[HN Gopher] Ford surprises F-150 Lightning owners with adapter f...
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Ford surprises F-150 Lightning owners with adapter for charging
stranded Teslas
Author : bound008
Score : 15 points
Date : 2022-06-08 21:09 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| yarg wrote:
| This reminded me of the fact that you can charge an electric
| vehicle by towing it.
|
| Apparently Ford's got a patent:
| https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1132920_ford-patents-cha...
|
| On what pretty much amounts to reversing the polarity.
| bound008 wrote:
| Had to edit the title to fit... original title: > Ford surprises
| F-150 Lightning owners with accessory that can recharge stranded
| Teslas
| tims33 wrote:
| It is great to see a 120 year old company have so much energy. At
| the same time, Tesla is still the best when it comes to range.
| GloriousKoji wrote:
| After going on a number of long road trips in different
| electric vehicles, the bigger thing to beat is Tesla
| supercharger network. Electrify America locations just aren't
| as well spaced out and about every other charging station seems
| to have a broken charger. While it wasn't a problem for me,
| they also don't have enough chargers at each station.
| Melting_Harps wrote:
| > After going on a number of long road trips in different
| electric vehicles, the bigger thing to beat is Tesla
| supercharger network. Electrify America locations just aren't
| as well spaced out and about every other charging station
| seems to have a broken charger. While it wasn't a problem for
| me, they also don't have enough chargers at each station.
|
| I've only driven Teslas in CA where super chargers are rather
| common, my favorite being the one next the SpaceX factory in
| Hawthorne.
|
| And I keep telling people the same thing you said, this is
| why I think Tesla is more an energy company that makes cars
| to use it's network rather than the other way around.
|
| I'm glad they have competition, as EV was always going to be
| more than a one horse race if it were to succeed and while
| Nissan had 1st mover advantage they have fallen way behind
| with the Leaf project: luckily a post Ghosn era will see most
| of their lineup going EV and they're spending $18 Billion to
| offer more EV models in the next 5 years [0].
|
| And Buick is re-branding as an EV only company [1], I'm
| actually interested in what they could deliver if they go for
| moonshots as classic Buicks were actually quite stunning in
| the 30-70s eras. They never got the same recognition as a
| Cadillac but they were on par style wise in my opinion. They
| could just emulate Lexus styles (that Wildcat screams of LC)
| with Electric motors and it would probably be a solid
| platform if they market themselves better and takes hints at
| why it works in China. Maybe if they stick with wagons as the
| Roadmaster still has a lot of cache and no one has offered a
| EV wagon yet?
|
| The issue, of course, is where will they charge?
|
| 0: https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/29/22807700/nissan-
| electric...
|
| 1: https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/1/23148699/buick-ev-
| electric...
| maxerickson wrote:
| The charging stations are likely not a durable advantage,
| they are cheap enough to build out that other companies will
| be able to catch up.
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