In this case ai isn't "artificial intelligence", it's "real stupidity".
Congrats my friend. I'm up to 64k miles on my '22 F-150 Lightning. Just got back from a fishin' and campin' trip near Terre Haute. The Lightning towed the boat and all the other gear with incredible ease. Like you said, it's a towing beast.
Yea, I like what you said there, It’s everything that’s great about F150 just with an EV powertrain. To me, that makes it the best F-150 there is. I've owned seven F-150s in the past 30 years and the '22 Lightning is by far the most satisfying among all of 'em. And you're also right about If they were able to sell them for $40k sales would probably double. About $40k was the price of mine. Hopefully the big shots at Ford are able to apply the lessons they learned building F-150 Lightning for the past four years, advances in battery technology, and all the newfangled know how at the skunkworks to make F-150 Lightning at the $40k price point a reality again.
Ford needs to obey its old slogan for F-150 Lightning, Novelis aluminum factory fire taken into consideration:
Anyone else with the update and an EV having issues with charging? My app no longer allows me to modify charging schedules or percentage. It also no longer allows for deleting an existing schedule or charging percentage. This is very frustrating that Ford hasn’t fixed it in over a week.
No because the conclusion is that people are not plugging in their PHEVs. Has nothing to do with how effective it is at saving gasoline.
If all it measures is percentage of time in EV vs ICE then it’s not accurate. If I drive 20 miles per day and charge every night I’m 100% EV so I must be plugging in. If Texasota drives 200 miles per day and charges every night he’s only 10% EV. But he’s still plugging in.
There isn’t enough data to prove whether people are or are not plugging in nightly.
Curious if retractable rear diffuser (to reduce aero drag) will make it to production. I can’t make out details from previous picture, but Mercedes used similar diffuser to achieve a Cd of only 0.17 with EQXX prototype, and now using on CLA to reduce Cd to only 0.21.
Thanks, but no need. I can still do it from memory. All I need is a calculator and to remember EPA estimates that burning one gallon of gasoline produces 8,887 grams of CO2. Helps to remember basic conversions as well.
For example, in above data I posted previously, simple math shows ICE and HEV fuel economy dropped from approximately 40 rated MPG to 33 actual real-world MPG. That seems reasonable to me. However, the 35 grams per kilometer rating for PHEV is completely unrealistic unless the vehicle operated mostly in EV mode and electricity was generated carbon free, which on average it is not.