Search results

Tesla Universal Wall Connector would be my choice for a truck with 48A onboard charging.

Unfortunately, that is false. How and why it's false has been extensively discussed in other threads here. The Gen1 Tesla HPWC puts out a dirty pilot signal that the F150's onboard chargers reject. Despite multiple reports of the problem, and even detailed diagnosis by members of this forum...

Having a little experience with having things made in China, hard to say who licensed (or copied) whom or which might be unauthorized excess production of what. Also there's the question of how much quality control you're paying for. All that said, I have owned the A2Z, the TT, the old Quick...

I had a very expensive TeslaTap fail from water infiltration, just like the QC corded adapters and the cheap Chinese Hansshow adapters. I also was not impressed at all by the way TeslaTap actively marketed their 80A adapter for other vehicles with 80A onboard chargers, then turned around and...

If the Tesla home charger (High Power Wall Connector) is old enough (1st generation) it won't charge our trucks at all. Not many of those left out there though.

The lane change animation is there on my 2024 Mach E but not (not yet?) on my 2022 Lariat. The rest of the UI is, after the batch of updates I received in the fall, identical, and I do have auto lane change. I wonder if another BC update is coming. Lane keeping is quite good on both vehicles...

I don't find it hard to get the rated range when driving with all-season tires, at 64MPH or less, in nice weather. But I also don't often choose to...

Post 36 is wrong. Post 24 explains why. If you modify the plug, or an adapter, to make it physically connect to your other EV, it may work or it may not, depending whether the vehicle you're trying to charge implements the required signaling - which is not needed in cars that have only Level 2...

A 48A charger delivers only 11kW. I coach skiing in the winter and with reduced range due to cold, snow, terrain etc. plus the distance to some of the places where we compete, having to have 11 hours at home on the charger to fill up the 131kWh battery from near-empty on a Friday or Saturday...

No. Ford did something wrong - they chained themselves by the ankles to a dying software platform (QNX) and jumped into the deep end. The WiFi hardware in our trucks is capable of running multiple networks at once. But the WiFi software stack in QNX is not. CarPlay (and Android Auto) in...

Maybe you don't need an 80A charger the way you use your truck. If I were stuck with 48A home charging I'd be DC charging twice for most trips in the winter instead of once - no thanks. Ford did nobody any favors by removing 80A charging capability from the ER trucks.

To be fair, with the Lightning, it has been known to work, for values of "work" closely approximating "not work".

This might actually be one case where @Ford Motor Company asking for your dealer and VIN could be of great help.

They should refund you the cost of the 80A charger and any increased installation costs for the requisite 100A circuit vs. the 60A circuit that would have been required for 48A charging.

Uh. "No pins are left exposed" because of that little flip up and down flap for the CCS DC pins that will have 240V on them when AC charging?

I don't see any inherent reason it can't be safe. But if it is safe, it will be very, very heavy. I would trust A2Z to not cut corners here, but watch out when the fly by night Amazon vendors with names like SOBUBDY get into the mix.

Indeed I had to replace a post-mounted 30A receptacle used for charging at my folks' house after a 5-year-old jammed a garden fork between the receptacle and Tesla Mobile Connector plug "to see what would happen". This adapter puts 240V on pins you could totally touch accidentally, no garden...

Oh, dear God. Some fly by night string of random letters Amazon bottom feeder made one. You're right, I didn't know. Do not buy this. It shorts together the DC and AC charge pins inside the adapter. It is fundamentally unsafe. Tesla cars can safely use the same pins for DC and AC charging...

That is not a thing, "a joint CCS/j1772 to NACS adaptor". NACS uses the same pins for AC and DC charging, which means passive adapters (the only kind made) have to be for AC or DC - not both .

It probably doesn't get as cold where I live as where you do but it gets down below -10F at night for a good chunk of each winter, and we get a few very substantial storms every year. My Lightning sits outside our house halfway up a ski mountain every night just like my old gas F150 did, and on...