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Pretty impressive. A range loss of around 5% is less than those of us in cold Winter climates face every Winter.

No, the closest I got was someone complaining "it was not a Mustang".

How do you react to your ICE owner friends complaining about high gasoline prices? Do you just frown and nod your head? Smirk and brag about charging at lower, consistent prices? Or? Did anyone see the YouTube video comparing gasoline prices to charging in Los Angeles, CA? He drove a RAM V8...

Some Tesla stations have one of the chargers turned 90 degrees to the others and moved to midway along the stall. Apparently, it is a substitute for not having pull through stalls. I have used the one at the Tesla station in town without any problem. Did not need to take 2 stalls. I have...

The biggest difference between ICE and BEV cars is "fueling". When you pump gas, you are filling a single bottle. When you charge a battery, you are filling multiple battery cells. The best analogy I have heard about the BEVs battery charging curves is to consider filling a theater before a...

My experience with my 2021 having incomplete OTAs occurs for a couple reasons. a. Your car is not accessing your home WiFi. Make sure your car can connect (if you have home WiFi). b. Your 12 volt battery charge is too weak to do the OTA. Drive your car for about a half hour to allow your HVB...

Keep in mind that driving a hybrid, plug-in hybrid or EREV are that first steps toward your next car being a BEV.

Read my second post again. I stated an integrated system. Something built in by the manufacturer. Not stuck on the roof. It would make sense if I did not have home charging or went on vacations out in the boonies and the installation was affordable. You see the Sun every day. It may not be...

When I worked, I usually had a short commute of less than 3 miles. (A city of 50,000 people.) Parked outside at work, though sometimes I had shade. So having a properly integrated solar panel system, especially if I rented without on-site charging at my apt. or work, might make sense, if I...

Am unfamiliar with this company. Other companies are proposing adding solar panels (Nissan, Aptera, Telo and others). A couple start ups, that failed, tried them (Fiskar(?)). The idea is if you park outside then why not harvest a few rays to help recharge your battery. Even adding a few...

The update that is new to me is v6.4.1. Also, I entered 8 character codes and 10 digit codes. The enter button did not show at anytime.

There is an update for the Ford app. The phone expiring is a result. Follow the instructions to remove and reinstall your phone. It will also take you to giving a new keypad code. I had problems. It told you to enter your new code. It does not have anyway of going to the next step after...

Battery swapping is possible in China. One or two brands offer it. The problem I see is that a swappable battery needs to be standardized. You cannot offer too many variants. Imagine driving up to swap for a long distance battery only to find that only commuter batteries are available...

In response to questions about the V8 in my Mach E, I show them my empty bottle of V8 juice kept in the frunk.

This proposal calls for double taxation. You pay once for your registration to cover the cost of your not paying gas taxes at the pump. Now, they propose you should pay again if you fast charge. Does the bill's author even know that EV drivers pay extra on their registration fees? The...

You need to get on YouTube more. State of Charge is late to the discussing the Walmart charging effort. There is one YouTube channel Arkansas Traveler(?) which is dedicated to tracking new Walmart EV Charging stations. Just as there are others tracking Ionna, Pilot/Flying J, BP Pulse and...

Remember that at the time Ford decided to design a from the ground up BEV, they had announced plans to end all of their non-pick up/SUV brands other than the Mustang. In keeping with this later abandoned plan, they named the new car the Mustang Mach-E. Otherwise, it could have been named...

The problem with ending Federal involvement is that we would lose a national system of highways. Think of all those Interstates crossing thinly populated Western states like Wyoming. States that could not raise enough money in taxes to maintain their interstates. Do you really want to go from...

It is surprising that it did not occur to anyone for the Feds to contract with the states to collect the EV fees for them. In most states it would just require a little reprogramming of the computers printing out our annual license plate bills. It would also provide an enforcement mechanism...

The local US Post Office has a couple Ford E-Transits in service. They have their Blue Ovals painted out by a Post Office White Eagle painted over it.