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Don’t do that, you have not agreed to have the car totaled. You have the right to have your own adjuster involved. Which insurance company are you talking to? The causing party? That is an adversarial relationship, don’t do them any favors without something in return. If it is in...

It isn’t just about the cost of repairs, the problem is that the truck‘s value is diminished and you are owed that as well. It is much cheaper for them not to spend any real money fixing the truck and hope that they can out negotiate you on the equivalent value. They spend all day doing that...

I think that it is fair to report the actual range, because people make decisions based upon it. We can debate on how realistic their test is, but you can’t debate that the Lightning does not usually get the EPA range. In good conditions, I easily beat the EPA on my e-Golf and my Kia EV6...

This should be easy. Plugshare is the most useful for finding out if the charger that you are planning on using is operational and ensuring that a Tesla charger is compatible with Ford. Plan on around 150-160 miles between charges (I have an SR also). I am currently sitting around 300...

People do go to China occasionally, so you don’t have to rely on the government for all of your news. In fact, I’m not sure where your news comes from because the only EV credit that China now’s has is for trading in an EV for an ICE vehicle. They know that they have a glut of EV...

Remember that the dealers are the primary customers for Ford, and the dealers do not like EVs. On the one had there is no guaranteed income from oil changes and on the other when things go wrong it can take a lot of shop time to diagnose and fix (and warranty shop time is not reimbursed very...

I am more jealous of the charging speed (350kW) than the range. My typical stop on the Lightning is just a few minutes longer than I would prefer, on my EV6 it is more “what, are we done already?” That can be nice.

I feel a little uncomfortable leaving the truck on with the keys inside when I’m running backup power to my house. I’m running backup power from the rear outlet.

If you read the article you will discover that this team was designing a new “software defined“ platform for future products, i.e. to compete with Tesla and Kia. (Kia isn’t exactly loving their “software defined” ICCU but that is another story). It is not clear if anybody related to the...

Just curious, does it have a mode where you can turn regen completely off? The salesperson did not seem to think so (this was at the Rivian showroom in Burnaby) but I would think that in bad conditions it would be a requirement. This was a few years ago so a lot has probably changed. I saw...

I did not like the way that the Rivian drove, otherwise it was quite impressive. The regen was too aggressive for traffic and I was told that there was no way to modify it. For a small truck it did not seem all that nimble and on a hot day I hated the sunroof. I have read that there have...

The problem is that the SOC indicated by the truck is not accurate. I really wouldn’t trust it below 10% - people on the internet have reported running out in the 5% range or so. This is different than other EVs and might vary depending on the level of software that you have. Once it...

What are you talking about? I don’t understand why you think that 40A power stations would ”stress the grid”, unless the grid is a campground. Our houses used to be filled with 150 watt light bulbs and resistive electric heaters.

No. The only semi-acceptable way to do this is to get an adapter to convert the 14-50 male end on the Ford EVSE to work with a 40A outlet (no less!) and preferably tape it on so that it can’t be removed and used for something else. Changing the outlet to handle a connection over the wire...

With an old house I would definitely keep the amperage down, you will do fine with a 32A EVSE or less. Old breakers are old and the continuous load of an EVSE will be something that your house has not encountered before. The safest would be to hardwire a 20A/240V EVSE to the kitchen, you...

First off, the Lightning is a great truck and works pretty well as a pickup truck. I have been driving a truck for most of my life and the size of a truck is an issue. Trucks are big, and modern full sized trucks are really big (especially for the tiny beds that they have but that is another...

I have a wolfbox freezer/refrigerator in the frunk. It works well, I leave it plugged in all of the time which means that Pro Power asks me if I want to turn on the frunk outlets, so it is sort of a remote control refrigerator. (The wolf box is an actual refrigerator so it cools really...

DC fast charging is a different set of electronics. If this was a Kia I would say that your ICCU was fried, probably the onboard charger for Ford. Tripping the breaker is a bad sign - the dealership probably has a slow charger that you can try out. On the odd chance, look for water in the...

Is it possible that you had a bad cell connection both places? I had an issue at a Flo station that turned out to be that *someone* had put my phone into airplane mode. That just totally screwed things up, the app looked like it was working, the charger looked like it was trying but I got...

This seems a little hot to me, you are at 50C and NM-B is rated for 60C. It is probably cold where you are now so summer might get a little closer to being a problem. However 30kW is a lot of power. The EVSE is most likely reporting the temperature at the truck side, I don’t think that...