Wow that is a lot of work! We are going to do a 2500 mile round trip in my 2023 Lightning standard range and this is super helpful thank you. I'm going to play with it based upon how you showed it working so I can plan well in advance and your tutorial gives me a great head start.
Thanks for making this video. I’ve been trying to figure out how to plan my drive to Vegas in a couple weeks. Great job but goodness we need to get this fixed and have supported Tesla locations in the GPS and Google Maps etc.
I actually really like the navigation that comes in the truck. The turn by turn capability and live data for traffic is great. However, your right that the planning side really is lacking a few key things. I wish the ford team would hire me as a consultant on proper road trip planning. When they revamp the navigation in the truck the planning charging stops function needs a overhaul including 2 key things, 1. Ability to only route to chargers with a minimum charge speed that I can set on the fly as I am planning. 2. The ability to know if the charging station is online or not. Often I have wanted to pull into a station and checked plugshare then realized it was down or limited on speed.
It does show up as a distance to charger on the left screen in the lightning, but I have not tested if that's pre-conditioning the battery. No need to pre-condition unless its cold out anyway.
@@MartinRebuilds-fz1ep Thanks, I am wondering for the specific reason of temperature with winter around the corner. I very much appreciate your video and the steps to make this work. I am going to wait for it to get a bit cooler here in MN and see if I can observe any pre-conditioning using your steps. I will report back if I see anything positive. If I was an Android user, I would not be concerned with the new Google Maps integration. Apple Maps has yet to add pre-conditining.
This is great, but a lot of work and the Lightning or Mach e will not precondition the battery for charging at each stop. If you're traveling in temperatures other than 65-80 degrees, the outside temp will impact your charging times without preconditioning.
Your correct, but when I made this video there was no way to precondition the battery in a lightning when navigating to a tesla supercharger. This was only a work around to get it to navigate there with the distance to charger on the drivers display. Now, however, google ev routing works navigating to tesla sites and preconditions when in route.
Three websites, 1631 steps, waaaaay too complicated. Love my ford lightening but this makes me never want to road trip with her. Shame because she is the most comfortable vehicle! Ford needs to load these in their Navi! Thx for the tutorial just the same, sir.
As long as non tesla chargers are working, the experience really isn't any better. But, that's why I go to the tesla chargers.....they work and there are lots of them available!
With any luck Ford OEM will upgrade/update software to more efficiently add Tesla (and other) charging locations. THis work-arounds are way too cumbersome these days.
Ford is working on it. Hopefully we will see it in the next month or so because I have 2 - 2k mile road trips coming up and would rather just automatically route rather than use my own work around. But it gets us by for now.
been with tesla since my 2012 model s in 2016 . The real joy was my 2016 in in 17. The nav just worked even back then. When you showed us the automatic and it was routing you to level 2 chargers i was WTF! Like you i now have a 23 lighting Lariat big battery and am loving it but the nav is such a POS. I bought it from a dealer 400 miles away and had to do my own nav all the way home as it was trying to get me to very slow chargers along the way. Thanks God i had the lectron adapter so i was able to use 2 tesla stops in route for quick top offs. Ford really needs to get its stuff together with the nav! its horrific. Now to be honest this thanksgiving we will take our f150 from OK to AL and i will be using tesla all the way there and back. Its amazing how spoiled i am having been with a tesla for the past 8 years. Just works. The only reason i got the f150 was because it can use the NACS network. Had it not i was going with a Rivian. Your video here was awesome and thank you! But it should figure this crap out by itself. Again my tesla has been doing it since 2016 ( probably earlier!) EA is just such a crap shoot if its going to work or not. Chargepoint normally works but they are so slow! Anyway... thanks for this. I tend to just input one at a time but i hope ford sees this video and in utter shame they fix it to where its smarter .
Your right, tesla has the software side down much better than Ford at this point. I drove from Kansas to NC pulling a trailer and its not bad going I-40 through Memphis and down to Alabama. The stretch from Memphis to Birmingham is sketchy pulling trailer but empty it would have been easy.
That's definitely one way to look at it. For me, I am not going back to gasoline. Truck is way to comfortable and powerful. I will deal with charging every 3-4 hrs. of driving for the benefits it gives me. But to each their own.
@@MartinRebuilds-fz1ep The way I look at it is this. I used to drive a Ram 3500 Hemi. One a road trip towing an Airstream, I never drove more than 3 hours at a time anyway.For me, I just got too tired. I'm about to get a Lightning Flash, and while I don't plan on towing with it, if I were to do a road trip with it, charging every three hours is not that big a deal. Thanks for the informative video!
LMAO, dude. Do I need to take a college class to learn this method? I guess you didn't say it was going to be easy. But your method is a complete joke.
@@MartinRebuilds-fz1ep yes, better way... Find Tesla Superchargers with FordPass 5.X Open FordPass. Tap on Energy. Select Public Charging from the Charge section. A list of nearby chargers will display. Tesla Superchargers are labeled "Adapter Needed". Incompatible Tesla Superchargers will be marked as "Station Not Compatible".
Find Tesla Superchargers with FordPass 5.X Open FordPass. Tap on Energy. Select Public Charging from the Charge section. A list of nearby chargers will display. Tesla Superchargers are labeled "Adapter Needed". Incompatible Tesla Superchargers will be marked as "Station Not Compatible".
Yep, google maps works fine until you need to charge, then its a mess! There is a reason I don't use my phone when road tripping my lightning. Apple carplay will route you to chargers but I am NOT an apple fan.
A big thank you from a new owner of a used Mach-E!
Wow that is a lot of work! We are going to do a 2500 mile round trip in my 2023 Lightning standard range and this is super helpful thank you. I'm going to play with it based upon how you showed it working so I can plan well in advance and your tutorial gives me a great head start.
Thanks for making this video. I’ve been trying to figure out how to plan my drive to Vegas in a couple weeks. Great job but goodness we need to get this fixed and have supported Tesla locations in the GPS and Google Maps etc.
Wondering, when will Ford install a proper "road trip planner," like or similar to Tesla, Rivian or Mercedes? Thank you for sharing, very helpful.
I actually really like the navigation that comes in the truck. The turn by turn capability and live data for traffic is great. However, your right that the planning side really is lacking a few key things. I wish the ford team would hire me as a consultant on proper road trip planning. When they revamp the navigation in the truck the planning charging stops function needs a overhaul including 2 key things, 1. Ability to only route to chargers with a minimum charge speed that I can set on the fly as I am planning. 2. The ability to know if the charging station is online or not. Often I have wanted to pull into a station and checked plugshare then realized it was down or limited on speed.
Thank you for creating the video. I assume the manual additions do not precondition the battery?
It does show up as a distance to charger on the left screen in the lightning, but I have not tested if that's pre-conditioning the battery. No need to pre-condition unless its cold out anyway.
@@MartinRebuilds-fz1ep Thanks, I am wondering for the specific reason of temperature with winter around the corner. I very much appreciate your video and the steps to make this work. I am going to wait for it to get a bit cooler here in MN and see if I can observe any pre-conditioning using your steps. I will report back if I see anything positive.
If I was an Android user, I would not be concerned with the new Google Maps integration. Apple Maps has yet to add pre-conditining.
This is great, but a lot of work and the Lightning or Mach e will not precondition the battery for charging at each stop. If you're traveling in temperatures other than 65-80 degrees, the outside temp will impact your charging times without preconditioning.
Your correct, but when I made this video there was no way to precondition the battery in a lightning when navigating to a tesla supercharger. This was only a work around to get it to navigate there with the distance to charger on the drivers display. Now, however, google ev routing works navigating to tesla sites and preconditions when in route.
Three websites, 1631 steps, waaaaay too complicated. Love my ford lightening but this makes me never want to road trip with her. Shame because she is the most comfortable vehicle! Ford needs to load these in their Navi! Thx for the tutorial just the same, sir.
It's coming, this video just shows you how in the interim. New tech will always have bugs when it first comes out.
I mean just start driving and when you get to 50 miles left, tell google maps to find you a charger. Pretty easy!
Oh well, unfortunately there aren’t any Tesla chargers on the Big Island of Hawaii where I drive my Ford F150 Lightning….maybe someday?
As long as non tesla chargers are working, the experience really isn't any better. But, that's why I go to the tesla chargers.....they work and there are lots of them available!
With any luck Ford OEM will upgrade/update software to more efficiently add Tesla (and other) charging locations. THis work-arounds are way too cumbersome these days.
I think I saw other comments saying that it is coming eventually just not yet
Ford is working on it. Hopefully we will see it in the next month or so because I have 2 - 2k mile road trips coming up and would rather just automatically route rather than use my own work around. But it gets us by for now.
been with tesla since my 2012 model s in 2016 . The real joy was my 2016 in in 17. The nav just worked even back then. When you showed us the automatic and it was routing you to level 2 chargers i was WTF! Like you i now have a 23 lighting Lariat big battery and am loving it but the nav is such a POS. I bought it from a dealer 400 miles away and had to do my own nav all the way home as it was trying to get me to very slow chargers along the way. Thanks God i had the lectron adapter so i was able to use 2 tesla stops in route for quick top offs. Ford really needs to get its stuff together with the nav! its horrific. Now to be honest this thanksgiving we will take our f150 from OK to AL and i will be using tesla all the way there and back. Its amazing how spoiled i am having been with a tesla for the past 8 years. Just works. The only reason i got the f150 was because it can use the NACS network. Had it not i was going with a Rivian. Your video here was awesome and thank you! But it should figure this crap out by itself. Again my tesla has been doing it since 2016 ( probably earlier!) EA is just such a crap shoot if its going to work or not. Chargepoint normally works but they are so slow! Anyway... thanks for this. I tend to just input one at a time but i hope ford sees this video and in utter shame they fix it to where its smarter .
Your right, tesla has the software side down much better than Ford at this point. I drove from Kansas to NC pulling a trailer and its not bad going I-40 through Memphis and down to Alabama. The stretch from Memphis to Birmingham is sketchy pulling trailer but empty it would have been easy.
Conclusion: keep your EV local and buy or rent a gas vehicle for long trips lol that might make more sense
That's definitely one way to look at it. For me, I am not going back to gasoline. Truck is way to comfortable and powerful. I will deal with charging every 3-4 hrs. of driving for the benefits it gives me. But to each their own.
@@MartinRebuilds-fz1ep The way I look at it is this. I used to drive a Ram 3500 Hemi. One a road trip towing an Airstream, I never drove more than 3 hours at a time anyway.For me, I just got too tired. I'm about to get a Lightning Flash, and while I don't plan on towing with it, if I were to do a road trip with it, charging every three hours is not that big a deal. Thanks for the informative video!
LMAO, dude. Do I need to take a college class to learn this method? I guess you didn't say it was going to be easy. But your method is a complete joke.
If you have a better way, feel free.
@@MartinRebuilds-fz1ep yes, better way...
Find Tesla Superchargers with FordPass 5.X
Open FordPass.
Tap on Energy.
Select Public Charging from the Charge section. A list of nearby chargers will display. Tesla Superchargers are labeled "Adapter Needed". Incompatible Tesla Superchargers will be marked as "Station Not Compatible".
Find Tesla Superchargers with FordPass 5.X
Open FordPass.
Tap on Energy.
Select Public Charging from the Charge section. A list of nearby chargers will display. Tesla Superchargers are labeled "Adapter Needed". Incompatible Tesla Superchargers will be marked as "Station Not Compatible".
Or just use your phone….
Yep, google maps works fine until you need to charge, then its a mess! There is a reason I don't use my phone when road tripping my lightning. Apple carplay will route you to chargers but I am NOT an apple fan.
or u can leave ur truck at home and take the harley and go haha
Right tool for the right job, and sometimes the Harley is it!