Bjorn's calculations seem pretty solid. It's 3-4kWh that he's coming up short by, so like 4% or something. It's a buffer on top of a buffer? Kind of weird.
Nobody said 100% all the time. But if it can't ever DCFC to 100% *EVER* then it really doesn't have a 100% capacity. Tesla allows you to go up to 100% when you need to, and it will Supercharge all the way up there. Tesla charges at 98% faster than Mach-E charges at 80%.
Exactly this.
I really like how ABRP lets you tweak the plan as well - you can adjust the charging levels at various stops to accomodate meal breaks and then non-meal stops. I've mapped out several road trips, adding more charging time in some locations for lunch/dinner which then decreases the time at the next stop. Of course, since the next stop starts at a lower SOC and the meal stop is at a larger SOC the total time goes up a little, but it's a reasonable compromise. It gives you a reason to actually get out of the car, walk a little, and eat a more leisurely meal rather than wolfing down a burger while you're driving.
I think they will. They're going to want to gather lots of data first, though.
My car is great. It's one of the most efficient EVs on the market. Better than Tesla. It just has a tiny battery. It makes complete sense why they say no to 100% fast charging.
While I really only intended to use the mach-e for local journeys and the daily commute so will be charging overnight, one would hope that ford improves the charge characteristics and that the current set up is them just a result of being extremely conservative and once they start to get data on charging from users will make the much needed and necessary adjustments, otherwise long term it won't look good for anyone that wants to road trip a GT performance with its projected 235 mile range as you will be spending an awful lot of time short hopping between chargers.
Until there's fast & reliable charging stops available at least every 50 miles on freeways, we really need faster access to that final 20% of the capacity.
One of my work colleagues gave up using their model 3 on long road trips a few years back and reverted to the family hybrid, due to the fact that when they ventured out to visit relatives when traveling on the interstates despite how well placed the superchargers are there would be a couple of spots where you either had to drop your speed to way below the flow of traffic or have to charge up above 80% to reach the next super charger, and that is with tesla charging speeds and driving range they found the short hops between chargers worked better if a bit tedious.
He had another charging session earlier in the day where he went from 4% to past 80%. It took awhile to ramp up when he first plugged in but the slice of the session from 10% to 80% was 42 minutes.
Ford sure nailed the timing of it. I think we all see that it could do more but doesn't. Maybe that's the "problem." When I see Tom plugin at 43% and get 150kW, I want the MME to hold near that 150kW from 5% all the way to 43%. If it did, it would be a road trip beast.
