Search results

This is really good, this is the first real view of the underside I have seen anywhere.

Given how they are going after catalytic converters here, I would be more than happy to have one of them crawl under my Lightning and try to take the battery. Heck, I would sit out with my lawn chair and a beer and cheer em on!

Another one that makes sense after watching an Out of Spec reviews is having a manual battery pre-conditioning button in the menus. That is, the ability to tell the vehicle that you are driving to a DC Fast Charger, and are going to start using it soon, so get the battery cooled/heated properly...

You can actually down rate the 80A charger to run at 40A. Not sure how much it will be worth when it pretty much only works with the Lightning for the feature set. If you needed to plug in a PHEV without DCFC pins, you could just use a J1772 extension cable to bypass the DCFC pins.

I originally was going to say you don't need this with Phone as a Key because (hopefully) Phone as a Key is using strong Asymmetric Encryption. But then I thought more about this, and it is a really good idea. It adds 2-Factor to your vehicle.

I recommend Highway to Hell by AC/DC.

Living in the Pacific Northwest we would have a negative return on investment if we added solar to our house. So, until the efficiency goes up a lot more, we will have to just sit on the sidelines. Sad really, as we would like to have it on our house.

They could only do this if you had an EVSE from the power company. An EVSE is actually a really simple device. It just talks to the car, and says "Hey, I have power!" and the car says "Ok, give me power!" and the EVSE trips the relay, and away we go. So, the power company cannot do this with...

I like it: it looks like a truck, because that's what it is.

Wait, it's not racing? Dissapointed! ;)

Sure, but I don't have a powerwall now, just a generator. So the Lightning will be a step up.

et That works if you have an automatic generator. We don't. So if no one is home, no one starts the generator.

So; about 30 min after posting this we lost power. Can I have my lightning now?

If I am not at home, and there is no power, what is the problem? :p

Meanwhile, Ford is developing the next level of bidirectional charging, Gorman said, called Intelligent Power. That feature will go beyond backup power to allow the same system to optimize charging costs. The truck will be able to target and capture energy from a lower-cost power source, such as...

Oh, that is a really good point. I thought the API was more open. Mostly based on this post in Home Assistant around the FordPass app: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/fordpass-integration/136778/12

Oh, some good ideas there. Screen Mirroring your phone while parked for watching movies? Totally agree. Dog Mode? - absofreakinglutely. I think you can already disable double honk in the F150 menu settings if I am not mistaken?

Won't they already include that? https://www.ford.com/support/how-tos/ford-technology/driver-assist-features/how-do-the-adaptive-headlamps-work/

There are a lot of physical things that we could discuss about adding to the Lightning. Given over the air updates, there are a lot of features that can be added through software. One of them that should copy Tesla directly is the ability to add a USB Stick to one of the ports, and use it to...

Some solar systems can do this. Sunrun is not one of them.