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T3 has not been shelved, just delayed: Ford was originally suggesting that the T3 would debut in the second half of 2025, and it is now delayed until 2026. Either way, the T3 is a model-year-2026 vehicle: it is just a question of when it will arrive during the model year. I agree with the...

This is a post from almost a year ago, but here's what I believe my thought process was: Buy the EVSE that supports the vehicle you're driving now, because the industry is in a state of flux. By the time most people are ready to replace their current vehicle, standards and features will have...

There are locations with both Tesla has 5 different kinds of SuperChargers, confusingly named V1 through V4. Here's the scoop on them: V1 is the original (circa 2012) SuperCharger, capable of 100kW and now obsolete. As far as I can tell by looking at the available maps, there aren't any V1...

Same here -- I don't do a lot of towing, but I went for the Max Tow package because I figured that extra cooling hardware couldn't hurt for a truck that was going to be working in the Southern heat. I don't have hard data, but anecdotally I believe it has helped: I've only seen the...

Hi! Could you please check my VIN 1FTVW1EV0PWG14214 I haven't seen an update in a very long time, but recently got the low-voltage battery sensor (CSP-23B70) work done -- and still no updates. So I thought it would be worth checking out. Thanks!

Hi! I have driven my ER Lariat for over a year and 21,000 miles so far. Overall my wife and I love the truck. My driving is a mix of commuting, local errand-running, and so far 5 road trips in the 800-1200 mile range. My lifetime to-date efficiency is 2.3 mi/kWh. I wanted a pickup truck...

Yes. The CSP internal switch is set to 64A charging current, and the other charger is configured to 24A, for a total of 88A charging current (using 110A of our service capacity). This is as much as the electrician would allow. The software reduction to 80A is just for my comfort level. If it...

As a follow-up to my earlier report, my wife liked riding in the Lightning so much that she bough a Mach-E GT as her daily driver (which she adores above all other cars that either of us have ever owned). As I expected when the Charge Station Pro was installed, my service doesn't have much...

My wife loves riding in the Lightning so much that we bought her a Mach-E GTPE to replace her 2012 gas-powered Mustang when the factory cash and financing incentives hit in March. She adores her Mach-E above all other vehicles that either of us have ever owned.

It seems unlikely. DC fast chargers are presently limited to 500A in charging current, primarily due to the charge cable. While the Ford battery pack is nominally a 400V architecture, Ford's engineering is a bit conservative, and the battery pack is closer to 370V in practice. This means that...

Looking nationwide ("all distance from ...") for F-150 Lightnings on cars.com, I currently see 299 used vehicles and 5,345 new vehicles. Obviously, new vehicles cannot be lemon-law returns. That leaves the 299 used vehicles. Of these, I see that 253 have a "clean" title, leaving 26 lemon-law...

Good advice! I think that there are two things going on here: First, like practically all EVs, the Lightning uses an integration method ("coulomb counting") as the primary way to estimate state of charge. Basically, the truck's computers measure power into the battery during charging and...

The CNN reporting is ... lacking, at best. Here are links to some of the original sources: IIHS News: First Driving Automation Safeguard Ratings Released IIHS Vehicle Ratings: Partial Automation Safeguards Safeguards for Partial Driving Automation: Test Protocol and Rating Guidelines...

You (and C&D) are conflating two events. Tesla included the Magic Dock and credit-card readers in the v4 North American SuperCharger so that they could qualify for NEVI money. The legislation specifically requires that the chargers be CCS1 compatible and allow any driver to pay for charging...

Go with the ER Lariat; it's a nice truck!

I wouldn't trust their stated ship times. If I had to guess, as of right now: Their backlog seems to be 2 months or more, so if you order today, I'd expect that you would get the adapter sometime in May. This is still better than Ford (if you reserve today, you're looking at August delivery)...

It sucks that you had problems with the Mach-E, but contragurations on the new Lightning! Specific to your questions: Automatic updates and software should be practically identical between the Lightning and the Mach-E. In general, both vehicles use the same collection of modules, same battery...

Call Ford; there’s a number on the CSP instruction booklet if I remember correctly. They had to transfer me a couple of times, but I wound up with the EV support team. They checked with the IT team and a couple of days later informed me they were going to fedex a replacement to me. It arrived...

It may yet incentivize carmakers to make less-expensive "family car" EVs, but it was clearly designed to inflict as much pain as possible until then. It typically takes a carmaker about 3 years to bring a new model to market, and supply chains are typically worked out years in advance. So if...

Dramatic much? ;-) Seriously though, I find it interesting: In 2022, excitement about EVs was high, spurred in part by high gas prices (which make EVs seem more-economical) and low interest rates (which make higher-priced EVs more affordable). In 2023, the excitement faded as gas prices...