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Us Ford EV owners have been so obsessed with gaining access to Superchargers I think we have lost sight of all the new DCFC chargers getting installed. Have you looked at PlugShare lately? The number of DCFC chargers under construction or under permit right now is just phenomenal! The NEVI...

Do you feel the excitement? A small thing happened but this small thing will have a huge impact on EV adoption. This small thing that happened I have been saying should have happened ten years ago and because it didn’t happen EV progress has been constrained. What happened? Tesla opened up the...

The TXDOT website identifies 1st year awards for Texas NEVI locations, nine of the fifty locations identified list Tesla as the awardee. I am more than a little surprised that Tesla won the awards with all the resistance Tesla has had to NEVI requirements. It’s going to be interesting seeing how...

I saw this in an Insideevs.com article. The roads covered by Blue Cruise are pretty anemic compared to Super Cruise. So what's up with Blue Cruise, why doesn't Blue Cruise cover as many roads as Super Cruise and can we ever expect Blue Cruise to catch up? I knew Super Cruise covered more roads...

According to an Insideevs.com article the EPA numbers are out for the Silverado EV. The 4WT trim with the extended range battery has an impressive EPA range of 450 miles. With a suggested 300 kW charging rate the Silverado can add 100 miles of range in 10 minutes. But the Silverado EV pays a...

I recently read an article article about a Tesla that had over a million miles on it and the had replaced the high voltage battery about every 200k miles. If my battery lasts for 200k miles, the battery will probably outlive me but the question begs; what criteria do you use to decide when it’s...

I have been trying to tell people the Lightning is a forever vehicle. A good example of what I’m talking is this Tesla that was driven 1.2 million miles . If a Tesla Model S can do it there’s no reason to believe our Lightnings don’t have a million plus miles in them. The article says that the...

My gauges always indicate right in middle regardless of how far I've driven, how much and what speed I've charged or what the temperature outside is. The owner's manual really says nothing about these gauges other than they exist. Are these gauges just a placebo designed to make us think we...

With the lack of demand cited in the scaling back of Electric Vehicle (EV) production plans, it’s easy to postulate that the EV Revolution is being lost. The lack of demand I would postulate is the result of skyrocketing inflation and interest rates, not a lack of interest in EVs. These factors...

Both the A2Z and Lectron websites indicate that the adapters can be purchased now and will ship in January or maybe even in December. The A2Z adapter is selling for $201 and I've seen the Lectron adapter selling for as little as $179. I have no information on when or how Tesla will open the...

I just read an article on Insiderevs.com that said Ford was losing $36,000 per Lightning and was scaling back on EV investment. Most of the posts on that article were gloom and doom and all about how Ford was losing the EV game. The fact is that the game is only just beginning and revolves...

Talking to another EV owner at charging stop about using the Lightning for backup power I heard something shocking (pun intended). This fellow EVer said that he had been powering his house with a generator through the dryer plug during power outages. This is probably a violation of the National...

This last weekend I was rotating my tires per the 10k miles maintenance schedule. As I normally do when I rotate tires, I inspected for nails. I have had a slow leak for a couple of months now, so I did expect to find nails but I was really surprised to find six nails stuck in my tires. All of...

LDPLIP is a Texas state incentive program for EV purchases and leases. The details aren’t posted yet but in past Texas handed out $2,500 rebates for eligible EVs. I hope they allow rebates for all EV deliveries in 2023 since I took delivery in February.

There are many events in Texas. I have signed up to show my Truck at Tanger Outlets in Fort Worth on October 1st and I’m thinking about signing up for a couple of other events that week. I hope you decide to show your truck, the F150 Lightnings are always very popular at these events.

I'm trying to purchase a real manual for my Lightning. I don't want any of those cheap auto parts store service manuals like the ones from Haynes or Chilton. I'm currently looking at manuals on two different websites; Helms and www.factory-manuals.com. The Helms manual goes for $306 and the...

So in all of Texas there is just one Supercharger location with Magic Docks, what’s up with that? I was able to get 122 kW with 20% SOC, which is not bad but it’s still far less than the 170 kW I can get on some EA chargers. I wonder if 120 kW is going to be the norm for charging the F150L using...

A2Z EV Shop is advertising a NACS to CCS1 adapter for $307. I’m not sure what use it will be since Tesla still hasn’t opened up their network to non-Tesla users. Maybe one of our intrepid members will buy and try to use it.

I used this website to buy a service manual for my last EV, Ford F-150 Repair Manuals (factory-manuals.com) . The website has the unique feature of being able to tailor a service manual based on the VIN. So, even though the Lightning is not specifically listed on the website, the website...

Page 274 of the 2023 F150 Lightning Owners Manual explains how to use Remote Parking (if equipped). The manual says to open FordPass and "navigate to remote park adjust to access the system" but I can't find remote park adjust in my FordPass app. I don't even know if my 2023 Lariat with an ER...