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I'm kind of in the camp that this would not be needed for the vast majority of use cases. But intrigued by the possibilities. If I wanted to drive to Tuktoyaktuk, today, I would definitely need a generator. My current thought would be to charge while stopped, of course, since that's all these...

It would not close with the button on the frunk itself, on XLT at least. You would have to use the fob or the keypad instead. Obviously that's what you would want for *opening*, for security reasons, but closing? Makes no sense. Honestly that was one of the main "WTF were they thinking"...

Yes it's quite consistent that way. The corollary to that is that if you're traveling a route that requires using these current limited chargers, it's best to charge more often to keep the state of charge high. If you have a choice of stopping now vs. pushing on to the next town and rolling in...

The truck will detect the neutral-ground bond at the panel as a ground fault and will not supply current. You could maybe leave the ground disconnected on your suicide cable, I don't know, but do two wrongs make a right?

Driver must be an Apple Music subscriber. Passenger must also have an iPhone. Both potential deal breakers. I wonder if there's a similar not so walled garden solution using a third party CarPlay enabled app on the driver's phone, to which any other device could stream. Just guessing

The independent rear suspension makes a big difference to ride comfort on rough roads.

"Level 2" is AC. 50 kW DC is still DCFC (sometimes called "Level 3" though that's not really a thing). The reason the Lightning doesn't hit 50 kW is its relatively low battery pack voltage. The 50 kW chargers are 400 volts, 125 amps max. The current limit is the key. If you roll in at a low...

Oooh I like that idea. You could instrument the antenna to detect both speed and direction, cross winds too. And it would be quite discreet, no gizmos hanging off the mirror. I'll have to think about what kind of sensor you could use.

A bit off topic I suppose, but does any hardware exist to actually *measure* the effect of head/tail wind? I'm thinking an airspeed sensor like a plane. Even if it couldn't be integrated with anything and had its own display.

No kidding. Half the updates are supposedly to improve the updating ability ? so you'd think it would be awesome by now lol I got this one today as well. 23 XLT, so no walk away locking involved.

Every time I visit a food truck and have to shout my order over the roar of the generator, I kind of want to tell them there's a (much) better way. But I am not an evangelist.

I feel like there's something wrong if the truck is shutting off even with the shutdown timer disabled. It should stay on indefinitely (until the battery depletes to the set limit). At least it does for me. You could check that the limit under Pro Power settings is something really low...

It's not in drive off condition unless you leave a key inside. It won't shift out of park.

If it's a 120V 30A outlet you'll be disappointed. The Lightning will only charge at 12 amps on 120 volts no matter what EVSE you use. Plug adapters could be useful though. 12 amps is better than nothing in a pinch. Getting off topic but I went with the Tesla UMC because of the variety of...

There was a time not so long ago when that sentence would have made no sense whatsoever. ?

This. You will get the rated range at slow speed in the city. But nobody cares about range in that situation. You will NOT get the rated range at real life highway speeds. That's just the way it is.

No, it worked. Started the climate at least. I assume it's the same as pressing the start button in the cab without your foot on the brake, but I didn't test it in detail since I don't plan to actually use that fob. It would be nice if somebody made a fob with both the remote start and frunk...

Any recommendations for high flow cabin filters that won't break the bank? I'm guessing the cheapest possible one I can find would probably also have the highest flow because less material? I'm OK with trading off filter performance for AC performance for the couple of months of warmish weather...

Yeah that low current shutoff pretty much defeats the purpose of the "pro power on while truck is off" feature, from what I've been reading here. If you actually want power to stay on you have to leave the truck on.

Yep. Huge annoyance. Especially since there is a setting specifically under Cruise Control where Lane Keeping is set to OFF. But it still turns on. It's bordering on a safety issue since it requires a lot more attention to find the small lane keeping button and then confirm that it is off...