How To: Enable Power Meter on Non-GT Mach E

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That certainly appears to be the case. ?

I still think this is the only plugin car in existence that doesn't show the driver when it's using power and when it's generating power.
Bummer. I'm a 2021 Job1 and I'm showing LU5T-10F906-BA as well so guess this wouldn't work for me either. Hopefully it'll be included in some update in the future.
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Yeah I tried it on my 12/2020 built CA Rt1 (the parameter was there and able to change).

It didn't work (of course I didn't check the module version # before disconnecting my OBDLink).

As far as I know my car is up to date with all the OTA's (2.8.3 was the last one I got).
 

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That certainly appears to be the case. ?

I still think this is the only plugin car in existence that doesn't show the driver when it's using power and when it's generating power.
This is one of those little things that you think doesn't matter but would be great to see, mostly on the side of showing regen. It's especially annoying to know that it is there for the GT models but not my regular Premium. If I can see feedback that what I'm doing is positive in creating more regen then I will do that, leading to more efficiency. As of right now it's just a guessing game.
 

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Test drove the lightening today. It has a beautiful power meter. Wish we could get that one.
The Lightning has a substantially better IPC in general (IMHO). It's a larger, higher resolution display, which helps. But I'm still salty that I feel like the IPC is in some ways a step down from the 2013 Fusion Energi.

That's not to say it's terrible - just that it could be better.
 


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This is one of those little things that you think doesn't matter but would be great to see, mostly on the side of showing regen. It's especially annoying to know that it is there for the GT models but not my regular Premium. If I can see feedback that what I'm doing is positive in creating more regen then I will do that, leading to more efficiency. As of right now it's just a guessing game.
Then go ahead and get FORScan and enable it!
 

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The Lightning has a substantially better IPC in general (IMHO). It's a larger, higher resolution display, which helps. But I'm still salty that I feel like the IPC is in some ways a step down from the 2013 Fusion Energi.

That's not to say it's terrible - just that it could be better.
Yeah the 2013 Focus Electric had a much better IPC than the Mach-E!
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Yeah the 2013 Focus Electric had a much better IPC than the Mach-E!
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All of Fords previous plug ins/hybrids and of course the FFE had better driver info on energy consumption. I liked the climate output in my FFE and Fusion Energi. I could tell if it was kicking the heater on needlessly. At least you can turn the heater off without adjusting the temp in the MME.
 

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This is one of the great mysteries about the design of this car. They took things like pumps from existing cars, but decided to eliminate features that should be easy to provide that have existed for years. I don't get it.
 

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Then go ahead and get FORScan and enable it!
I really want this, but I don't want to give money to a Russian entity (politics, sorry). So I'll probably see if I can figure out how to do it with something like python-can.

Unfortunately I haven't found a ton of useful info on the Ford CANBus so far. probably because everyone just uses forscan....
 

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I really want this, but I don't want to give money to a Russian entity (politics, sorry). So I'll probably see if I can figure out how to do it with something like python-can.

Unfortunately I haven't found a ton of useful info on the Ford CANBus so far. probably because everyone just uses forscan....
You can get a free 2 month license to FORScan without paying anything--its how I tried it.
 

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I just checked some VINs and there are definitely several different versions of IPC software out there. None of these show any IPC updates available in FDRS. The Job 1 software version is completely different than the others. All but the GTPE are Premium trim.

2021 Job1 - LU5T-10F906-BA
2021 Job2 - LJ8T-14C026-BR
2021 GTPE - LJ8T-14C026-MS
2022 Job1 - LJ8T-14C026-MT
Im a 21 Job1 with LU5T-10F906-AA but I am in the UK. Doubt it would work for me.
Im fully up to date on FDRS modules.
 

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Job 1 2021. Did not work :(
 
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I really want this, but I don't want to give money to a Russian entity (politics, sorry). So I'll probably see if I can figure out how to do it with something like python-can.

Unfortunately I haven't found a ton of useful info on the Ford CANBus so far. probably because everyone just uses forscan....
Just get the 2 month free trial. I'd give these guys money though they do great things for the Ford community and have for over a decade. Sucks what they are tied to though, I get the sentiment.
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