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Newton replied to the thread Location of Garage Door Opener?.Ford found out that they could get away with selling Platinums without the multicontour seats or any other toys during the ‘chip... -
Newton replied to the thread Location of Garage Door Opener?.FWIW - My 2023 Lariat SR has homelink in the visor but my Kia EV6 did not - so I installed the Kia compatible homelink mirror that you...
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Newton replied to the thread What gives 17 years from now?.AI is complete nonsense and will probably lead to the death of our civilization if not our species. It has no real knoweldge, just a...
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Newton replied to the thread Red ring issue.Does it turn on climate control when you remote start the truck? It seems a little trite but one possibility is that something is...
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Newton replied to the thread Stuff I wished that I had known BEFORE I bought.I don’t see how the batteries would know the difference between generator and grid charging. If needed you could put a transfer...
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Newton replied to the thread Weird Charging Issue -- Possibly after module replacement.You need to get an OBDII dongle and Car Scanner Pro to really drive yourself mad. There are two states of charge that the BMS has -...
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Newton replied to the thread Service Vehicle Soon Error After ECG2-25.2.8.5 Update {broke again}.At this point I would suspect that something is going on in the charge port. Look in there with a flashlight in case it is something...
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Newton replied to the thread Someone upgraded a SR to an ER..Everybody knows that the only proper material to build battery lifts from is drywall. Half inch plywood only handles 30 pounds per...
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Newton replied to the thread Accountants: How did my Lightning cost $200,000 to build?.Ford is a financial holding company with a boutique car building business that is useful to extort state and local government subsidies...
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Newton replied to the thread Ford & SK On end joint US battery venture BlueOval SK.Um, not defending any authoritarian govenment here but that last post was pretty much 180 degrees from reality. The vast majority of...
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Newton replied to the thread Maybe scrapping the Lightning is a good thing.I guess I just have a different experience than others. I had a Subaru outback for awhile, and 30mpg on the freeway would be really...
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Newton replied to the thread Maybe scrapping the Lightning is a good thing.Meanwhile the Skagit River hit its all time record flood level last week, fortunately one city around here that believes in climate...
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Newton replied to the thread Maybe scrapping the Lightning is a good thing.I disagree, and I take long trips (on and off the interstates) in a standard range. It was fine before we had Tesla access and now it...
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Newton reacted to On the Road with Ralph's post in the thread Maybe scrapping the Lightning is a good thing with
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I simply will never understand people who are reluctant to take their Lightnings on road trips. They are roomy, comfortable, quiet, and... -
Newton replied to the thread EREV - A Horsepower Math Problem?.I agree that if you want any kind of decent performance the battery has to be available, but I'm not sure that is what happens. If we...
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Newton replied to the thread EREV - A Horsepower Math Problem?.In the end, I think that the EREV is a psychological (and political) solution rather than an engineering one. I have met people in...
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Newton replied to the thread EREV - A Horsepower Math Problem?.Plenty of pure battery EVs get more than 350 miles of range, including the Silverado (492) and the Lucid (512). It won't be too long...
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Newton replied to the thread POLL: trade your frunk for a generator?.Life with an EREV might not be what we are imagining it to be. This is a review of Ford's new EREV Bronco in China ($32K with a 750...
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Newton posted the thread What can we tell about Ford's EREV plans from... Ford's EREV? in Lightning vs..Interestingly enough, Ford recently announced a new EV - the Ford Bronco New Energy. It is unfortunately only available in China and...
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Newton replied to the thread Important Update: Ford EV Roadmap & Future of F-150 Lightning (EREV Next Gen Model) - ⛔️ ADMIN WARNING: NO POLITICS.Also, don't tell me that this is just like a Diesel Electric locomotive. They don't have batteries, at least until recently. Diesel...
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Newton replied to the thread Important Update: Ford EV Roadmap & Future of F-150 Lightning (EREV Next Gen Model) - ⛔️ ADMIN WARNING: NO POLITICS.These are good questions. In my opinion, It cannot possibly have a meaningful frunk if it still looks like an F-150 with a 5.5' bed...
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Newton reacted to Literider150's post in the thread Important Update: Ford EV Roadmap & Future of F-150 Lightning (EREV Next Gen Model) - ⛔️ ADMIN WARNING: NO POLITICS with Like.
To be fair, I don't think there were many of the American dealerships who were ready for this transition to electric. We leased a 2022...
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Newton replied to the thread POLL: trade your frunk for a generator?.Or perhaps that range isn't the issue when the MSRP is north of $80,000. I don't think that adding a motor to a truck that already has...
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Newton replied to the thread POLL: trade your frunk for a generator?.The Frunk is a pretty important part of the experience of the Lightning because it gives you more weather-tight space to store things...
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Newton replied to the thread POLL: trade your frunk for a generator?.This is a problem with the EREV solution, there will always be more stuff in this solution than with a BEV or ICE. There is no free...
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Newton replied to the thread EREV - A Horsepower Math Problem?.Aha, I think I see where the confusion (or at least my confusion) comes from. Automakers/journalists have invented a new way to rate...
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Newton replied to the thread Important Update: Ford EV Roadmap & Future of F-150 Lightning (EREV Next Gen Model) - ⛔️ ADMIN WARNING: NO POLITICS.Well, which nation is the world's leading oil producer? Hint, it isn't in the Middle East. Getting off of oil is is becoming a...
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Newton replied to the thread Who would be stupid enough to buy after ford cancelin the lightning.It is not that big of a deal, I tend to keep my cars forever (the ones that I like). My T-100 has been an orphan for 30 years and my...
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Newton replied to the thread EREV - A Horsepower Math Problem?.Here it is with the doors open. The blue cylinder is the important part, a very large and heavy alternator. For scale, look at the...
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Newton replied to the thread EREV - A Horsepower Math Problem?.There is no way that it is a 130kW generator. This is what a 100kW generator looks like (and it costs $100,000)
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Reading this thread makes it feel like 2010 all over again. :facepalm::crackup:
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Newton replied to the thread EREV is not as bad as you think..There is a reason that trains and ferries are Diesel-electric, gasoline engines are not the best for that application. I doubt that...
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Newton replied to the thread Will You be upgrading to the Lightning EREV?.By the way - a word to the wise. If you like the truck and have the money and they have screaming deals, I'd get a spare. We had a...
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Newton replied to the thread Will You be upgrading to the Lightning EREV?.No. I can easily drive from the Canadian border to California with my Standard Range Lightning, which has far more range than needed...
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Newton replied to the thread Share Your Pipeline to F-150 Lightning. G'on. It's Thanksgiving....We live on the side of a mountain so our first EVs are glorified golf carts with dump beds on the back (Yamaha U-Max). They are so...
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Newton replied to the thread Charging Overnight: Rivian Dealership Learns the Hard Way.Gasoline fires are easier to put out because there really isn’t anything left of the car after the gas tank explodes. I passed a VW...
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Newton replied to the thread Interesting Article On Current Guardrails Vs EVs.This FUD has been around for awhile. My Audi Q5 was 4200 pounds. The heaviest Lightning is 5500 pounds, which is equivalent to the...
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Newton replied to the thread Farley says Ford is behind in EV (vs. Tesla and China) so Ford can't afford to "walk away from EVs.".You don’t know what you are talking about. Signed… Washingtonian who drives from Canada to Calfornia on the backroads in a *Standard...
