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3997 Highway 7, Markham, ON is an excellent location. 3 minutes off Highway 407 toll road. Whole foods. Panera bread. and of course FIVE GUYS burgers and fries...

FYI regarding Tesla's strategy for regenerative braking at 100% state of charge (SOC = reported on dash). Our 2013 Model S had zero/no regenerative braking when charged full UNTIL a firmware update in 2021 lowered the maximum range, ie, reduced available kWh of capacity at 100% reported SOC...

This is not even remotely true in Ontario Canada. I've owned 5 (!) EV's and all retained value better than any of the 10 gas cars I've owned. And against your point, our 2013 Tesla has retained value well, but NOT any better than our non-Tesla EV's, in fact the 2018 Hyundai Ioniq EV is worth...

Nice! Our 2013 Model S does indeed have SC01 coding on the details page. I expected this since we bought the car used in 2015 from Tesla and the FUSC transferred then from original owner...

Cummins knows electrification (even hybrid) is the way. News from this week :Cummins finalizes Meritor acquisition Tesla Semi and other EV only trucks will be competing with hybrids on total cost of ownership over the next decade, beyond that, EV only will surely dominate. But clearly...

^ Since no one here is interested in a new gas F150, not sure why you posted about gas order banks open?

I agree, and posted that. My point was clear, new nuclear and more gas wasn't a requirement to fill the power production gap.

Road trip charging is a big deal for some number of owners. We've owned a 2018 Ioniq with CCS and only DC charged it once to test it out! Whereas our Tesla S has been supercharged hundreds of times. One of these cars is exclusively driven in the city. The Lightning was my reservation to...

Ford Lightning scores 270 miles at 70 mph.

1. "You", no I didn't vote for him and certainly never for a conservative government which denies climate change. 2. No, new nuclear and gas wouldn't have been the only options to fill the power gap, Quebec has surplus electricity to export that Ontario currently uses in a limited way (500 MW...

There is one positive for Africa, by lagging those that participated in the industrial revolution, they skipped over (or had a limited deployment of) technologies such as wired communications, biofuel (corn ethanol), health insurance schemes and the mini-mall. Distributed solar is cheaper than...

Congratulations! Interesting that you choose towing package and SR battery combination, I myself am pondering the ER vs SR upgrade with tow package. Q : You picked "tow tech" package, and on Ford Configurator in Canada picking this package removes the Co-Pilot "active" lane centering package...

Correct. A-pack, the original battery specification for the Model S early production. Limited to 90 kW maximum supercharging rate, and kW = 120-SOC% charge curve. Tesla improved the maximum and charge curve starting with the B spec packs later in 2013, and interestingly, when Tesla...

No, I have exhaustively researched it day in and day out for a year as I intend to spend $100K on the vehicle, you can't say that. Re: votes, if you don't get a vote, you don't get acknowledged for posting useful content, which I did in this thread as rebuttal to your clearly false statement.

Not mine. Original 2013 Model S with 90 kW maximum charging speed, in the past 100 supercharges, I have been able to reach the exact charging curve the car used when new 9 years later. Obviously, you meant "all 85 except that guys" . l-)

If you get upvoted for your post, I'll relent, until then, almost completely false and shown clearly false. Nothing personal, I like your factual posts, but that one was a turd.

And yet Ontario Canada has a lesson for you. We elected a Conservative Government that has entirely redirected renewable funding to Nuclear. In fact, they spent $400M to cancel renewable contracts, pay penalty, rip working wind turbines out of the ground, and then $20B goes to a nuclear...

So, you agree it isn't an ICE conversion of the F150. The Ford Focus EV was a "conversion". This F150L is not. Fine, keep digging Rob, your statement to remind the thread was : Frame is entirely new, not "slightly modified". The suspension is new to the F150, again, it's not a derivative of...

Politicians get re-elected for this. Billions spent in local districts is exactly what keeps US politicians in their seats for decades.

Right. Ontario dumped coal electricity production nearly a decade ago and made moderate attempts to re-use transmission infrastructure. https://www.opg.com/strengthening-the-economy/our-projects/nanticoke-solar-facility/ Problem, Conservative Government (crack smoking Toronto mayor Rob Ford's...

Wrong! The 2018 Ioniq also came in pure EV 28 kWh variety, which we own and drive, it's not a hybrid, it charges very competitively in terms of distance added per minute charging compared to a big battery 2013 Model S. Point stands, 64 kWh is PLENTY even with a worse charging network...

Ford dealers comeuppance will be coming due in 2024 when the re-up agreements and negotiations will take place. It has been reported that Ford deliberately is creating a special division for only EV's, and within that the 2024 negotiations will set terms to dealers on the EV's (not ICE).

Not quite. F150 Lightning has it's own frame, new unique motors (not used on mach-e), new battery system (SK innovation , not LG), new suspension (rear independent), completely redesigned front end and coolant architecture to host a very large "mega-power frunk", new to F150 large center display...

Lucky you. Others like Alex Autos youtube have $10K "magic" added markup, posted today!

Heat pumps are cheap. https://senville.ca/ And some are DIY : https://mrcool.com/diy-3rd-generation-e-star/ Hey, if the blonde model can install one, you can too!

Wrong. Residential High Temperature (80℃) heat pumps are widely available for domestic hot water and high temperature radiators. https://www.daikin.com/products/ac/lineup/heat_pump...

Not that I've found, I hope they add this soon!

I've owned 4 Ford's, across three decades. No major issues that weren't caused by me (hard driving). Solid cars. 1991 Tempo. First car. Drove the crap out of it for 4 years, sold to my parents. Zero maintenance. Never changed the oil. Blew a head gasket at year 16, 100,000 km and was...

My experience (9 years) suggests 65 kWh is PLENTY for any driving in locations in North America where there is a Mercedes dealership presence. Our 2013 Model S is 68 kWh usable now after 9 years, and we do 60% of our driving on road trips with two or more charging stops. Our sons 2018 Ioniq...

Our Jan 2013 built Model S (vin #~6000) has had one motor "replacement". Tesla chose to replace with a refurbished motor from a similar car with new bearings, and took my motor back to factory to replace it's bearings and put that motor in someone else's Model S. It was for convenience of...

Many dealers are not marking up Lightnings. There is an entire thread listing dealers selling at MSRP on the Lightning owners forum. Personally, I put down a reservation because $100 was a great hedge on Cybertruck arriving late (which is has!).

Care to revise your estimate? https://www.besthorserider.com/average-weight-of-horse-trailers/

https://insideevs.com/news/589557/chevrolet-2023-bolt-ev-euv-pricing/

Why not buy 5 of these for $5K each: https://www.wired.com/story/review-wuling-hongguang-mini-ev/

FYI that plugshare has the "trailer friendly" feature as of June 2022. Noticed it today and found a number of chargers I've used are correct!

FYI, this feature is available in plugshare as of June 2022. Just started noticing it today, not sure when they first added the feature!

Update: First towing report, 50% of rated range https://driveteslacanada.ca/news/ford-f-150-lightning-towing-stats/

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The motors may be efficient, but the entire car systems suck power and waste energy, and add to the weight of the vehicle, also reducing performance. Tesla has room for improvement, but is absolutely the leader in efficiency. A Model 3 is similar weight to a BMW 3 series, whereas I drove an EV...

Jeff Dahn, a foremost expert on lithium battery and funded by Tesla agrees with OP and advocates for V2H or V2G technology to be included with all EV's. His point (on a recent EV club zoom call where he presented) : the majority of battery factory build outs currently announced are for EV's...

The pump behaviour absolutely changed on our 2013 S during 2020/2021 and after an update later in 2021, the pump was no longer running constantly. No issues with my 12V, and I have no 3rd party draining hardware attached to my 12V system. But yes, sensible reply. Thanks. Before 2020 and...

Pump, not a sensor, the PDF I received had the pump part #. No idea if Tesla updated the pumps, but from replies after me, sure seems like Tesla knew pumps were trouble in early cars.. Mine is VIN 6000-ish, very early car.

I specifically outlined the issue to Tesla and the remote diagnostics did not identify the issue with the pump. I suspected PTC heater (as we already had that replaced once), but it took them a day to discover it was the pump, not PTC. They initially quoted me $2K CAD for PTC heater...

Can confirm, coolant pump failures are not visible to Tesla owners on the dash, and even service centers take time to diagnose and identify. My local SC thought I had a bad PTC heater, but found the coolant pump failed. Took them the day yesterday to find this. In a previous gas car a...

FYI that Tesla Model S diagnostic capability for older cars like our 2013 is not good enough to detect coolant pump failure. Service center spent yesterday trying to identify battery preconditioning issue in cold weather and suspected (and ruled out) it was PTC heater till they discovered a...

FYI that indeed I saw no errors on our 2013 Model S, and Tesla didn't identify the coolant pump failure until the service center spent yesterday chasing down an issue with cold weather battery preconditioning. All this to say, the Tesla diagnostics on the coolant pump for older cars seems to...

My 2013 Model S was diagnosed to have a failed coolant pump (in service today, should be repaired in next few days). I noted to service that I suspect this is related to the non-stop coolant pump activity in 2020/2021 when the battery gate firmware was causing all older Model S (like mine) to...

$63500 - $7500 = $56K USD XLT 312 : AWD, 450 HP, 5000 LB towing, 98 kWh battery, adaptive cruise with lane keeping, 2000 LB cargo capacity, 360 camera, power seats and lumbar, 9.6 kW of onboard power, etc. ^ pretty much a screaming deal. $56K for all that is an excellent value in todays market.

Ok, so my point stands, claiming heated seats costs a huge amount of money doesn't see the big picture and is disingenuous. The Ford offering here is competitively priced with the option group that includes heated seats (and tons of other content). Saying heated seats costs big $ is...