chl
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- First Name
- CHRIS
- Joined
- Dec 16, 2022
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- alexandria virginia
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- 2001 FORD RANGER, 2023 F-150 LIGHTNING
Until I took extreme measures to get my 12v battery over 85% I could not get an update.The A/B partition thing is great, when it works, and is actually pretty cool because I don't think the MachE had it at launch. They added this functionality with... an OTA. The problem is that it's not making things more reliable or address the core problem we're all having which is a complete lack of updates. I wonder if it's also part of the problem. If you partition a drive you now have less drive space on each partition, and maybe now they have to figure out how to get an OTA work with half the storage space. Now you can't do any broad sweeping update, you have to break it out to smaller incremental updates, and sometimes that gets really difficult. Further, the FoMoCo EVs are not controlled by a central computer like Teslas, they still distribute to several modules throughout the truck/car. Those modules likely can't all do A/B partitioning. All of this added complexity is likely adding a large chunk to the time it takes to plan and package updates. Reliability absolutely must trump complexity and cleverness.
I had to:
1) turn on the truck in drive ready mode at 10pm
2) turn off everything possible that uses any 12v power, e.g., lights, turn off propower onboard
3) plug the truck into the FCSP and set to charge after 1am from 50% to 90%
4) lock the truck and go to bed for over 10 hours until about 8:20am
5) at 8:20am, message on screen said the truck was ready to install a software update
6) so I reset the install time to 8:30am, unplugged the truck, turned it off, and locked it
At about 9:15 I checked the truck and the update had installed successfully.
The 12v battery SOC was clearly the issue with my Lightning.
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