Public Charging App Broken??!!

[RickLightning]

Again, you are incorrect, in multiple ways.

If you got access to the vehicle in FordPass, all those charging networks are part of BlueOval Network, so you didn't need other apps. Or a physical credit card.

Pilot / Flying J GM chargers too, and they work on EVgo network...

Yes, if you use someone else's vehicle, you don't have PaaK unless they allow you to set it up, so you need a fob.

As for charging, again to use the owner's credit card and access to the BlueOval Charge Network, via FordPass, they must give you access to FordPass AND share charging access. To think you can gain that type of access without the owner's permission is silly. In fact, the section of FordPass is called Access & Permissions.

Assuming you don't want to go through that, you of course need each network's app and have to set them up. Tesla has no credit card readers. Many others do.

Given your intolerance to these issues, probably good you didn't keep your Lightning. FYI, your trip trailering is going to have a 50% range cut. I guess either you shouldn't post your fun with that, or we can just ignore the thread.

Ford deleting the app on the vehicle is beside the point. I don't know why they did it, but even if they gave notice it is doubtful the current owner who never used it would have remembered.

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[Firn]

Again, you are incorrect, in multiple ways.

If you got access to the vehicle in FordPass, all those charging networks are part of BlueOval Network, so you didn't need other apps. Or a physical credit card.

Pilot / Flying J GM chargers too, and they work on EVgo network...

Yes, if you use someone else's vehicle, you don't have PaaK unless they allow you to set it up, so you need a fob.

As for charging, again to use the owner's credit card and access to the BlueOval Charge Network, via FordPass, they must give you access to FordPass AND share charging access. To think you can gain that type of access without the owner's permission is silly. In fact, the section of FordPass is called Access & Permissions.

Assuming you don't want to go through that, you of course need each network's app and have to set them up. Tesla has no credit card readers. Many others do.

Given your intolerance to these issues, probably good you didn't keep your Lightning. FYI, your trip trailering is going to have a 50% range cut. I guess either you shouldn't post your fun with that, or we can just ignore the thread.

Ford deleting the app on the vehicle is beside the point. I don't know why they did it, but even if they gave notice it is doubtful the current owner who never used it would have remembered.

Or maybe he just wanted to pay for it himself and not make the owner pay...

And seriously, no need to be so rude, the demeaning tone isnt necissary

 

[RickLightning]

If he wanted to pay for it himself (which he never said during his tirade), then there would be no need (nor benefit) to using the owner's FordPass account, or the Public Charging app (which uses the owner's FordPass account).

Since he used F*** and FordpASS and "retarded", I don't consider my telling him that his understanding on many points is incorrect as rude. He was an owner of a Lightning for since 2022, and a member of the forum for over 3 years. Clearly he didn't have a great experience with his Lightning, as his historical posts show, and so he's got an axe to grind.

Had he come into the forum and said "my goal is to drive my friend's truck from X to Y, pay for the charging myself, how do I best do that" instead of a tirade... Then again, I did give him the complete answer as to how he would do that, with all the individual apps.

 

[HOTAS]

Did your friend give you the adaptor for Tesla (supercharger) DC fast charging ? If so, why don’t you add the truck to YOUR Tesla app account and be on your way. Your comment about missing your Tesla leads me to believe you have one.
No fuss at all. Kinda retarded not to.
I never look for, or use, 3rd party DC fast charging, because it‘s generally inferior to the ease, convenience and absolute reliability of Tesla Superchargers.

And if you owned a Lightning since its launch, you should be well aware of the considerations when it comes to towing and distance traveling. Why the rant ?

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