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I dd a 1700 mile trip this past summer, much of which in 90+ degree sunny weather. I did not experience any noticeable impact in my range or efficiency from the AC cooling the battery. I can safely say it would have been a miserable trip if I had to camp for 40 minutes at every stop. And yes...

The charging curve on any 800V HMG vehicle is still better than the Lightning's charging curve. Lightning with larger battery takes almost 40 minutes to charge from 10% to 80%. EV6 takes 18 minutes. Average speed during that time is 139kW vs 173kW. The Lightning is not terrible, but it is...

The longer they go without mentioning specs, the more I suspect that a big omission to hit that price point is going to be decent DC charging speeds.

That's exactly what it would be for me. We don't have TOU rates here, but it would be nice to be able to power my home in an emergency. Though 10kW won't run my heat pump resistive heating elements, even just being able to run the heat pump itself plus a couple space heaters would make a HUGE...

I can't even imagine the amount of money Tesla would demand for this, considering what a premium they charge for "FSD" for their own customers.

Compared to the competition, the current iteration of BlueCruise seems lackluster. It does not provide much more than the ADAS systems most cars now have. The main problem as I see it is that Ford has chosen to limit BlueCruise only to mapped limited-access highways (interstates and some very...

I think it's necessary for the efficiency gains they're hoping for. Higher ground clearance = lower efficiency. What's bothering me is these tires look very low profile when compared to that Mazda. I hate low profile tires. Give me smaller wheels.

If they did have two charging ports, this is the only way I'd consider it to be a benefit. A full-featured NACS port plus a J1772 port would have real value. But not a J1772 with a gimped NACS port. To my knowledge, every vehicle with this setup today has it to avoid the cost of implementing...

Many public Level 2 EVSEs you might encounter are NACS. Every single hotel I have ever been to has had a Tesla wall connector. The few hotels I have been to with J1772 it has been in disrepair and non-operational. I maintain that not being able to do AC on the NACS port is a huge anti-feature...

You don't want this. This is an anti-feature. The J1772 can't do CCS (DCFC), only AC charging. More importantly, the NACS side can't do AC charging - it can only do DC charging.

Got it - so it's more of a limitation of the power output of the onboard AC inverter? That would make more sense to me - the battery should be more than capable, but the inverter is probably a bottleneck. My EV6 can't do more than 120v 16A due to the inverter, so it's not usable as a home backup.

Can you elaborate on this? Under acceleration, my EV6 pulls north of 200kW. Thats about 10x more the peak inrush power needed to start a home AC compressor.

I don't doubt it. 800V components still seem expensive, at least in North America. Many Chinese EVs are on high voltage systems now, so I imagine things are a bit different over there. Would have been nice if Ford could have figured out the split pack thing and had the best of both worlds...

I wonder how much added weight is caused by the 400v wiring vs 800v. Lower voltage = higher amperage = needs thicker wiring. Edit: To sorta answer my own question, it is documented that Porsche saved approximately 66lbs of weight by using 800V architecture instead of 400V.

DC fast charging speed is what's going to make or break my purchase decision on this. I like everything else I've heard, but the Fathom will need to do 10-80% in 25 minutes or less on the big (300+mi) battery option for me to pull the trigger. On a small ~200mi range battery it would need to be...

That's the conventional wisdom, but the EGMP vehicles with 220kW+ charging speeds seem to be doing just fine for battery longevity despite charging at ~3C. I think the concern is overblown

Based on your summary that's a lot less than what I expected based on the prior articles about it. https://fordauthority.com/2026/06/ford-universal-ev-platform-designed-for-efficient-charging/ - it is stated that it would have added another 20% to the cost of the project. Personally, my...

They did answer that part in an earlier article - it was a cost thing. They said it would have raised cost roughly 20%. Though I don't really understand how it would make the entire vehicle that much more expensive if they just did a split pack or something.

I do a lot of 10-20 hour drives. To me, a 35-40 minute charging time is a lot more irritating than a 15-20 minute charging time. 15-20 minutes is the perfect amount of time for me to go into a Sheetz, use the restroom, grab a quick bite, and be done in time to be on the road again. Over a...

I hate the answer to the megawatt charging question (actually I hate the question too, it was a dumb question). We all know it's going to be 400V and it's not going to have that. But will it charge faster than most other 400V vehicles, like the Rivian R2? Or is it going to be glacially slow...