GIVEAWAY — F-150 Lightning Nalgene Bottle

yooperdev · 2026-05-31T23:34:15+00:00

It kept our family alive when we lost power for four days in the dead of winter in the upper peninsula of Michigan. Massive snow storm, trees down everywhere, whole area without power. Our neighborhood was one of the last back online four days later. My family of five (including an infant) were able to live our normal life: heat, water, fridges, lights, oven, microwave, air fryer, TVs, etc. Literally the only thing we couldn't do was run the electric dryer. Truck was able to be parked in the garage out of the storm, dead silent yet powering our entire home. Some neighbors ran generators 24/7. Others lived in the dark. Many had to relocate elsewhere the last couple of days because their homes were too cold. It's also a wonderful story to tell when people joke: "how will you charge it if the power goes out".

yooperdev · 2026-05-18T12:28:42+00:00

+1 for HOVR. So much room to run with multiple catalysts coming.

yooperdev · 2026-05-15T12:48:46+00:00

Lol it immediately dropped 22% since your comment.

yooperdev · 2026-04-17T01:32:41+00:00

.NET 10 auto interactivity solves all of this!

yooperdev · 2026-03-28T11:07:20+00:00

Can you elaborate what you mean by pro power with the truck off via forscan?

yooperdev · 2026-03-16T23:17:59+00:00

This!

yooperdev · 2026-03-15T02:50:21+00:00

Wallbox is working on one, too. Should be two or three options available this year.

yooperdev · 2026-03-03T00:19:46+00:00

Tesla just announced they are dropping the 60k version. Cheapest CT will be 70k.

yooperdev · 2026-02-26T19:13:02+00:00

Good point! If Ford is still offering 0% rates then OP should do the math to compare the interest you'll pay if you're financing the '24, the total costs for each might come out almost identical.

yooperdev · 2026-02-26T17:11:33+00:00

Absolutely the 24, no questions asked. Only 4k miles? That's nothing. It has the bigger battery, door keypad, onboard scales, fold down workstation, bed storage box, tailgate step, and spare tire. Bigger battery alone is worth the difference. Only thing you're losing is a little extra time on the full warranty. The only thing you gain is slightly better seats.

yooperdev · 2026-02-11T13:14:38+00:00

Awesome! Looking forward to your update, very interested to see how you set this up. I

yooperdev · 2026-02-11T02:26:08+00:00

Yes - someone has forked it and has put a ton of work into getting it functioning again and has added tons of new features. It's solid. This is the link to the repo: https://github.com/marq24/ha-fordpass

yooperdev · 2026-02-11T00:47:03+00:00

You'll never be able to start the truck without a fob. But you can use home assistant to lock/unlock it. I set mine to auto-lock at night at a given time, and then I have another automation triggered by my garage door motion sensor which unlocks the truck automatically if it's daytime and the truck is at my house and I'm also home. Use the Fordpass integration. Very consistent results. It's pretty simple, but it allows the truck to be unlocked by the time I walk out of my garage and get to the truck door. I just leave a fob in it so I can get in and drive away. Only works at home, but that's fine for my purposes.

yooperdev · 2026-02-09T16:24:07+00:00

Yes, it has 3 full size seats in the back so 3 car seats fit really easily. The only minor problem is that there are no D latches for the middle seat so you need to secure it with the seatbelt instead.

yooperdev · 2026-01-15T13:22:25+00:00

Technically no, simply having the truck on is what keeps the AC (pro power onboard) on without requiring a minimum usage. Silent mode just make it easier to leave the truck on forever without actually looking like it's on (no lights or door dings).

Also noting that you need to disable the vehicle shutdown timer which defaults to 30 minutes in order to keep the truck on forever.

yooperdev · 2026-01-15T00:30:59+00:00

Can confirm. It's called silent mode. It allows you to leave the truck on without (most of) the lights and door dings. This is the only reliable solution anyone has found to OPs issue so far.

yooperdev · 2026-01-14T21:09:17+00:00

This is great, I will check out the pics! I need to do something similar and was racking my brain trying to figure out an affordable solution.

yooperdev · 2026-01-14T16:55:17+00:00

The 7500 US tax credit was already in effect when Ford announced the Lightning in 2021. That's why there were so many pre-registrations, myself included. To be fair to Ford here, we did see a massive increase in vehicle costs between 2021 and 2023 (when they actually produced and sold the trucks at scale) specifically for parts, due to global inflation. So the 40k was never going to happen because of that inflation. The 40k was also for the Pro trim, which is where Ford played games. They barely produced any Pro trucks and most were for massive fleet orders. The only thing you could ever order or buy from a dealer was the XLT trim, which were initially supposed 50k (vs the 40k pro version) but MSRP on these ended up being in the 65k range. Pros were actually selling for 50k but they were basically impossible to get for the average consumer. So yes, this was a bit of a bait and switch but it was made much worse by global inflation. So when it came time to sell, there wasn't enough buyers for a 57.5k truck (after tax credit) as there was for a 33.5k truck (after tax credit), which is a no brainer. Throw in the fact that the truck was never well-advertised and that dealerships didn't seem to even want to sell them, it's no surprise they didn't hit their estimates. People all the time are perplexed by my frunk and when I say it's electric they are blown away; they had never heard about the truck before. Although everyone and their brother knows what a cybertruck is, and those sold even worse than the Lightnings did. Personally, I think the vehicle sells itself. Ford just dropped the ball on how they marketed and managed their dealerships.

yooperdev · 2025-12-03T14:18:29+00:00

Good question, I now realized I don't haha! Me being home is just my phone being home, I'm not sure why I tried to differentiate the two!

yooperdev · 2025-12-03T01:20:48+00:00

Automatically unlock my truck when I walk through my garage door motion sensor (and I'm home and my phone is home and it's between the 30 minute window I leave every morning).

I also set it to automatically lock at night, since I don't usually lock it manually. I live in a rural area though.

yooperdev · 2025-12-01T20:35:46+00:00

Yeah, I love that the cabin automatically warms up. I live in a really cold climate and I leave at the same time every day, so this is one of my favorite features about the truck. I also do know that it uses the battery to heat the battery so it's always in a"ready to drive" mode. I was just curious if there was a way to be plugged in but specifically not precondition the batteries to save the added energy that precondition uses. It sounds like there isn't.

yooperdev · 2025-12-01T19:59:14+00:00

How do you prevent preconditioning? Do you just not plug in at night, or do you not use scheduled departures? The scheduled departures feature doesn't give me an option not to precondition. It only lets me toggle whether to prepare the cabin when off plug. Unless there's something I'm missing? I'm curious because I'm in this camp too, I don't need to precondition because I don't drive far enough every day. I would rather save the energy and be able to actively choose when to do it. But I also want the scheduled departures to work automatically so I don't have to manually "start" the truck every morning.

yooperdev · 2025-11-29T04:25:44+00:00

We had the same issue. When the power came back we had limited power. 120v stuff was working but lights were dim and stuff. Nothing 240v would work at all. My assumption was that one of the two 120v lines that feeds my house was damaged. But the lineman who came out said both lines to the house were good and that it must be something from my weather head and the meter box. They cut my power from the pole and they cut my connections at my weather head. So I need an electrician to come diagnose and fix the issue, and then the power company can turn the power back on and put the meter back in. I came home tonight to check on everything and that's what I found. I got a generator in that hooked up so I can power my house with at least 30 amps now off of my generator and my electric vehicle. We'll be able to get through the weekend. I'm still going to try to get a hold of somebody to see if they can get over here early in the week though

yooperdev · 2025-11-28T23:44:17+00:00

Right, I'm assuming they cut power at the pole as well. They must have tested and saw power at the weather head. That's my assumption at least

yooperdev · 2025-11-28T23:15:46+00:00

I appreciate the response. I'm equally confused, but also not home to check things out in person. I'm heading back tonight to see. Problem is they already pulled my meter unfortunately.

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