Like you I had a pair of Specialized Turbo Lenovo mountain bikes each with the 750wh battery.
Performance was outstanding time and time again.;)
I think Ford is just plain PLAYING IT SAFE by imposing such restrictive power limits on the battery to ENSURE maximum possible life with PLANNED...
there is no doubt that there were some serious discussions at some point with the bean counters over just where they wanted the PB to land and how long they planned on keeping it around.
Given the Lightning's TERRIBLE TOWNING performance, a stronger PB would "seem" to have been a good idea...
Agreed
But I could see an AFTER MARKET company coming along in the future and offering that sort of thing once the first PB trucks roll OUT of warranty coverage.
If they offered me a 5kW or 10kW battery option, I would WRITE THE CHECK and buy another new truck.
I spend a good deal of time driving in the mountains.
LOTS of Ups and DOWNS.
I could be recovering MUCH MORE ENERGY on those LONG DOWNHILL descents than the tiny 1.5kW battery currently allows...
My case must be different, but what else is new.
I see my engine shut off on the Interstate REGULARLY and run in FULL ELECTRIC mode on a regular basis. But this only lasts for a couple minutes MAX and then the engine comes right back on.
As for me, a bigger batter or at least a larger use...
I came across this discussion on another forum and wondered if anyone here had found a way to TUNE these settings??
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I heard in a youtube comment (so take this for what its worth) that the battery is software limited to a 45-55% state of discharge. That seems overly conservative to...
I am honestly a little surprised here.
I "assumed", WRONGLY, that this would be a No-Brainer and plenty of other owners would have already gone down this road.
When I am driving my wife ALWAYS has her phone playing something or another on her screen.
Seemed obvious to me the solution was to let...