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We would hope that, but I don't know that Ford gains any advantage; they would, if they would benchmark and then try to beat the competition, but they had a chance to produce a better overall system than Tesla, and didn't bother.

You know, it's funny...we occasionally get a Ford rep (engineer?) in these forums, and I've seen Dog Mode promised before. It can't be that hard, but why they won't do it is beyond me.

I drive in Maine, and for local driving (the kind you describe), I can count on using my solar panels for charging, but it's not direct. If I had your setup, it probably would be. I don't currently have a battery backup, but from late April to early October each year, the panels cover all the...

He didn't say he totally regrets it...he said he totally would have done things differently. He had a good point. I was surprised to hear that they tore down a Tesla after the fact, and found that the wiring harness was shorter and lighter. It used to be that you did things like that BEFORE you...

I do have to say that this forum is actually very helpful; there are a lot of very knowledgeable and helpful drivers here. They have made my experience a lot better. I never got any help from the Tesla "community" when I had my model 3. But to be fair, most of the Model 3 problems I had were...

I love it for long trips on the highway (where you can get it most of the time), but I don't understand why it doesn't cover more areas. I live in a pretty remote village in Maine, so I'm an hour away from any road where I can use it. Once my subscription runs out, I will just get it for a month...

I kind of wish they would not just say, "Minor Bug Fixes." What minor bugs? What will be different?

Interesting...I went to the Ottocast site. It asked for my make, model, and year, and then returned a screen saying my vehicle is not in their database. Have you used Ottocast before in your Lightning?

Yes, I had both the weekend and weekday options set to the same hours, and they had been working well for months. My app let me set both; it wasn't a choice that I had to keep resetting.

Friday night, I plugged my truck into my home charger as usual. I have set it up to charge during evening off-peak hours, and this has worked perfectly for almost a year. Saturday I looked at the app and a "Charging Stopped" alert was on it, and it had not charged. I thought it was a fluke, so I...

Sounds reasonable.

After reading all the replies here, I can see that it is probably a good thing to do periodically. Anyone have a link to instructions for this? I mostly drive regular paved roads, but in the winter they are often covered with salt and sand, and I think it's probably not great to let that build...

So, in the note they included in details after the latest update was installed, it said that we now had access to streaming services. When I looked at the Entertainment menu, though, I didn't see any changes. Has anyone else seen/tried this? I Ford is listening - maybe add a "how to" to the...

That was a nice feature in Teslas...you could create a trip in Google Maps and send it to your Tesla. It was flawed, though, because it only let you use the default route that Google found first. Any changes you made in maps weren't transmitted. It's handy, but to today...if you are using...

Thanks. That's about what I thought.

I think you have to put some of the blame on DC. The new administration has proven willing to do anything to squash anything that goes against big oil and coal, and has worked furiously to label climate change as a "woke hoax." I'm sure that besides cancelling any incentives, they have done what...

Yeah...unfortunately, Ford is apparently thinking of getting rid of the Lightning altogether. If that happens, watch for support, new features, etc. to fade away.

OK, I'll bite...what makes these better tires for EVs?

I like the idea of a solar array. I asked a guy at Tesla service once about that idea, and he told me that I'd have to tow an array on a trailer just to get enough juice to keep the battery level steady while parked. I don't know enough about capacity etc. to challenge his assessment, but it...

I only have experience with my '24, but I haven't had any of those (slow heat, noise or vibration), and I drove it all through a Maine winter. It worked fine.