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  1. Engelbert

    What is the lowest state of charge you have gone down too?

    On the PA Turnpike, where exits are often spaced at roughly one per time zone, I missed my intended exit for DCFC during the middle of winter due to some defensive maneuvering to avoid a trio of lane-drifting trucks. Thirty seconds of distraction and boom, the exit was already behind me. Whole...
  2. Engelbert

    Finally personally saw the difference between battery preconditioning and no battery preconditioning

    I'd like a simple on-screen button labeled "Precondition," showing up whenever I am NOT using built-in nav (hence no automatic preconditioning), and I push it about 20 minutes before I arrive at a charger. Fully my responsibility to push the button. A status stripe on the screen then reads...
  3. Engelbert

    Toyota boasts new battery technology with 745-mile range and 10-minute charging time

    It's a shame when people use the first sentence above as a bridge to the second sentence above. When someone says "my source is Wikipedia," at best it's a form of shorthand. It's typically the case that (1) they aren't citing sources correctly in a written work, and/or (2) they aren't...
  4. Engelbert

    Worrisome body control bug? Frunk and Rear lift gate popped open on their own

    This unexpected simultaneous trunk & frunk opening upon power-off has happened to at least two others on these forums. I am one of them. My thread on this topic: Spontaneous trunk AND frunk opening when parked? Having once worked at NHTSA, my first suspicion during truly bizarre auto behavior...
  5. Engelbert

    Cambridge MA Police Mach-E

    Not to pick on this post in particular. But having once lived in Cambridge MA for several years, the idea that there would be a high speed chase of any substantial duration through those streets is pretty entertaining. Maybe on Memorial Drive at 3am. I think you'd get maybe a good 2-3 mile run...
  6. Engelbert

    E-Z Pass Transponder problem

    The dotted windshield area was very hit-or-miss as a mounting spot for my older EZ Pass transponder. So I threw the thing in the glove box more than a year ago as an experiment, and since then it seems to register at the toll every single time. The better solution would be to finally ditch that...
  7. Engelbert

    FordPass frunk & trunk buttons disappeared

    It has been a little while, so my memory is a bit hazy. But as I recall, I ended up deleting my driver profile; removing myself completely from the app (seemingly making my wife the primary account tied to the car in the process) and of course removing the app from my phone; having my wife then...
  8. Engelbert

    Auto frunk/tailgate opening by themselves?

    YES! See my recent thread on this very same bizarre occurrence: Spontaneous trunk AND frunk opening when parked?
  9. Engelbert

    Spontaneous trunk AND frunk opening when parked?

    Interesting idea. My phone was sitting on the wireless charging pad at the time of the event, and my hands were nowhere near it... but this has me wondering if it was conceivably the app that went wacko in that moment, instead of the car. Perhaps the car was just following the instructions it...
  10. Engelbert

    Spontaneous trunk AND frunk opening when parked?

    So this is a new one for me: Nice spring day today. Took a drive at lunch. Returning home, I pulled into the garage, shut off the car, and prepared to get out. All seemed normal. I opened the driver door to exit, and at the precise moment when I pulled the driver door lever, simultaneously...
  11. Engelbert

    Wife saw this charging in VA: Nikola Semi

    Check out the shine on that MME though. Lookin' good @NJDevFan30.
  12. Engelbert

    Bad experience with dealership

    My salesman used exactly the same line when I greatly inconvenienced him by trying to contact him a couple of times in a calendar month after he blew me off for a long time. “I have 80 customers right now and have to look after them too, blah blah…” I told him, “Well I only have one salesman...
  13. Engelbert

    Any chance of a metal replacement (mod) for the volume knob?

    My take: I'm definitely a fan of the more textured knob for the gear selector, and I'm pretty ambivalent about the volume knob, so I guess I would want it to match the gear selector (i.e., have more texture). Both of the OEM knobs have a finer texture around their edges, and I guess I don't see...
  14. Engelbert

    Preview Look at Tesla Supercharger US Membership App Screen for Non-Tesla EV Owners

    Game changer in Delaware, specifically the southern Rehoboth, Bethany, and Lewes areas. But only if the pricing is reasonable. Reasonable being somewhere in the neighborhood of current supercharger rack rates or maybe slightly higher. If I need to pay a ton per year for membership, instead of...
  15. Engelbert

    Fix(es) for Display Overheating

    I have an AOSK storage box and have found it very useful for holding keys and especially phones. Never considered using it to shield the back of the display from inbound solar radiation (less of an issue in the mid-Atlantic), but I suppose it probably does a good job of that too. 😊
  16. Engelbert

    Electrify America will install ultrafast EV chargers at over 25 IKEA US locations

    ^^^ This, right here. TONS of people go to IKEA, an increasing number of whom drive EVs. Apartment dwellers who in many cases lack at-home charging options; homeowners who are fine with what may be an hourlong drive in each direction for flat pack furniture and maybe a charge top off; and now...
  17. Engelbert

    Any chance of a metal replacement (mod) for the volume knob?

    I'd probably pay more than $20, but if the price starts approaching three digits for a pair of knob covers, it would be a quick no-thanks from me too. I think your hesitation is well founded, @AOSK. Given the careful thought that goes into launching plastic accessories like storage bins, phone...
  18. Engelbert

    Any chance of a metal replacement (mod) for the volume knob?

    Same! Not very interested in a headlight knob cover, as it is far less visible than the centrally located volume and shift knobs. The headlight knob is also in the least need of an upgrade IMO, as it's just a headlight switch (I know, wrong crowd to say anything in this car is "just"...
  19. Engelbert

    Just running the numbers to go with ICE.....EV still is equal or wins.

    I get a similar smile from setting my withholdings so I am borrowing, rather than lending, money at 0% interest for several months. ;)
  20. Engelbert

    State Charging Infrastructure Plans

    Pennsylvania: https://www.penndot.pa.gov/ProjectAndPrograms/Planning/EVs/Documents/Final%20PA%20NEVI%20State%20Plan%20(ver%207-21-2022).pdf


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