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utvolpj said:
Oh no, they work exactly as designed. It's just a truck company didn't put any effort into the software.

I feel what failed was Ford didn't really want to sell them. There's no money for their service dept and their salesmen know nothing about it. If I wasn't looking for the lightning I'm not sure they ever would have shown me one. Luckily the truck is just an f150 so they could sell the interior items. I was also at one of the largest dealers in Tampa and they didn't know how to deal with the ev tax rebate. It was going to fail without corp support
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McRib and I go back and forth on electric, hybrid, or ice. We need at least one gas burner. But her commute could easily be done in an electric.
 
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hog88 said:
Last summer we were waiting behind a Rivan at the boat ramp, guy launched his jetski with him on it and wife going to pull the truck and trailer out. She couldn't start the truck because he had his phone with him.
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Who takes their phone on the jetski??
 
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McDad said:
Saw a bunch of those in Tahoe last year. What do you like so much about it?
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looks badass, fast as hell (60 mph in 3 seconds), great in snow, gear tunnel under truck bed is awesome, extra storage of the "Frunk", I have a 240v plug in my garage so charging is easy, constantly upgraded with software that keeps adding funcitionality. The only downside is no local Rivian service center but they have mobile techs that come to your house. Hopefully they build one in Knoxville soon.
 
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jvol1 said:

The future is now for china. Hopefully, this tech will arrive here before too long.
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So how exactly do they intend to supply 1500-2100kW in a residential application? For 220V service that’s 9000A per phase? In order to charge these batteries will require direct taps to high voltage service because residential 220V simply will not feed these batteries. That’s going to force a “fuel station” refilling model. And that’s a huge infrastructure power drain. A Tesla supercharger by comparison I believe is around 250kW.

If people just want an EV this helps close the gap on refueling stop times… once there is actually enough of these stations to meet need and the grid infrastructure to feed them
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
So how exactly do they intend to supply 1500-2100kW in a residential application? For 220V service that’s 9000A per phase? In order to charge these batteries will require direct taps to high voltage service because residential 220V simply will not feed these batteries. That’s going to force a “fuel station” refilling model. And that’s a huge infrastructure power drain. A Tesla supercharger by comparison I believe is around 250kW.

If people just want an EV this helps close the gap on refueling stop times… once there is actually enough of these stations to meet need and the grid infrastructure to feed them
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Simple. Buy the largest commercial diesel generator on the market and power your electric vehicle in the convenience of your home.
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
So how exactly do they intend to supply 1500-2100kW in a residential application? For 220V service that’s 9000A per phase? In order to charge these batteries will require direct taps to high voltage service because residential 220V simply will not feed these batteries. That’s going to force a “fuel station” refilling model. And that’s a huge infrastructure power drain. A Tesla supercharger by comparison I believe is around 250kW.

If people just want an EV this helps close the gap on refueling stop times… once there is actually enough of these stations to meet need and the grid infrastructure to feed them
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I don't know if you have to do that size at home. I have one of the largest home chargers and it does just fine overnight. Tesla has really ramped up their charger speeds in the past couple of years so this just joins the arms race
 
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utvolpj said:
I don't know if you have to do that size at home. I have one of the largest home chargers and it does just fine overnight. Tesla has really ramped up their charger speeds in the past couple of years so this just joins the arms race
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Oh you can’t do that size at home that was my point. And I’m sure your home charger does just fine over night.

The issue is while this appears to solve one problem (recharge rate/time) it still creates others. Charging infrastructure will have to be added. Which will need huge amounts of power to be viable on any scale. Which will compete with power capacity desired for data centers and AI processing.

While a cool battery technology at the end of the day it’s a solution looking for an actual problem in daily EV use to solve.
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
Oh you can’t do that size at home that was my point. And I’m sure your home charger does just fine over night.

The issue is while this appears to solve one problem (recharge rate/time) it still creates others. Charging infrastructure will have to be added. Which will need huge amounts of power to be viable on any scale. Which will compete with power capacity desired for data centers and AI processing.

While a cool battery technology at the end of the day it’s a solution looking for an actual problem in daily EV use to solve.
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I've also seen tech that changes the battery out like a forklift. Now that could really be something that works
 
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utvolpj said:
I've also seen tech that changes the battery out like a forklift. Now that could really be something that works
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I’ve read that also. It is interesting. My first question is who actually owns the batteries then. This is how they handle welding gas bottles and medical oxygen bottles. But those items are significantly less capital investments.
 
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