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Which is pretty in line with all the recommendations from @MickeyAO that so many people then shat upon with their "well the manual says this, and ..." insert personal anecdote about how they know better than people doing actual lab work on them. Those people will probably still call BS on this article.
I would love to see stats on that; ICE Engine vs EV motor failure or ICE gas tank vs EV battery pack failure.
Good points. For the closest thing we can get to an apples-to-apples comparison, we should compare a battery, a couple of motors, and electronics to...an engine, transmission, fuel system, emissions system with catalytic converter(s) and oxygen sensors and all that stuff, ICE electronics, and all the rest.
Even if my battery health goes to 50%, it would not impact my daily use of the truck. Even for the weekend trips, with super chargers where they are, I will be fine. My only concern is battery failure. But as others have mentioned, I don’t let it mess up my enjoyment of the truck and recommending it to others. The way I see it, my ticker may fail before my battery does.
Yes, I totally agree. As somebody who has recently had my 22 lariat in the shop with about 27,000 miles. They had to replace two battery modules. I understand that is the equivalent of 10 cells in each module. I was having lots of other issues, back up camera, collision avoidance, and some other features were corrupted and not working properly when the batteries failed. Thank God that Ford replaced this under warranty. They had my truck for 16 days. And after reading your post that says one module is $4000, there’s no way I can afford to have this truck if it begins to fail past warranty.
