Haha, I get it. That Bronze trim option is a hard no for me as well. It is possible, however, to configure a decent looking M60, at least to me.As for that iX, that's a hard no from me, I did a full inspection of a black with gaudy gold door handles while one charged on Thursday ?
I think the question is "under spec" for what requirements? What assumptions did they make about how our cars would be used? And also what constraints did they have with all of the other components of the battery system, which they couldn't change (cooling, sensors, specs for the bus carrying the current, etc)?
All speculation, but I think thermal management is a challenge for our battery pack -- in many cases they have to model and approximate parameters. The motors can request a lot of electricity, and with a 400V system, you're going to see a lot of amperage (and heat),. Perhaps Ford did not model enough to cut things down at the very high end of how OP has been repeatedly driving.
I’d go for a R1S but I’m a bit worried about Rivian staying around, but I guess that’s just the name of the game with EVs
They are basically unobtanium unless you want to spend crazy markup, regardless of whether you think Rivian will be around to fufull your reservation 5 years from now.
I have a R1S reservation, but I feel I'll be lucky to see it before 2025. Even in spite of that, however, their communication is still better than Ford's.
Sounds to me like the engineers at Ford tried to save a few bucks and grossly undersized the high voltage contactors, whilst also not getting the memo that they were designing a "Mustang". You can see the same sort of design flaws with the way the heating and cooling system were designed as well.
I drive my GTPE hard as hell with a lot of 0-50 accelerations and curves into straight aways and up and down mountain passes at high speeds and have had zero failures. After two failures I’d start looking at some other cause like DCFC events or timing of those with a hard driveor just something else in the power train or charging system. After 3 times I’m almost 100% certain there is something else going on here than the HVJB being the cause. Even in the what I believe is slim chance it’s actually three HVJBs that were the primary failure, there’s something unique in how you drive or operate. I’m curious to know what that might be?
Hey, ya gotta drive it like ya stole it ;-)
As I understand it even after the updated HVBJB is installed the recall software to monitor it and give advance warning of failure stays. It would seem so since my last failure I had the recall software installed and it gave me the same warning I am getting now with the same code.
