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    Newbie Road Trip 101?

    Welcome to the party! Some of these might be helpful (they're older but should still apply): https://www.macheforum.com/site/threads/a-complete-beginners-guide-to-electric-vehicles-from-technology-connections.21534/ https://www.macheforum.com/site/posts/242483/...
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    Jim Farley Discusses Switch to NACS

    I wholeheartedly agree with all of this. I think everyone with an EV in the US would like to know the answer to that question
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    Connected Nav required for DCFC Precondition

    You've got that right. 95% of the threads here start as complaints, and the ones that don't turn into a complaint fest by post 3. I think I'm starting to get PTSD from all the angst. Crap, now I added to the complaint fest....
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    Jim Farley Discusses Switch to NACS

    I don't want to argue with you, but there's absolutely no way in hell you can possibly know what conversations those executives have had in private. If you're simply complaining that there's no public record of such an event, common sense should dictate that anyone seeking access to executives...
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    Jim Farley Discusses Switch to NACS

    Yeah, I was trying to respond to multiple posts last night and wasn't being careful enough which post I quoted. Yes, you're right the MAC address is something that Tesla could use to correlate Tesla-known PII with the car. I guess I shouldn't post right before bed. Nonetheless, Ford is clearly...
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    Jim Farley Discusses Switch to NACS

    The assumption we're all making is that the VIN is in the clear. For all we know the VIN is encrypted with a Ford public key and what Tesla is using is the CN in the certificate to figure out that it is Ford. It is also likely that there is a handshake that contains a random nonce, so the...
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    Jim Farley Discusses Switch to NACS

    Agreed. I know the Dodge announcement was pandering to their base but that "the government forced us to make EV's so we snuck a muscle car past them" is just nauseating. I guess the ends justify the means if that's what they need to do to sell them, but I don't like the tone.
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    Jim Farley Discusses Switch to NACS

    They know a Ford plugged in, but they don't know whose Ford it is or any other PII/metadata.
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    Jim Farley Discusses Switch to NACS

    I would bet your house that he did, although he probably phrased it differently. 😜 Just telling someone they suck doesn't automatically mean that years old design and vendor selection decisions can be changed immediately. Everybody wants to complain about Ford and Tesla for the cord length...
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    Goodwill Program Information: High Voltage Battery Junction Box (23S56)

    I hope that's really well played sarcasm....
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    Goodwill Program Information: High Voltage Battery Junction Box (23S56)

    Thats a crappy experience, and absolutely understandable why you'd feel that way. They should do a lot more for you and others who got stranded.
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    Goodwill Program Information: High Voltage Battery Junction Box (23S56)

    It's made of unobtanium You deserve a whole ice cream truck! Ford is trying to prioritize the HVBJB replacements so that the cars most susceptible to the problem go first (GT's then ER AWD) so that's probably why the website says that. I would interpret that as "wait for your turn". Mine had...
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    Goodwill Program Information: High Voltage Battery Junction Box (23S56)

    As with other moves by Ford where their communication is vague (a pretty high percentage), we don't know for a fact that those who had the ordeals leading to the recall are going to be left out. At this point it's an assumption being made, and it makes no sense to jump to the conclusion that...


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