How are we holding up?

[FloridaMan655321]

I appreciate that you understand that some people's driving conditions, infrastructure, and tolerance for adding over an hour to a six hour trip are different than yours. Planning is fine. Planning to miss events because you have to make out-of-the-way charging stops at unreliable stations is not okay. That was my life. I once spent 3 hours with my 75 year old mother-in-law trying to charge at the only two stations on I-10 between my daughter's house and home. Finally sold the truck when it said I had 10% charge 10 miles from home, then died 3 miles from home. (Extended Range)

That said, the infrastructure is a little better than it was. I miss the truck in town. Open roads in Texas at 75 are not good for range. YMMV!

Yeah, I can see that will suck. I'm actually taking a trip soon to the upper midwest and I can see it will be challenging. Thankfully I won't be traveling too far off the beaten track. If I lived up where I'm going it would kind of suck and be limited. I'm actually surprised how well the Southeast in general is. I hear Mississippi sucks, but the Carolinas are quite pleasant.

I really think the Walmart EV network will help quite a bit over the next few years for some of these more rural areas.

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[djwildstar]

Did it blast you on the side of the head? I'm not saying if you have video I will laugh....but I probably will

That might be funny (and probably dangerous, if it triggered while I was driving).

Nothing like that; just a trouble code in a Ford app message and an icon on the dashboard. It's a bit frustrating, because my Ford dealer has generally been unable to find or fix the problem: they've checked and replaced the wiring harness, updated the BCM (which gave me walk-away lock before the OTA), and run various tests, but it throws the code about once a month or so.

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

Two years (as of 12 April), 32,000 miles.
Minor issue of the shifter not enjoying the heat so I replaced it with a dial shifter.

100% State of Health.

Somewhere around 20,000-25,000 miles of road trips in the Lightning. Probably around 100 DCFC sessions (I haven’t bothered to separate the hundreds of DCFC sessions between the Mustang Mach-E and the Lightning). Every month or so I drive a 1200 mile round trip between northern Arizona an Pasadena, CA. We do 3000+ mile trips in the Lightning once or twice a year.

Happy with the truck.

 

[3rdgenfan]

Quick stats for my '23 XLT:
Picked up around 12/30/2022 with 36 miles
Currently at 49,515 (probably would be at close to 70k if I was still at my old job)
Home charge limit set to 90% with DCFC limited to the 1-2 road trips per year.
SOH per Car Scanner is showing 99.5%

 

[Drayday55]

I have 101,000 miles on my 22 131kw Charge to 90% almost every day. State of health is 94% when the gauge cluster shows 100% state of charge. So 6% loss over 100k miles.

This matches with what the dealer told me my SOH is.

 

[Shmoe]

I’m sure my frequent DCFC sessions have a penalty

Degradation from dcfc is extremely overstated... cycle count overall matters much more.

 

[Shmoe]

You’re right. I never had range anxiety in the 2 years that I drove mine. Just range disappointment. I tried, but you just can’t do the trips I do with a Lightning, even if you want to add the time it would take, if there were a functioning charger within 30 miles of my routes. Now I can refill in 5 minutes and be on my way anywhere.

Range anxiety is something that afflicts non-ev owners at this point.

 

[Pioneer74]

22 Lariat. Picked up 10/6/22. I daily charge to 85% in summer and 90% in winter.

 

[AZT9]

Degradation from dcfc is extremely overstated... cycle count overall matters much more.

I have to agree. Just ticked over 105k with 95% SOH. Great BMS and thermal management on these trucks!

 

[Drayday55]

22 Lariat. Picked up 10/6/22. I daily charge to 85% in summer and 90% in winter.

I think our trucks were in the same order batch if I recall. I got mine November 1 22

I did fast charge mine quite a few times but im not disappointed with the degradation. Ill probably keep this thing well into 2030. It just does everything so well for me.

 

[Pioneer74]

I think our trucks were in the same order batch if I recall. I got mine November 1 22

I did fast charge mine quite a few times but im not disappointed with the degradation. Ill probably keep this thing well into 2030. It just does everything so well for me.

Yeah. Those were the days. I remember us all with early orders checking in with each other because our trucks were affected by the "batch and hold" process for extra quality checks. Took mine over a month from it's build date to ship.

 

[21st Century Truck]

I love my truck. Mileage = just over 110 thousand miles. Many long road trips, towing, in all seasons and all across North America. Very few problems, none serious.

This truck might well be a 10+-year vehicle for me... maybe longer. I see no reason to sell or trade... not even if / when the theoretically possible solid-state traction batteries finally enter the market.

My Mach-E did two things very well. The Lightning does about 15 things well to extremely well. It's strong, quiet, powerful, sure-footed in almost every situation, ridiculously economical, comfortable in every seat, easily packable to a rare degree, reliable like a truck ought to be, fun to drive every single day, with 120V receptacles for pretty much every need. Did I remember to mention torque?

I am so lucky that I found it sitting new on the lot when i traded the pretty good Mach E.

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