✅ 6/6 Lightning Build Week Group

[Firestop]

[ I will follow-up with manual reports shortly...... ]

Shipped Updates: (presumed departure 7/6)
@DrNurse @Firestop @Maverick87r
@JWW Your dealer should be calling you soon!

It could have been a 7/7 EDST departure…

My status changed right before midnight PDST just as I was online checking, and in between looking at the Ordertrack.app site and the Ford CA tracker. First, the app site & Ford US said “Built”, the Ford CA tracking site said “Shipped”, and then a quick check back to the Ordertrack.app site confirmed “Shipped”.

The Ford US tracking site hadn’t updated by the time I crashed & burned just before 0100 PDST. In my email this a.m. was a “Shipped” notification from Ford received at 0152 hrs PDST.

I got my rail car number from Ford CS this morning…CSX tracing says it was in Toledo, OH as of 0952 hrs EDST

 

[Firestop]

All caught up on manual reports, I'm sure more will come in through the day, good luck folks!



Looks like you are rolling without me, we were built the same day but my truck needs more components before it's shipped

Nah, I was a Blend Day behind you with roughly the same configuration…also, only seeing “WiFi” in my Ford App…

Thinking good thoughts…you and the other admins deserve your trucks for all you do to support this forum!

 

[DrNurse]

Looks like you are rolling without me, we were built the same day but my truck needs more components before it's shipped

Oh no. I figured we would ship out at the same time. Hopefully you're on the next train.

 

[TaxmanHog]

It could have been a 7/7 EDST departure…

My status changed right before midnight PDST just as I was online checking, and in between looking at the Ordertrack.app site and the Ford CA tracker. First, the app site & Ford US said “Built”, the Ford CA tracking site said “Shipped”, and then a quick check back to the Ordertrack.app site confirmed “Shipped”.

The Ford US tracking site hadn’t updated by the time I crashed & burned just before 0100 PDST. In my email this a.m. was a “Shipped” notification from Ford received at 0152 hrs PDST.

I got my rail car number from Ford CS this morning…CSX tracing says it was in Toledo, OH as of 0952 hrs EDST

I think the status update occurs from a batch process routine , it is timed to run overnight at a very specific time (CHRON JOB). This is my real world experience with production process monitoring and reporting.

During the prior work day or maybe 2 days prior, manufacturing activities are occurring, scans of product bar codes happen as the trucks move to the next stages of production and shipping, these scan transactions are accumulated through the day, then at the proscribed time CHRON runs to post the major actions to our personal accounts, public facing web tracker search engines and then minutes-hours later another CHRON JOB runs to generate emails for the Built, Shipped, Final Prep communications.

 

[FlasherZ]

Good morning 6/6 build group..just got the email that my truck has been shipped....my transportation is convoy and I don't think it will take 13 days to get to delivered so we may need to start making preparations sooner than later..what are you guys doing about charging..are you going to upgrade your home elec service to accomated the 80 amp charger and/or the home backup? Also what are you doing with your current truck/vehicle..waiting to trade it in at Ford?

P.S. My truck is for sale!

I have a Tesla Model S already with a wall charger. I purchased a TeslaTap mini in advance of receiving the truck so that a) I could use Tesla destination chargers that exist all over the place to charge my truck, and b) I can use my existing Tesla charger to charge the truck before the CSP arrives.

Because Illinois allows for sales tax credit for trade-in, I'm trading my Tesla directly to the Ford dealer. They are giving me a trade-in value that -- combined with the sales tax credit -- is right about what I could get if I went through the hassle of advertising, showing it, etc. Unfortunately, unlike other states, in Illinois you cannot take trade-in sales tax credit by selling the vehicle to one party and buying a new vehicle from another (Missouri allows this and I'd love to shop my car around).

 

[FlasherZ]

I have a Tesla charge connector and a NEMA 14-50 on opposite sides in my garage. So short term I plan to use the NEMA 14-50 for the Lightning. I have a total of 100 amps available to the garage so I should be good with the Ford Mobile connector. Long term option 1 is to have an electrician install the Charge Station Pro down rated to use 60 amp circuit and down rate my Tesla charger to 40 amp circuit (actual charging amps will be lower than that for each). The other alternative I have considered is buying a second Tesla v3 Charger since it should be able to dynamically share power with my existing v3 charger. I'm just not sure if the Tesla power sharing will work correctly when charging a non-Tesla through an adapter and a Tesla.

I don't know that answer either, but I'd love to hear if you determine it can be done. In theory, if the EVSE equipment is making the decisions and offering only available current to the car, it should work... but if Tesla has the EVSE talk to the car and the car only draws <x> amps, that obviously wouldn't work because the Ford would probably ignore the messages. Newer Tesla WC's use digital communication to "speak" with the cars.

A way to test it would be to source 2 TeslaTap units and plug in two Teslas on the v3 wall connectors using it and the J1772 adapters... but unfortunately, I don't have that gear - I have only one TeslaTap, a v1 WC, and a v2 WC.

Let me know if you hear anything.

 

[13_F150]

As of 7am eastern I was not shipped. Now 1pm est and I'm shipped

 

[beatle]

You need to be 80% of max continuous load. So for the 100A circuit, you can only use 80A max on that circuit. Since the Ford charge station is non configurable, you would need to down rate your Tesla even more. However the Charge Station Pro is rated @ 80A already. So I am not sure how you would also use the Tesla one at the same time.

CSP is configurable and can be run as low as 16A. See page 15 of the installation guide here:

https://www.f150lightningforum.com/forum/attachments/fordchargestationproig-compressed-pdf.50317/

I'm also assuming that this 100A feeding the garage is going into a panel from which he can run two separate branch circuits - one for the CSP and one for the 14-50. Code says you can't put two EVSEs on one circuit unless they are configured to load share.

I think the Tesla HPWC sharing should work even if you're using an adapter since the negotiation / max power delivery occurs at the EVSE. We also would have heard at least one story where a circuit feeding a bank of of destination chargers was blown by some non-Tesla using an adapter.

 

[SmoothJ]

CSP is configurable and can be run as low as 16A. See page 15 of the installation guide here:

https://www.f150lightningforum.com/forum/attachments/fordchargestationproig-compressed-pdf.50317/

I'm also assuming that this 100A feeding the garage is going into a panel from which he can run two separate branch circuits - one for the CSP and one for the 14-50. Code says you can't put two EVSEs on one circuit unless they are configured to load share.

I think the Tesla HPWC sharing should work even if you're using an adapter since the negotiation / max power delivery occurs at the EVSE. We also would have heard at least one story where a circuit feeding a bank of of destination chargers was blown by some non-Tesla using an adapter.

Correct, but if they are different cirtcuits wired to a 100A sub-panel, that would work. Thats what I have at the moment for my 2x 14-50R circuits. We don't use these much though since we are perfectly fine with the slow outside L1 charger (for my wife's Bolt), and her roundtrip commute is usually 60 miles a day. I want to have a 14-50 (or a direct circuit from the sub) on the outside though, and will ask SunRun to do the install.

 

[TaxmanHog]

As of 7am eastern I was not shipped. Now 1pm est and I'm shipped

This experience changes my theory a little.

I looked at yours this morning while I was doing GRAND ROUNDS on all "in production & built" trackable VIN's, the Canadian site still has you in production at this moment, but as you show above the US site has you Shipped.

Congrats on this great news, I anticipate seeing the Canadian site updated Friday morning it will also reveal the ETA which you already shared as 7/25.

 

[WFordKid]

I have a Tesla Model S already with a wall charger. I purchased a TeslaTap mini in advance of receiving the truck so that a) I could use Tesla destination chargers that exist all over the place to charge my truck, and b) I can use my existing Tesla charger to charge the truck before the CSP arrives.

Because Illinois allows for sales tax credit for trade-in, I'm trading my Tesla directly to the Ford dealer. They are giving me a trade-in value that -- combined with the sales tax credit -- is right about what I could get if I went through the hassle of advertising, showing it, etc. Unfortunately, unlike other states, in Illinois you cannot take trade-in sales tax credit by selling the vehicle to one party and buying a new vehicle from another (Missouri allows this and I'd love to shop my car around).

The same for Ga..I have reached out to my dealer to get a ball park estimate on the value of my trade (2021 XLT FX4) and for me to get the same benefit i would have to sell it for about 7% more. Which is what I think i could get for the truck if i sold it myself. I have had the truck listed on this website as well as the sister site with no inquiries. Which make me think that more than likely I will trade the truck in to Ford. What are you guys doing regarding financiaing. Using Ford or having your financing set up prior to showing up for delivery.

 

[Firestop]

I think the status update occurs from a batch process routine , it is timed to run overnight at a very specific time (CHRON JOB). This is my real world experience with production process monitoring and reporting.

During the prior work day or maybe 2 days prior, manufacturing activities are occurring, scans of product bar codes happen as the trucks move to the next stages of production and shipping, these scan transactions are accumulated through the day, then at the proscribed time CHRON runs to post the major actions to our personal accounts, public facing web tracker search engines and then minutes-hours later another CHRON JOB runs to generate emails for the Built, Shipped, Final Prep communications.

FYI…some additional data points direct from my VVR if it helps your forecasting…..

 

[WFordKid]

If your windos sticker says convoy..is there a good place to get any info on when it was shipped and eta?

 

[TaxmanHog]

My dealers DEMO just landed, I am going down Friday afternoon to see if it's available to drive.
https://www.windowsticker.forddirect.com/windowsticker.pdf?vin=1FT6W1EV8NWG01597

 

[Sea Ranch]

No shipped notification yet, but I hope within the next few days.

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