information. You can read more at ABRP: Reference Consumption

ABRP's reference consumption is specifically at 65 MPH. I'm guessing that you're not holding at exactly 65 during your drive. So ABRP takes the actual consumption, actual speed data, and actual elevation change, then plugs it into its formula to estimate what you would be using if you were...

I also have a '23 ER Lariat (and also about 50,000 miles on it), and had these same symptoms late last year. Starting in October, the truck would randomly fail to charge overnight. It isn't normally a problem, because I can do two or three commutes back-to-back without charging, but it was...

If the charger doesn't show up for you in the Tesla app, then you can't use that charger. Always check before driving to a charger. The best way to check compatibility of Tesla chargers is to put your truck into the Tesla app and indicate that you have a charging adapter. The app will show you...

Ford has not significantly changed the 12V battery management. In general, the lifespan of 12V batteries in EVs is about the same as in gas cars, roughly 3-6 years, mainly depending on your climate: the hotter it is, the quicker 12V AGM batteries will die. Unlike gas cars, most EVs have...

Sync 1 and 2 were based on Microsoft Auto OS, and contained a lot of Microsoft code. Ford's exclusivity agreement with Microsoft expired in 2008. Ford re-developed Sync using BlackBerry (QNX) software starting with Sync 3. The Sync 4/4A software in the Lightning is Microsoft-free. Having...

I am not an AI, and I do not copy and paste AI output -- I'm somewhat offended that you think it was. That post was 100% written by me, and based on my personal experience and informed by the experiences of others in the community. I'm trying to provide you with actionable advice that will...

These are both symptoms of a 12V battery that is low on charge. It is likely that the software updates depleted your 12V to the point where the truck is powering-down systems to conserve power. The fix is to charge up the 12V battery, and see if these go back to "normal". Approaches for charging...

Correct. Here's where things start to go south. First off, 625.5 requires that any such extension cable be UL-listed. This is important, because listed means a finished product that has been tested to comply with one or more relevant UL standards. For example, UL-2252 is the standard that is...

With the overall caveat that extension cables like this are not permitted under the fire/electrical safety code, I had a similar situation at a hotel in Florida -- the cable on the EV charger was not long enough to reach my charge port regardless of how I parked in the adjacent space. You can...

Yes. The EREV pickups are likley to be less-efficient than a BEV truck when driving on battery power, and less-efficient than a gas pickup for gas-powered miles. The back-of-the-envelope numbers for the RAM EREV suggest 30% lower electric efficency than a Lightning, and 20% lower gas mileage...

<voice="car-salesman">Ya see, it's got the zero-to-sixty and all the instant torque of an electric, but ya never have ta stop and charge it, right, and it runs great on regular gas!</voice> The target audience is dealerships.

Yes, same here -- this is what I've been saying about EREVs for a while now. By my math, it gets about 1.6 mi/kWh on electric power, and roughly 20 MPG on gasoline. So not only is this a re-branded hybrid, it is a hybrid that manages to be less-efficient than vehicles currently on the market...

Color me interested. I drive a 2023 ER Lariat, and installed AMP PowerSteps less than a month after buying the truck. My wife has arthritis and Ehlers-Danlos -- the steps help immensely with her ability to get in and out of the truck. I have four big uses for the bed: The Lightning is our...

Here are my suspicions: If you have departure times scheduled, heating the cabin could easily use this much power in a month. IIRC, a departure time can easily use 2% of the battery to warm the cabin. So a 16% drop in SoC could represent about 8 scheduled departures. While I believe there is an...

I've had mostly-positive reactions. I enjoy when I'm using the frunk and make people do a double-take. Some of my favorites: A woman walks by as I'm loading groceries into the frunk at the store. As she goes past, she mutters "I never knew pickup trucks had a trunk in the front ..." Checking...

The two systems operate rather differently. Ford's system uses the truck's CCS DC pins for power export only. In a power failure scenario, the Home Integration System's interconnect isolates the home from the power company feed automatically. The interconnect, inverter, and charge station pro...

The parking space for my Lightning is about 50 feet from my panel (and HIS), and I originally had it installed on a 100A circuit to support 19.2kW charging. So that install was $1250. The HIS install (including moving circuits to a critical loads panel) was just under $3000.