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To: BereanBrain; jospehm20
According to Car and Driver, Ford hasn't released the battery capacity, but they estimate the standard range will be 115 kwh and the extended range will be 150 kwh. If true, that's more than any Tesla.

It is said that to fully charge a Tesla at 120 volts takes 4 to 8 days. The Ford would be expected to take longer.

Ford wants you to believe you can fully recharge the standard range Lighting in 10 hours (on 240 volts) or 14 hours (on 120 volts).

That's BS.

34 posted on 05/22/2021 3:31:25 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Der Impfstoff macht frei.)
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To: Fresh Wind

And there is a serious limit to the number of electric cars that can be charged up in a city neighborhood. The grid will not support all these electric cars they are pushing.
What do you want, heat, AC, or a car to drive to work. Pick one!


35 posted on 05/22/2021 3:38:17 PM PDT by 9422WMR (Lie, cheat, steal. It’s how the democRATS operate. )
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To: Fresh Wind

Nobody charges a Tesla on 110. You normally install a 220 charger.


37 posted on 05/22/2021 3:46:59 PM PDT by dinodino ( )
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To: Fresh Wind
"According to Car and Driver, Ford hasn't released the battery capacity, but they estimate the standard range will be 115 kwh and the extended range will be 150 kwh. If true, that's more than any Tesla."

I heard the Pac weighs 1800 lbs. State of the art is 250 to 260 Watts/Kg's. I did a quick conversion of Lbs to Kg and came up with 204KW. Take away the weight of the Pac's components and think of what the cells are doing, and perhaps it is approaching 200KW's. If so that is a big deal.

That is a wild @$$ guess on my part, I maybe all wrong.

51 posted on 05/22/2021 6:08:20 PM PDT by taildragger ("Do you hear the people Singing? Singing the Songs of Angry Men!")
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To: Fresh Wind

Your 5th grade math skills are lacking.

150kWh can be fully charged at 240v single phase AC with a 50 amp plug that’s the same as a cloths dryer outlet on 14 hours.

240x50=12kWh per hour

For a 30 amp kitchen stove sized plug it would take 20 hours.

It’s moot for most people as the NHTSA own data clearly shows the avg person drives less than 40 miles per day. You are talking the equivalent to filling a full tank of fuel every day of the week no one but a very VERY small number of commercial uses fills up every day.

A model S Tesla goes 4 miles per kWh. That means the avg person will use less than 10kWh per day to cover 98% again according to NHTSA data of their YEARLY driving. 10kWh is less than running a cloths dryer for two loads or baking a roast in the oven.

Most of the 150s I see on a daily basis are driven by soccer dads who take them to an office job and then to the sports bar for happy hours with nothing in the beds and they have never seen a job site. Big truck big something else is the mentality for those bozos. With my kinda stone work we carry tools and supplies but never over City to City distances so 100 miles per day with a 1500 lb bed load would suit my commercial needs just fine. I’d install a 50 amp plug in the second garage and feed the F150 off my solar panels output banked into the ERCOT grid as required by law. Put a kWh in get a kWh out net metering as the Republicans who have ran Texas for the last 20year’s have demanded.


56 posted on 05/23/2021 6:31:56 AM PDT by JD_UTDallas ("Veni Vidi Vici" )
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