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Do it! We did a few years ago and plan on going back. The glaciers are disappearing quickly. Your path would take you right past Yellowstone as well. And Zion and Bryce. It's a fantastic trip. Well worth the effort.

I'd just buy an off-the-shelf solution. https://www.ampernext.com/products/first-30kw-dc-dc-solar-ev-charger/

One of my after-retirement projects will be to build a ~100 kWh camping trailer. It won’t have a motor on the trailer since I don’t trust my programming skills enough to make that safe no matter what goes wrong. But it will have a DCFC on it so I can dump that charge into the truck when I need...

I’m about a week away from doing the dial upgrade, but if the column shifter is ever made readily available and affordable, I’ll serious consider it.

We use it for stuff that we don’t want in the cab and also don’t want exposed to the weather.

Some 83% or more of all driving occurs during the day... An even split of fatal accidents between day and night means night driving is quite a bit more dangerous.

The BC 1.4 notes are useless. Almost nobody disables lane keep assist. Most just leave it on so it comes on whenever cruise control is on. The big button is on/off toggle. The brake pauses cruise control. The re-engage buttons re-engage if the on/off toggle is still active. You can...

That’s about right. The HvLeak Resistance is the key here. Leakage of a couple of volts isn’t a huge issue. In general, BEV manufacturers have different thresholds, but somewhere around 500 Ohms per HV battery volt rating is the right minimum resistance. On our batteries of ~400 volts, that...

And how do we get in on that kind of deal?

Pre-collision assist does not activate until speeds are above 3 mph. It doesn’t automatically apply the brakes unless it detects an imminent collision. The OP’s situation was likely such that there was no data indicating an imminent collision in time to stop the collision. The vehicle can fail...

The assumption that the battery will need to be replaced first is faulty. The battery will outlast the rest of the vehicle. As a whole home backup, that 143 kWh is worth about $100k if you compare it with a brand-T powerwall, and that's including the inverter hardware you would have to...

Because there's no accuracy indicated with the number gleaned through the OBD-II report and Ford hasn't published any information about it, I don't trust the SoH value beyond about ± 5 points. The value reported via OBD-II is also way too precise. Based on the information available to us, my...

As of 27 August: SoH: 98.5 Mileage: ~22,000 Battery age: ~23 months DCFC count: >> 100 SoC at home: 95% I haven't run my regular <10% - 100% charge cycle in the past six months.

I return home from road trips with 5% or less regularly. My regular charge times are when I have excess solar, so it’s usually not going to charge until the next morning. There have been times when I needed to charge up before another trip the next day. I just tell the truck to start...

I did a trip from Northern, AZ to Houston and back in March 2023 with our Mustang Mach-E (312 EPA range). I stopped in Denton to charge to 85% and then stopped in Huntsville to charge to 80%. Had plenty of charge to do some roaming around Houston for a week.

Energy required to move your vehicle at speeds above about 35-40 mph goes with speed cubed. You can save significant energy by dropping speed just a few mph from 80 to, say 75 or 72. A 10% reduction in speed can lead to an almost 30% improvement in efficiency. I wouldn’t hesitate to do 240...

My so-far successful plan has been to invest the cost of any extended anything into my retirement account instead of paying for the extended service plan/warranty/GAP insurance/scam-of-the-day. So far, after 30-ish years of not wasting money on these kinds of expenses, I’ve made enough “extra"...

Considering the active hostility of many Ford dealers toward EVs, the numbers are surprisingly good.

First, Edison is in Canada and is talking about Canadian regulations. Second, Edison is not telling the whole story. There are plenty of on-highway certified diesel-electric series hybrids in Canada in the form of public buses. They just aren’t the cheap solution that Edison wants. So Edison...

Exactly. Payload isn’t impacted significantly by adding the max tow package. Mostly because most of the extra weight of the equipment added to the truck is biased toward the front axle rather than the rear axle (and it’s not a lot of weight). If the rear axle carried an extra 100 pounds of...