Charge port at front, passenger side

[SpaceEVDriver]

Please don't fall for the hype about the rear driver side being the best place for the charge port. It's far more useful to have it at the front passenger side.
It still makes it easy to use the NACS chargers with their super short cables. With it being in the front passenger, only one NACS post is used while charging, and it also enables charging without always having to drop a trailer. A rear port makes towing a far more painful experience. For a vehicle with towing capability, a front positioned port is best. For a tow vehicle with a NACS port, the front passenger port is the only sensible position.

 

[dreamweaver]

Here’s another look, seems the fuel tank is in the front. By the filler neck. The fuel tank is towards the front, and the battery is towards the back. Is what’s been shown. Still the same size frunk. And I believe from what Scott has said it’s about a 15 Gallon tank.

Nice find. Thank you for the post.

 

[ChasingCoral]

Charge ports in the rear of a vehicle SUCKS for towing. If the Scout stays with rear charge ports, I'll drop my reservation as I need the Terra to tow.

We pulled our 25' travel trailer across the country and back behind our Ford F-150 Lightning in 2023 before we had access to Tesla Superchargers. Even in that first trip we had to drop the trailer at less than 10% of our DCFC sessions.

Since gaining access to Superchargers in February 2024, we've towed the trailer from Maryland to Texas and back, a trip up to Wisconsin and through the Great Lakes including Ontario, and two trips through the southeast as far as northern Florida. I can count on one hand the number of times we've had to drop the trailer.

The Lightning has the charge port on the front left. Clearly the front right would be more versatile at Tesla Superchargers.

Unfortunately, I can also count on one hand the number of times I've charged at actual pull-through chargers. There have been a number of quasi-pull through chargers where it is possible to pull the trailer in. Usually, the trailer is sticking out into parking lot driving lanes.

I've contemplated switching to a Silverado or Sierra EV but the left-rear charge port rules them out. Tesla even made this mistake with the Cybertruck. The only EV truck on the market now that has the charge port in the right place is the Rivian R1-T.

 

[mastertroll]

Please don't fall for the hype about the rear driver side being the best place for the charge port. It's far more useful to have it at the front passenger side.
It still makes it easy to use the NACS chargers with their super short cables. With it being in the front passenger, only one NACS post is used while charging, and it also enables charging without always having to drop a trailer. A rear port makes towing a far more painful experience. For a vehicle with towing capability, a front positioned port is best. For a tow vehicle with a NACS port, the front passenger port is the only sensible position.

It would be nice to have it on the front middle or front back for ease of use.. but ya

 

[ChasingCoral]

It would be nice to have it on the front middle or front back for ease of use.. but ya

Front back?

 

[THil08]

Charge ports in the rear of a vehicle SUCKS for towing. If the Scout stays with rear charge ports, I'll drop my reservation as I need the Terra to tow.

We pulled our 25' travel trailer across the country and back behind our Ford F-150 Lightning in 2023 before we had access to Tesla Superchargers. Even in that first trip we had to drop the trailer at less than 10% of our DCFC sessions.

Since gaining access to Superchargers in February 2024, we've towed the trailer from Maryland to Texas and back, a trip up to Wisconsin and through the Great Lakes including Ontario, and two trips through the southeast as far as northern Florida. I can count on one hand the number of times we've had to drop the trailer.

The Lightning has the charge port on the front left. Clearly the front right would be more versatile at Tesla Superchargers.

Unfortunately, I can also count on one hand the number of times I've charged at actual pull-through chargers. There have been a number of quasi-pull through chargers where it is possible to pull the trailer in. Usually, the trailer is sticking out into parking lot driving lanes.

I've contemplated switching to a Silverado or Sierra EV but the left-rear charge port rules them out. Tesla even made this mistake with the Cybertruck. The only EV truck on the market now that has the charge port in the right place is the Rivian R1-T.

see normally i would be like don't drop. but i need my position to continue to creep up. so you do you.

 

[mastertroll]

Front back?

Lol.. that's what @#$#@@@ sleep does.

 

[SpaceEVDriver]

Charge ports in the rear of a vehicle SUCKS for towing. If the Scout stays with rear charge ports, I'll drop my reservation as I need the Terra to tow.

This, to me, is even more important than tow capacity rating. I have only towed 10,000 pounds or more a couple dozen times in 40 years. I’ve towed less too many times to count.

I can’t replace the Lightning with any other truck because of the charge port location and because of the weird decisions related to how other vehicles behave when you get out of the vehicle without shutting it off.

 

[mastertroll]

This, to me, is even more important than tow capacity rating. I have only towed 10,000 pounds or more a couple dozen times in 40 years. I’ve towed less too many times to count.

I can’t replace the Lightning with any other truck because of the charge port location and because of the weird decisions related to how other vehicles behave when you get out of the vehicle without shutting it off.

I'm with you man. I chose the lightning over the Silverado EV even though that vehicle goes a lot further.. I can't fit in it. There's actually more space in the lightning because it's a full size truck. That's one thing I can say. Ford did right. They didn't try to to narrow in curves for a few extra miles