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Good point about the HVBJB. Our 2021 SR Select (cheapest model) recently had its box replaced under warranty to fix that known problem, and a neighbor had his Premium's box replaced before any problems occurred with it. So if you can find one of the older cars which has had a new HVBJB...

Lots of good EVSEs out there. I've been using an EmporÍa (now 'Classic') for years with minimal trouble* and a Fisker branded Wallbox (closeout deal) for a year or so with no trouble. Both plug into a NEMA 14-50, and I usually charge at 15-20A because there's no need to charge faster. If...

Thermodynamic efficiency over 40%? That's a pretty tall claim for an ICE. Not impossible, but everything including the phase of the Moon would have to line up just right. With the high compression (thus temperatures) emissions will probably be a concern. Maybe VW can help them pass emissions...

What will be for sale 10+ years from now? Will our society be living in 2036 or 1886 by then? I have no plan to move on from the Lightning anytime soon. BTW, @Rthol21: what new tires do you have that are causing such a range penalty?

Interesting, especially given that Ford has a history of overseas partnerships, for example the collaboration with Mazda a couple decades ago which produced some pretty good vehicles IMHO (I owned two Fordzdas, both of which did a good job for me; Ranger/Bxx00 trucks are still all over the...

First, they should spend several years making license plates...

Answer: FUD. Is this company a provider of charge, or just a sort of matchmaker between those who have charge and those who need it? If the latter, let's hope they treat providers better than certain ridesharing app companies do.

That email may have been well timed, being sent on the First of April... Seriously, though: I would expect that a device such as that would supply some extra charge for starting an ICE engine, and that's all it would be designed to do. It wouldn't be very much extra charge, as supercapacitors...

Sorry you've had so many problems. We had similar symptoms from our 2021 Mach-E recently, with the orange ring when attempting to charge, warnings to STOP SAFELY NOW (when parked in our garage), etc. After leaving the car for an hour or so, it came back to life, so I read the DTCs, printed...

I don't think the title of this thread is correct. Farley is not saying he regrets learning how to do things better; he's saying he (and the company) had to learn new ways of doing business, and learning is expensive. The alternative would be not to learn how to make EVs. This would lead to...

About solar and storage-to-grid: Some Sunrun salespeople came by my house a while ago and said they might be interested in having me join some sort of program where they installed a battery on my house, a battery which they would own and PG&E would control to deliver electricity at high rates...

Agreed that cost per mile is a good measure, but it would be even better if it were cost per (some measure of carrying capacity times miles). 5 seats instead of 2 and around a ton of hauling capacity instead of...OK not sure how much the Insight could carry...should be considered. After all...

In a shocking development (not), Highway 1 is once again closed due to rock slides. Let's hope the damage is minimal (stuff on the road, but the road still there) and we can get back out there soon...

Doesn't that mean it looks........cool?

Although I haven't yet done that trip in my Lightning yet (the road has been closed most of the time I've owned it), I have done so in a Mach-E many times. If you charge to 80% at the Morro Bay EA or Los Osos Supercharger, there should be no problem as long as the cliffs haven't slid into the...

When first testing my home backup power transfer switch, I accidentally left my AC mains powered Level 2 charging cable installed...and the PPOB tripped its breaker immediately upon power up. With the charging cable disconnected, PPOB has powered the house reliably without any trouble many...

There are threads such as the following: https://www.f150lightningforum.com/forum/threads/ohmmu-na-ion-do-not-buy.34022/ Some folks like 'em, others don't. I personally prefer to keep the AGM battery rather than spending a bunch on something more expensive and potentially troublesome to...

I recently replaced a 4½ year old, not swollen 12V AGM battery in our Mach-E with a new one...which came slightly swollen brand new. Folks on the forums seemed to say slight swelling isn't a sign of trouble. The new battery has been working fine for 3 months so far. As long as the thing passes...

My wife and I have been occasionally looking at the Acceleration, Deceleration, and Speed scores in her Mach-E and laughing at them. The algorithm seems to be less realistic and its results more random than the one in the Guess-o-Meter. Since our insurance company told us that they get our...

Some good points made. What's missing, though, is the effect of advertising, which is becoming more targeted, manipulative, and effective at controlling people's behavior every year. Companies and politicians do it, and we are exposed to it incessantly. These days, they're pulling us into the...