I just found out about this today.
IMO its a wacky choice to do this AND not give the owner to click a button to override it.
I have a small LiON battery pack the size of a shoe box that outputs 1.5 KW, and I can use this in my closed frunk zero issues
LIghtning loses very little charge while parked... the phantom drain is near 0. I have never left mine two weeks, but I have left it at the airport for 5 days and noticed 0 power loss.
You may want to throw a 12v jump pack in the dash, and bring you rkey fob (which has the physical key) just in...
I really hope they do it like that because the walk away lock on our Honda is annoying because I don't want it active when parked safely in my garage... we go out to load up the car and its locked and I need to go back in to get the key... annoying.
I only want walk away lock active when it is...
I think you're missing the fact that there are three modes
- Accessory mode
- "Full accessory mode"
- Drive mode
No one is debating the first. It is the second one that is a pointless mode. "Rolling up and down the windows" is something that many cars allow in the first mode, if Ford disables...
Agree... this feels like a holdover from ICE that makes absolutely zero sense. I doubt this exists on a Tesla or Rivian. Accessory mode makes some sense, "Full Accessory Mode" does not.
Works great for me.
I still have plan to figure out a lowpass filter for the garbage truck beep while retaining the pedestrian sound. I want the pedestrian sound for safety, I just HATE the garbage truck beep and it is completely unneeded and wakes up my family.
Right now I have detached the...
This is exactly what I thought was the case... which leaves me to question why Ford would ever even include this mode at all. It serves zero purpose except to put wear on your battery, and create a potential for it to strand you. It is not like an ICE car where the battery will charge "for free"...
I am trying to sort out in the Lightning (and perhaps Ford EVs in general) what "Full Accessory Mode" actually is.
In an ICE vehicle, when you turn on Full Accessory Mode, the car runs everything except the engine including all the HVAC, windows, etc. It is different from the basic "Accessory...
What gives is, the heat here is not waste heat from the engine, it is all coming from a heating element that should be able to be much more directly controlled.
LO when you have heat enabled means that it's just using vents... it's bringing in the outside air. Which in my case in winter is way below 32F. I don't want that. I want 45-50.
Thank you for all the tips and tricks on clothing and heat - I am just trying to find out about the ability to alter this setting on FORScan. I can not find anything in the control modules for this but I am far from an expert.
Unless your sleep in the foyer of your home it's not really an issue.
The people who fall victim to these attacks are the folks who walk in the door and throw their keys on a table right next to it, or have their key rack right next to the door. Just don't do those stupid things.
Keep your...
Is it possible to change the MIN and MAX temps the HVAC makes available? For reasons unknown Ford made a bizarre decision to arbitrarily limit them... you can only lower the temp to 60 degrees F/15.5 degrees C... if you set it lower, it just totally disables the heat and says "LOW".
60...
I am also very interested in this. I want to disable it on the side mirrors. I don't care so much about the rear view but the dimming of the side mirrors creates a major safety issue for me because I can hardly see anything... I cant even believe it is a thing.
Is there something I can maybe...
Except... it isn't. The former will wear the cells more.
Unless it's in a garage.
As I said... take the rules of thumb on lithium chemistry I said and apply them as needed instead of using carbon-clone advice not applicable to the nuances of everyone's situation.