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No, I'll bite, perhaps I'm not following. You're saying the cables already exist today. There's already a 16' NACS extension cord, male to female? I could be wrong. Or are we talking about 3-phase receptacles found at industrial sites or large apartment buildings? Because those don't count and...

Being cost prohibitive most people would think would be the #1 reason why it can't be done. You're not understanding the disconnect issue but it's just one issue among many. Right now Tesla is in charge of detecting if there's a break in the shielding and exposure to the outside world and will...

Guys, this is arc flash territory. As in, people will be causing this to happen. Perhaps not en masse, but introducing failure at these currents results in deadliness. There's a reason why I'm being so incredulous over this not being a practical possibility :D

You're talking about a cable that would likely cost over $2000 retail if someone went through the trouble of developing one if national code would even allow it. The kinds of connections you're talking about are "dumb" 3-phase industrial connections that don't exist in residential applications...

No, you're wrong, this stuff is regulated, we have code. You're not allowed to just engineer and do what you want. There are many reasons within the EVSE section of the NEC why this doesn't work which stipulates the requirements for AC and DC cables. You should spend some time in ChatGPT, she's...

You see how the thing feeding your house is sheathed from the second it touched your house and is hardwired? I'm not saying you can't carry that amount of current on cables. I'm saying they don't make consumer extension cables for this purpose and never will.

It's literally impossible with current implementations, and I don't understand why people think that it is. The issue of connection points can't be overstated. The higher the current, the bigger the problem the connection becomes. You might engineer something to work the first 100 times with...

NEC doesn't rate extension cords for 500A and isn't feasible. You're talking 500 MCM wiring or larger if aluminum. I really don't think people are appreciating the wattages they're talking about here. There's nothing out there in consumer world built to do this, nothing certified, nothing that...

Actual thefts have been low. Vandalism on the other hand has been on and off, high in various regions.

Water cooled aluminum alloy, ever wonder why they're so thick? Copper has the problem of walking away in the night.

What exactly are you basing this on? What's the gauge of you wire? What is it made out of? Is it cooled? Cannot overstate you can't just throw around 150kW and extension cords lol.

7 pages fast, wow. I've recently complained rather vociferously here, they even locked the thread (which, I think is silly): https://www.f150lightningforum.com/forum/threads/fords-going-to-lose-me-with-not-showing-me-state-of-charge.21310/ Lightning would still be my #1 choice right now. The...

Almost like when you fudge the numbers and make invoice over MSRP and cloud the incentive structure the salespeople are less inclined to know the product thoroughly and sell them aggressively. I honestly blame Ford more than I blame the salespeople. Communications is PR is marketing is...

Kind of. It's complicated. I was specifically getting in-person opinions from events on specifically EV SUVs and trucks (we had Rivians and Lightnings) in specifically rural America and I saw the opinions change live. There was a noted shift when one presidential candidate began railing on...

OP I'm really really sorry for you. I've had this argument now in several places that Ford is doing a really really shit job of informing people of this change on the 2024s. I hope everyone who is making this mistake posts about it so Ford can see and fix the mistake. There's so much ink and...

Can I go to my actual dealership yet or is Ford still following through on that part of their early EV dealership thing? I've been taking advantage of not having to go to the service center by owning an EV and not going to the close dealership that was in on the program I think is shady and...

That's not relevant to the people who are saying it's being forced on them. If you represent a dealership in South Alatucky, there's no mandate. If you get rid of your truck and say, "I just don't want anyone pushing things on me" on your heavily subscribed channel - after you already own one...

What one state does is not what the nation does and the forces that be that are railing against EVs aren't saying "I'm going to reign in California state law for Californians because of their EV mandates" (which does get complicated in terms of emissions overall, but digressions) Mandates were...

Don't remember what you said and not gonna go back and check. Strong opinions are great and being able to see the other side at the end is the entire point even if you still disagree. This is the low point on EVs, trust me. The fundamentals you're stating are factual and obvious and the...

I'm guessing this whole % on the IPC thing is going to break much like the phone arguments of 10 years ago. There were some people who cared, some who didn't and no complaints if it's there and toggleable from anyone. This isn't rocket science nor do I think it's crazy many of us want a...