First, preconditioning the car will help with that. Second, battery composition and packaging will play another factor of which we don't have complete details. Will have to wait and see...
In concept I agree however there is not likely going to be a way to tie into the high voltage side any time soon nor will there be any plows that can accept it. The limiting factor I am concerned with today is the capacity of the DC to DC converter and so far I have not found anything indicating how much amperage it can handle.
Since the load from raising/lowering the plow wouldn't be continuous, maybe you can run the plow off of a 12V Deep Cycle battery, and just trickle charge the deep cycle battery either from one of the onboard AC power outlets or a series resistor from a 12V Cig lighter plug on the lightning side to said deep cycle battery. The resistor would prevent you from dragging down the Lightning's DC-DC converter and would top off the battery when you aren't using the plow.In concept I agree however there is not likely going to be a way to tie into the high voltage side any time soon nor will there be any plows that can accept it. The limiting factor I am concerned with today is the capacity of the DC to DC converter and so far I have not found anything indicating how much amperage it can handle.
Using high voltage accessories in the future both excites and scares the crap out of me!
Not having to deal with a giant hunk of metal actually allows them to engineer a much better crumple zone. Go look at the crash tests for Tesla, they get very high scores. Hopefully Ford has improved the body structure accordingly.
Pure gold!!!! 220 amps should be enough so now I just hope they put the same size in the Lightning.
That's absurd. There is a significant range drop, but not nearly that much. I took delivery of my second Tesla, a P85D, on the west coast in December 2014 and drove across the U.S. in the northern states. The temps ranged from 20 degrees to negative 17 degrees all the way, and we stayed in hotels six nights, all below zero, with the car parked outside. The rated range for a MS P85D at that time was 256 miles. The low temps in South Dakota, Wisconsin, Maine, etc., during that drive dropped our range to a worse case 190 miles, so about 26% range loss, and that was the worst possible case you could image - we stopped for extended stays in places like places like Aspen Colorado in January.
The Ford police build out doc says a 250A DC-DC, but only 55A is available for aftermarket accessories.
I suspect that's a big ask that the mounting is the same.
