Time to replace?!?
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From: MO
Either replace the coils with OEM or buy a couple of OEM coils and take the tools required to change them. Or buy that new truck because you really want it and are using the wife as an excuse. 🤷
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From: Madison, AL
Same comment as others. Replace a truck because your wife is afraid a coil will fail on a trip! Either replace the coils with OEM or buy a couple of OEM coils and take the tools required to change them. Or buy that new truck because you really want it and are using the wife as an excuse. 🤷
Either replace the coils with OEM or buy a couple of OEM coils and take the tools required to change them. Or buy that new truck because you really want it and are using the wife as an excuse. 🤷
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From: Madison, AL
The CEO's EV trip was with a CCS Lightning. The government subsidized CCS "charging infrastructure" sucks while Tesla's non-subsidized Superchargers are superlative and more plentiful. Hence, Ford and GM have announced they are abandoning CCS in favor of Tesla's NACS. Should have done that back in 2010 or before when Tesla tried to give NACS to the SAE/ANSI committee but they wouldn't have it. Back then the bureaucratic geniuses did not believe DC charging would be necessary for EVs. They thought "80 miles is enough". And didn't want AC and DC on the same pins because a DC switch costs much more than an AC switch. Today we know an EV must have DC charging, and how running two sets of connectors and two sets of wiring (and separate AC and DC switches) to the inverter costs much more than the added cost of a DC switch, which you have to have anyway on the DC side. Tesla's NACS puts AC and DC on the same pins, and is physically smaller than the AC-only J1772 plug.
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Ford is doing fine. The Trump tax cuts allow immediate costing of production investments, which these investments appear as losses when they exceed profits. In the past companies had to write things off amortized over as long as 20 years.
The CEO's EV trip was with a CCS Lightning. The government subsidized CCS "charging infrastructure" sucks while Tesla's non-subsidized Superchargers are superlative and more plentiful. Hence, Ford and GM have announced they are abandoning CCS in favor of Tesla's NACS. Should have done that back in 2010 or before when Tesla tried to give NACS to the SAE/ANSI committee but they wouldn't have it. Back then the bureaucratic geniuses did not believe DC charging would be necessary for EVs. They thought "80 miles is enough". And didn't want AC and DC on the same pins because a DC switch costs much more than an AC switch. Today we know an EV must have DC charging, and how running two sets of connectors and two sets of wiring (and separate AC and DC switches) to the inverter costs much more than the added cost of a DC switch, which you have to have anyway on the DC side. Tesla's NACS puts AC and DC on the same pins, and is physically smaller than the AC-only J1772 plug.
The CEO's EV trip was with a CCS Lightning. The government subsidized CCS "charging infrastructure" sucks while Tesla's non-subsidized Superchargers are superlative and more plentiful. Hence, Ford and GM have announced they are abandoning CCS in favor of Tesla's NACS. Should have done that back in 2010 or before when Tesla tried to give NACS to the SAE/ANSI committee but they wouldn't have it. Back then the bureaucratic geniuses did not believe DC charging would be necessary for EVs. They thought "80 miles is enough". And didn't want AC and DC on the same pins because a DC switch costs much more than an AC switch. Today we know an EV must have DC charging, and how running two sets of connectors and two sets of wiring (and separate AC and DC switches) to the inverter costs much more than the added cost of a DC switch, which you have to have anyway on the DC side. Tesla's NACS puts AC and DC on the same pins, and is physically smaller than the AC-only J1772 plug.
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From: Plymouth, M*******chusetts
I would be all over a Lightning if they weren't so damn high in price, plus the 25% increase in insurance. That negates the savings. My ICE F150 serves me well and at one point once they get the range worked out and insurance drops in price I will switch over or keep the iCE and get an EV.