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Doing EV Truck things…

It was available for download when I searched the repository.

57xxx arrived today.

Nice. Like seeing others doing this too. Makes so much sense in the long run. Our much smaller system, after now switching our system to Victron components, is about 10% paid for after a year. (about $6k after rebates). 15kw of battery, 5kw mobile of it mobile, on the handcart. 3.6kw of used...

I'm sure it will be our tax dollars to retrain these clowns when the industry passes them by because they decided EV's aren't going to actually happen.

The concerning thing, is, I guess, that we're also using the software Ford creates that could actually kill us... BlueCruise. If they make the app this half-assed, then you have to worry about taking your life into ford's software developer's hands. Before you consider that I have multiple...

I hear ya. I just sold my 2015 S550, and my G/F's family, has almost exclusively bought Ford products for 60+ years. We sold our 2019 F150 before we knew it was going to be so long for our reservation for the Lightning, and ended up buying both a Powerboost and a Mach-E, both of which were good...

So, I skimmed here, so sorry if it was already mentioned, is this what may have been added with the module swaps with a lot of our battery services around Dec-Jan 2024 ? It ended up being a 33 day service for us, and the App was reporting various battery alerts as the modules were being...

Dunno, we have a LOT of young developers that produce top notch work, and when something isn't working, we circle the wagons until it does. We had a CFO that prioritized resources to bringing a lot of development in-house, and it's paid dividends ever since. I imagine Ford is getting what they...

Headed to AngelFire this thanksgiving. Couldn't convince the G/F to trust the Lightning, mainly due to the bugginess of FordPass related to charging. We're taking the overlanded Q7 instead. Seems that there maybe could be more work done on Fordpass instead of this. When we can trust it's...

5.8 not showing as available for IOS for me. Not a beta tester. Not really surprised by any incongruity with this app, tho.

Lol, just looking forward to when the app actually knows my vehicle is charging. I assume eventually, it'll be like obamacare, and they'll realize, hey, this isn't working, and they actually need to hire professional developers... But hey, when the bar is this low, you get excited when you can...

Took our normal weekly 100mile round trip pilgrimage to the farm last weekend, City truck doing country truck things... And charging with the combined 15kW of LiFEPO4's is much smoother(than with just 10kW) with pretty much no intervention, especially with the fordpass app working closer to 75%...

The App, related to charging is a trainwreck. Mine's been charging for 2-3 hours at 2.5kW and it says it's added 0.7kW. Not sure how you screw up simple math, but the Ford App developers have managed it. (missed changes from python 2.7 to 3.x ? Don't know an int from a float ? LOL)

Last truck we'll ever buy. Built a Solar charging system for it, and have mobilized it, and will be towing an overlanding car-carrier/camper with 4kW of solar on the top of it soon all over the country. Slowly, obviously... but, essentially for free, with very limited additional expense. We may...

Wired in the non-mobile, 10kW battery bank. I was worried about the balancing, but so far it seems to be working fine, and the internal BMS for each battery seem to be handling it with no issues. Was rewarded with a new remote console interface from Victron at the same time! First non-cloudy...

I was finally able to change it. It was still hit or miss until today. Today everything in the App worked flawlessly for the first time in, probably, a year.

In general, I only want to charge when the sun is out, (and it did let me set weekends to 11am-5pm, which is what I’d like to set weekdays to as well) we charge at 12 amps, which leaves the Victron system enough headroom to also run the garage mini-split. It maxes out at around 4.5-4.8 kW. This...

The frustrating thing, is, it crashed on setting the weekday charge time, then let me change the weekend, but then continued to crash on the weekday. Change it, save, and it didn’t apply the changes. it’s actually a problem, as I’m stopping charging from the app, when that works…, then it’s...

Is the inability to set these still just a display of how far Ford is from having a passible application software development division ? It's going to stay in the way of people adopting if what should be simple, sending an OTA message to a relay, and saving the setting persistently to a...