Newish 24 lightning owner travel charging experience

[SunMar10]

I have found Apple Maps to be very useful. I actually select “different vehicle” as opposed to F150 Lightning. Apple Maps displays total mileage on the GOM. Using my kWH multiplier, it seems almost foolproof. Apple Maps is WAAAAYYYY to conservative in my opinion but the different vehicle setting still allows me to see pertinent info and get an accurate calculation. My cross Virginia /Tennessee trip was a piece of cake using this method.

I have 2023 F150 Lightning XLT.

I haven’t figured out how to get Apple Maps to show anything related to EV when I have Car Play turned on. The various websites with “instructions” and “how-to walkthrough” seem to be out of date wrt Apple iOS and Lighting updated UI.

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[TaxmanHog]

I have 2023 F150 Lightning XLT.

I haven’t figured out how to get Apple Maps to show anything related to EV when I have Car Play turned on. The various websites with “instructions” and “how-to walkthrough” seem to be out of date wrt Apple iOS and Lighting updated UI.

What is your most recent software update?

 

[Ragman]

We’ve found charging to be highly variable and not always logical - Tesla so far is a consistent start at 150 then ramp down to 115 then to 50 at 90 then lower to 100 (never waited that long).

Ford branded 120 kw, consistently 110+. Petro/Shell/Coop “100 to 250 kw” best case 70kw usually 40-50kw.

One thing would like to see added to charge app screens is “what truck is asking for” - we have 50kw chargers from Flo that shows on screen - truck never asks for more then 42kw while I see Kias and others pull the 50kw.

Warm or cold battery, state of charge, etc are all factors. I have experienced where charging at 40-50 for 10 minutes, then reconnecting jumps to 70+ kw on same charger - which I suspect is a battery temperature rising to allow higher.

Whether truck should be smart enough to ramp up and not only ramp down I’d expect but haven’t really seen in practise.

 

[SunMar10]

What is your most recent software update?

iOS 18.1
Ford 10.1.0

 

[TaxmanHog]

iOS 18.1
Ford 10.1.0

You have the proper levels of software that should be making this function, maybe an Apple expert can comment.

 

[Kaiserkal]

FYI the manual you get with the Tesla adapter clearly stated that the only charging stations that will work will be ones with the black collar, not the silver ones.

Though, I was also under the impression that all v4 would work. Possible that it was a new charger. Was there anyone else there charging at the v4?

Ive also had very poor charging on the road. Given up charging on the go for the most part, will charge to 100% in the future for road trips less than 210 round trip. Longer trips for gas cars now. One EA charger was filled with cars all charging to 100%, I literally only needed a 10% charge, so maybe 8 minutes. Bunch of jerks at the stalls man. All of them were local too...

 

[solastobann]

FYI the manual you get with the Tesla adapter clearly stated that the only charging stations that will work will be ones with the black collar, not the silver ones.

Though, I was also under the impression that all v4 would work. Possible that it was a new charger. Was there anyone else there charging at the v4?

Ive also had very poor charging on the road. Given up charging on the go for the most part, will charge to 100% in the future for road trips less than 210 round trip. Longer trips for gas cars now. One EA charger was filled with cars all charging to 100%, I literally only needed a 10% charge, so maybe 8 minutes. Bunch of jerks at the stalls man. All of them were local too...

I have charged at the same four superchargers three times. The hardest part at first was trying to figure out what the number was as it’s not on the cabinet. It is on the steel post next to it. Certainly no problem whatsoever with an A3Z adapter. The charging cable is about twice as long as the older models and some of the chargers are sideways so you can come up on them with a bigger vehicle or pulling a trailer.

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