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After laying down 50,000 miles in 2 years.. a sweetheart deal on a Lariat Lightning appeared so we traded off the twin turbo Flex monster for the Beast Lightning. Pays to have good contacts at a dealer as the preordered truck appeared and original orderer bailed. I was the 1st on the salesman’s...

Cruising at 45 mph on a rural 2 lane road, a deer races out right to left in front, I get on brakes quick but still smacks left front-center of hood and bumper. Bent 8” of hood front lip down at 45 degrees. Cracked left headlight when it appears it was pushed into fender. Cracked front bumper...

I’m a demon commuter 5 days a week 88-90 miles a day month over month year over year. Plus occasional weekend road trips. The highest 100% charge I’ve ever seen was 263 miles in late summer ‘21. Two years later with 47,772 miles and 93.5% HV battery heath.. I’m more than happy with 252...

Here’s to the commuters of the Mach E world.

This: https://www.carscoops.com/2023/05/why-jim-farley-thinks-china-is-a-greater-threat-to-ford-than-gm-or-toyota/

I think there’s a there there. Interesting comments regarding the Farley-Musk mutual admiration society. https://seekingalpha.com/article/4607738-ford-just-hit-the-jackpot The enemy of my enemy is my friend when we’re faced with a competitive future aka China.

Well, not quite 100 mph tape but 55 is fine. The great thing is Ford will cover the $$$ as the port latch failed at 41,556 miles.

April ‘21 build, SR AWD Select. Average ~90 miles RT 5 days a week on rural western WA roads w/rain, wind, ice, animals, & road debris. PAAK to monitor, FOB to drive. Charge at home ~ 95% of time, typically to 80%. Decent headlights. Quiet. When heat necessary (mostly defogging).. use 1 bar...

Warrenton OR, Sunday at noon. EA site 4/4 and a year ago it’d be 0 for 0.

The county I live in had a few local roads in 1911. A decade later the current road system was 90% built as miles of gravel. A decade more later the trains were gone, the small coastal steamer ferries were gone. The stables were gone as were most farriers. Gas stations, road houses, mechanic...

https://elements.visualcapitalist.com/biggest-sources-of-electricity-by-state-and-province/ At $.0634/KWh it’s incredibly inexpensive to commute ~90 miles a day.

A week ago my 54 minute commute morphed to 2 hours. A Silver thaw happened at night where it rained while the temps stayed at 28F and turned the highway into 1/2 inch of ice. The wind was pretty strong (30 mph) and at one point I had to slow from 28 mph to 17 mph to avoid being blown off the...

The transportation revolution appeared at the dawn of 20th century. Only fitting that it continues to evolve. While this article is interesting in the impact to vehicle maintenance. Going from horse drawn to ICE powered vehicles (an extremely brief period of BEVs too) continues to evolve. My...

Curious if anyone uses Recurrent? https://www.recurrentauto.com/about I checked it out on our MME via the reports it creates and was pleasantly surprised that it squared up with my experience. With 34,000 miles our AWD Select has performed with battery range at/above EPA estimate. Those miles...

Electric Wonderland. In the last 14 months I’ve put 31,000+ miles on the Mustang Mach E. It uses about 21-22 kilowatt hours per day on my 90 mile round trip commute. Or about 30 electric hp in two hours. About the same HP as a late 50’s VW Bug wound out tight at the crank. Or a 30 HP electric...

26,068 commute miles: 1 Year Short take-Commuting in any thing other than a BEV is fuelish. Zero operational issues w/fob.. PAAK getting better. A warranty windshield reseal and followed by rock-broken windshield replacement were uneventful. OTA is seamless, and the recent recall update was...

After dicking around with a lone finger I backhanded her with two knuckles which works much better.

We drove 1900 miles out and back from the Pacific Ocean to Great Falls, Montana. MME AWD SR Select. Caveat: Your Swiss Army Knife App kit needs Plug Share, EVgo, ChargePoint, A Better Route Plan, plus Electrify America Plug & Charge activated and you need a pretty smart feeling for your driving...

In the last 80 miles & heading home on the Aberdeen Highway section of US101 we picked up this 14” crack from glass edge in on the passenger side after a rock strike that put the star+crack across in an instant. Insurance will cover a full glass replacement + camera realign. $250 deductible...

Approaching 14,000 miles on the OD and I had my first law of unintended consequences. My iPhone went dead late in the afternoon during a video conference, the car was a 1/4 mile away and the campus was dead quiet. Home being 75 miles a away.. I realized that if I could find a soul with a phone...