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This is a consequence of higher amperage continuous charging. This is the electrical equivalent of leaving an electric oven on “broil” for hours with the oven door open. Wires are going to get hot. You definitely want to unwrap the cable if you are going to charge at that amperage...

None of this looks like a good idea to me. 1HP grinders are fairly inexpensive and a lot cheaper than replacing the inverter on your truck. If you want to experiment - which I do not recommend - then use something else for your power supply.

In case anyone is curious about how far you can push it in real life at freeway speeds, on one trip I had to make a large detour through the boonies because I-5 was closed due to an accident. I had charged to 83% in Woodburn and arrived 159 miles later at Lacey with 12% (27 miles of range...

As promised the details from my death-defying trip to Bellingham (and back!). I‘m (sniff) not in the cool kids ER club, I have a Standard Range Lariat, which has one of the smallest ranges available in a new EV. The trip was from sea level to sea level with some rather big hills in between...

I wonder if you were looking at the wrong number. Ford recommends that you charge to 80% unless you are about to go on a long trip. You might have been looking at the 80 next to the gauge, which represents the battery percent and not the range. The range is in the middle of the circle...

What did your “testing” consist of? With a full charge my SR will go 160 miles to about 20% at freeway speeds. It shows around 200 miles of range at a full charge. The ER goes quite a bit further. I don’t think that a fully charged Lightning will ever show a range of 80 miles, even with...

How are you getting two hours of charging on a four hour trip? Do you actually own an EV or are you guessing? You are talking about 240 miles or so in reality with traffic, and I can do that in my EV6 with no stops. In real life it takes about 31 minutes to charge my SR from 27% to 80% -...

The feature that would get me to pay extra is 350kW charging. Now that everybody has Tesla access (I know, they don’t have 350kW yet) that is what makes the difference. With the potential for fast charging and Tesla access my EV6 doesn’t feel any different to road trip than an ICE vehicle...

It is almost the other way around. With current prices the manufacturing cost difference between the two batteries is probably insignificant, they just want a differentiator so that the price insensitive (fat cat) consumers have a reason to pay more for the top trim. This is how the game...

Just to put the numbers in perspective - The average two car household drives 60 miles per day (about 22,000 miles per year). Even a very inefficient truck like my Lightning achieves a yearly average of over 2 mi/kWh. So assuming 22,000 miles per year and 2 mi/kWh, you are using 11,000 kWh to...

I’m sorry. The only advice I have is that it is a lot cheaper to turn the truck into the bank than have it repossessed, and that any truck payments you make now are house/grocery payments in the future. Get it taken care of while you still have income, you will be treated a lot better.

I don’t know of anything particularly wrong with an OBDII dongle although you need one that uses a secure connection. It is quite easy to plug it into the port by your left knee. However where I live ABRP is almost past its usefulness. The ability to use Tesla chargers changes everything, I...

I have had pickups for most of my driving life and there really isn’t anything that my Lightning can’t do compared to my ICE trucks - other than the lack of an 8’ bed (come on, Ford!). I got an SR because for my use it means hauling stuff *in the bed* with very occasional trailering to do the...

Well that is one way to get the engineers to clean their offices.

I have the 9854 and it does deal with the bonding issues if everything is installed properly. It can take a bit of work, my gas furnace was tripping the GFCI because the neutral wire was shorted to the frame (poor installation technique) which is something that I am glad that I got fixed...

As far as climate control goes - you can set a departure time and the cabin will be at the temperature that you select when you are ready to go. This saves some battery energy and means that the cabin is nice and comfortable when you leave. I believe you can even have the seat...

On my Lariat SR, on at ’idle’ with no load attached to the inverters (this is important) I used .31 kW with Pro Power off and .44 kW with all outlets on. That is .13 kWh if you leave all of the inverters on for one hour, or slightly over 1/3 of a mile loss in range if you leave the inverters...

A very good discussion here, the only thing that I want to add is that breakers do not prevent fires (at least not in the way that many people assume). If you have undersized wiring or a poor connection, a 40A breaker will happily let 40A of current flow through the wires no matter how hot the...

Just for some real life info: I left a town near Bellingham with 94% range and drove I-5 to Vancouver, WA in temperatures ranging from 72 to 83 degrees. One stop at a Tesla station for 21 minutes to get to 82% ( 38.4kW ). with a visit to the nearby REI for a quick talk about bicycles...