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I'm not talking about regen, aggressive driving, using friction brakes, or driving faster. I'm making a simple point. Accelerating quickly has little impact on REAL WORLD driving efficiency. There's a misconception that rapid acceleration in an EV has significant affect on efficiency. This is...

I'm not talking about regen, aggressive driving, using friction brakes, or driving faster. I'm making a simple point. Accelerating quickly has little impact on REAL WORLD driving efficiency. There's a misconception that rapid acceleration in an EV has significant affect on efficiency. This is...

You "proved" your point by demonstrating a faster vehicle is less efficient. Accelerating at 1g for 1km puts you at like 300mph. Not useful information. Do the math to a reasonable speed instead of a distance and report back your findings. To be clear, we are all in agreement speed kills...

I was talking specifically about acceleration in the real world. If more energy is required to accelerate quickly to the same speed, where does the extra energy go. I suppose there could be a little friction loss if you break traction and maybe a tiny amount of heat loss but these aren't...

OTA 10.3.0 removed charging locations and wouldn't allow me to add any back. Three days later it fixed itself.

1. Union workers assemble vehicles. They don't have anything to do with design or logistics and their part in quality control is exactly what management says it is. 2. I'm a proud union worker who would not be able to afford a fancy new truck with what my employer would be willing to pay me...

As I've been reading through your tale I've been asking myself this question as well. Thankfully, I'm not in a situation where I need to replace my Lightning but if I were I don't know what I'd do. It would be real hard to go to less than 580hp. A Rapter R would be a nice upgrade but that sweet...

The truth about the matrix headlights is dumber than you could imagine. The following is based on my memory and will be light on specifics. If you want more details you can Google it. US headlight rules have ALWAYS been behind. Until the 70s the only options were two sizes of round headlights...

My truck makes a muffled pop when the frunk latch releases. If I've overstuffed the frunk it makes a significantly louder pop. I can imagine a scenario where the hood adjustment pins are a little too high and add pressure to the latch, causing a louder pop.

@kdxkid, see above. Ford's quality control is awful and their customer service sucks. I am an all Ford household because I think their products are compelling but the truck is they built relatively unreliable vehicles and if you need to deal with Ford custom service there's a pretty high chance...

Payload is a human construct designed by the truck industrial complex to manipulate us into buying bigger and more expensive trucks.😆

Took my truck to the dealership this morning. I showed them this post but they couldn't find SSM 53208 and pretty much ignored it.🙄 If anyone is familiar with this SSM, it's replacement, or a TSB that addresses this issue I'd be interested. As it stands the dealership is bringing my truck back...

My wife's car has power running boards and I totally agree with your assessment. That is the one option I wish my Platinum had. Unfortunately, they weren't available in 2022.

I don't have a use for a second truck. I don't have the space for it or anyone who would drive it. What I do have a use for is massaging seats. Different strokes.😁

If you like higher trimmed vehicles, this is the way to go. Let someone else pay for the depreciation. Signed, Platinum owned who paid for the depreciation.

Small point of clarification...in an EV there is little to no loss of efficiency when accelerating quickly. The reasons a gas vehicle are inefficient while accelerating quickly - low gearing, non-optimal RPM, rich fuel/air mixture, etc - don't apply to an EV.

While it is interesting there are different definitions of "build date", it's not really relevant. Ford knows what vehicles are affected and alerts owners directly via USPS and FordPass. That said, I have a truck with an apparent bad battery module that is in the first date window of affected...

The neighbor is also potentially putting utility workers in harms way. If he does things out of order and forgets to open the main breaker or closes it with power still hooked up it could back-flow into the grid.

I don't recall and I'm not in a position to check right now. It was definitely a dealer mannequin. The dealership for which I had a deposit called me on January 5, 2022 to configure my truck. It was more money than I was willing to spend at the time. My financial situation became more clear and...