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- Greg
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- Lightning Lariat ER, Performance Y
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- IT
You've nailed what was the first big farce Ford ever tried to sell. I've been saying it since day 1. They thought they could freeload and cobble together a network from other vendors. It was crap from day 1.I am in one hotel, and my lightning is languishing at another hotel, hooked up to a slow-ass Blink L1 charger because it was all I could find. I had to take an Uber back to my hotel, and will have to take an uber back to the other one tomorrow morning, and hope that it picked up enough miles to get me to a real charger.
Until Ford decides to get serious and actually build a freaking network I will confine my Lightning driving to local only. The Ford Pass "network" is just a list. It doesn't work. What i have now are two nav systems (Google and Ford). Google is flawed and unreliable when it comes to charging, but at least I can get somewhere with it. Ford can't find many locations, has all the functionality of Garmin 2004, and looks awful. The FordPass app can find chargers and sometimes feed them to Google Maps, but it's as likely to take me to the wrong place or to a charger that is not available or compatible. After two long days of driving 2 hours to charge for an hour (when I can actually find a charger close to the route), collecting charging apps so I can sit in an isolated spot with no rest rooms and no amenities, I have had it. My wife is ready to leave the Lightning at an airport and rent an ICE so we can finish driving to our vacation destination.
Ford, if you're listening, quit making us beta test your tech. Get it together.
The only half way relenting thing is when Farley showed defeat and went to Elon (or which ever way it happened) and got us access to the Tesla chargers. It still has miles to go to be fully integrated and they need to update quicker, etc., however Ford is still showing you their hand that they aren't in on EV's in that you don't see any Ford branded chargers. They tried short cutting this whole mess and really didn't care about you after you bought the truck.
My guess is that the Lightning won't see the '26 Model year and you won't have a T3 either.
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