What Features Do You Want to See In Next Gen Lightning?

[Daragh]

Timely OTA updates that are fully validated and are not a random act of God as to who gets them and who doesn’t! Ohhh wait that should be on all model years! Everything else is pretty much irrelevant.

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[Timeless Epoch]

edit: just realized I responded to an old post. Not sure if it’s still relevant.

Climate Controls from App

I have this.

 

[Realtruck]

Hard Solar Tonneau cover

This one caught my eye: Do you mean like one that's solar powered to operate electronically, or one that is a solar panel material that could work to charge the Lightning? Either way, both are genius in their own respect. I could see both being beneficial to the EV build.

I remember reading a thread somewhere that was an article on a automotive company that was working on a solar paint for EV. The concept is next level, and it would be interesting to see how something like that would work for future models.

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

• Hard Solar Tonneau cover

Regarding a solar tonneau cover: This would be nice, but IMO it should come with a small-ish auxiliary battery, about 5 kWh. The benefit of solar on an EV is not single-trip range improvement. It's not realistically possible to charge a 400 or 800 volt battery with the surface area available for PV--you can't get 400 or 800 volts at any sort of meaningful amperage to be useful in the short term.

Instead, the approach I use is that I trickle charge an auxiliary battery during the day with 400 watts, 12 volts, then I use a L1 charger connected to the auxiliary battery to dump that energy into the truck at night. This gives several extra trips worth of charge over a year and it gives a few extra tens of miles over a long, sunny weekend---great for boondock camping. The problem with my approach is that I have to manage 400+ watts of solar panels. Those are a PITA and I would love to have a solar tonneau or bed cap and a solar roof panel (instead of the sun roof).
Telo is claiming to offer a solar roof panel, a solar tonneau and a solar bed cap. I'll believe it when I see it. I don't think their engineering will work out to make those affordable or useful, but I hope I'm wrong.

 

[davehu]

• ....
• Remote convenience - I don't know why we can't do this now, but after I remote start I should be able to remotely control the climate controls.
• ....

You can: a few moments after clicking on the "fan" button, you'll see "climate settings" click on it and you can turn seats on/off, steering wheel on/off, and tempature.

 

[Mach Turtle]

What do I really want to see in the next generation Lightning?

I just want to see it actually happen, preferably sometime before 2040, and made in Michigan or thereabouts. It will certainly be good as long as it just happens. I'm sure Mr. NotAI (Brian) and the Team will implement many of the great ideas from previous posters.

Also please don't start a flame war, but I like the shifter just as it is...

 

[GarrettBlake]

How about make the features you already advertise work as advertised.

Make OTA updates actually happen in a predictable way.

Dog mode.

 

[Whammy Bar]

How about make the features you already advertise work as advertised.

Make OTA updates actually happen in a predictable way.

Dog mode.

Best we can do is karaoke.

 

[Timeless Epoch]

Best we can do is karaoke.

I don't have karaoke.

 

[Scorpio3d]

Regarding a solar tonneau cover: This would be nice, but IMO it should come with a small-ish auxiliary battery, about 5 kWh. The benefit of solar on an EV is not single-trip range improvement. It's not realistically possible to charge a 400 or 800 volt battery with the surface area available for PV--you can't get 400 or 800 volts at any sort of meaningful amperage to be useful in the short term.

Instead, the approach I use is that I trickle charge an auxiliary battery during the day with 400 watts, 12 volts, then I use a L1 charger connected to the auxiliary battery to dump that energy into the truck at night. This gives several extra trips worth of charge over a year and it gives a few extra tens of miles over a long, sunny weekend---great for boondock camping. The problem with my approach is that I have to manage 400+ watts of solar panels. Those are a PITA and I would love to have a solar tonneau or bed cap and a solar roof panel (instead of the sun roof).
Telo is claiming to offer a solar roof panel, a solar tonneau and a solar bed cap. I'll believe it when I see it. I don't think their engineering will work out to make those affordable or useful, but I hope I'm wrong.

Those prices are pretty steep!! And no information on production (wattage) which can’t be much.

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

Those prices are pretty steep!! And no information on production (wattage) which can’t be much.

Agreed.

 

[invertedspear]

You can: a few moments after clicking on the "fan" button, you'll see "climate settings" click on it and you can turn seats on/off, steering wheel on/off, and tempature.

This was not an option on the previous version of the fordpass app that we were on at the time I wrote that.

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