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We drove less than a mile at <20 mph with the trees standing up like this. I usually lay them down just like you recommend.

Ford explicitly recommends against adding a secondary 12V battery or even adding 12V upfits to trims above XLT on the Lightning. Adding a larger 12V battery is likely to do no good for many reasons, not the least of which is the Battery Management System (BMS) programming that allows the vehicle...

We bought this product for our Mustang two winters ago and couldn't be happier. I just ordered the Lightning-specific one as well. The nice thing about these is that they protect the hinge and clasp from ice and they don't rely on magnets or other heavy objects. It's stayed on the car in high...

Last night I went out to check my Lightning Lariat ER. I've measured substantial preconditioning on our Mustang Mach-E in the past. When starting up, I noted that the Lightning's Charge Power Limit was at 147 kW, which indicated it didn't need to be preconditioned. I went ahead and ran the test...

For the first time since November, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is returning usable data about the health and status of its onboard engineering systems. The next step is to enable the spacecraft to begin returning science data again. The probe and its twin, Voyager 2, are the only spacecraft to...

Charging to 100% at a high rate can be problematic, which is why the vehicle derates the charge power (DC or AC) above 80-85%. It doesn't want to try to push more energy into the battery than the battery can take (causing it to overheat, among other issues). But this is taken care of by the...

I may get exactly that as an interim option.

My partner is enthusiastic about driving an EV. She has the Mustang and I have the Lightning. No dead-dino-juice vehicles any more (well, no street vehicles--we have tractors that still use the stuff).

I bought this cheap 45 lb model from Amazon for one job back in 2017, thinking that even if it would die on me, it was cheaper than a single day's rental. It's still going...

I buy my leather work gloves by the dozen and go through them very quickly; not sure I could afford gloves with touchscreen compatibility. And my gloves are rarely clean enough for me to feel comfortable touching the screen. I'll be getting a screen protector soon, but still... Also, I wouldn't...

We have 650 miles on the truck, just over a week after we got it. Going to love driving this on camping trips!

This weekend, we did a bunch of ranch work. We're planting trees and the elk really enjoy eating fresh leaves, so I had to put in some fencing. The Lightning provided a full day's worth of power for my demolition hammer to drive the fence posts. (Ignore that first T-post in this video; it hit a...

We got our 2023 Carbonized Gray Lariat delivered to us on 12 April 2024. The dealer sent one of their rookie salespeople up the mountain from the Phoenix valley to drop off the Lightning and pick up our Tacoma. With the 2022 Mustang CA Rte-1, we are now an all-EV household. That is if you don't...

Putting in some trees. First fencing off the areas. Using the power outlet to run my demo hammer with a driving bit to drive the t-posts.

I'm curious if anyone has played with enabling the Upfitter Camper Mode configuration in the BCM (726-87-02)? I wonder if it's a way to turn on some kind of continuous power mode for running a camper (in-bed or trailer)? I cannot find any documentation online. It's not mentioned in the upfitter...

Howdy! We got our '23 Carbonized Grey Lariat ER a week ago. We're coming from a Tacoma and also have a 2022 Mustang Mach-E with 36,000 fantastic road tripping miles. We traded the Taco and so are now happily all electric and never looking back. (Well, I do have a tractor and some other utility...

We're finally getting some warm weather! I think/hope our last freeze is this week. We got down to freezing last night, but just barely.

As I said above, the truck gained about 2% SoC, according to its report both on the screen and in Ford Pass. Nominally, 2% of 131 kWh =~ 2.6 kWh. ChargePoint delivered 4.7 kWh of energy, according to the ChargePoint app (and this agrees with the simple math of 27 minutes at 10.5 kW = 4.7 kWh...

The truck was getting the full 11 kW. It spent a fair amount of that warming up the battery instead of charging. It still gained the right amount of miles given the current efficiency numbers.

Knowing and experience the size of the ER battery are two different things! I had put the Mustang on the (ChargePoint 48A actual, 60A circuit) charger last night because I like DW's car to be at the SoC it should be at. I figured the Lightning was fine with 85%. This morning we decided to run...