Drive for two hours - Charge for an hour road trip.

[Mandretti]

Fortunately, I’m not in a hurry, retired so everything’s fine. Right now I’m charging at a Safeway at 6 1/2 kWh. It’ll be done in four days…..

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[Mandretti]

Faster than 65mph will also kill your range, more so in the winter with the heater running.
80 mph in 35 degrees with comfy heat? A 175 kwh battery might get closer to 300/325 miles of range

I’ve never gotten more than 230 out of this car

 

[Mirak]

On a 350 mile freeway road trip in 35 degree weather I’m getting less than 2 miles for each percent charge. This means I’m super charging for 45 minutes at 75 kWh (on a 350 charger) for every 2 hours of driving. Add in the time to divert to a charger, find one that’s actually working (trying 3 to get 1 to work ), available, connect and start charging, it’s more like drive for two hours and handle charging for an hour in a Walmart parking lot.. And spend 15 minutes to find a charger on 3 different apps….

Stressful.

Lesson learned - use the Subaru for road trips!

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LIES!!!! Everybody knows it is EASY to road-trip in the Mach E! All it takes is “a little planning.”

 

[Mach-Lee]

Sounds like you left with a cold battery.

Remember to turn HVAC off while DC charging, and route to the charger using the Ford Nav so the battery preconditions. Warming up the battery will significantly increase charging speeds. The battery will not warm up from driving alone.

 

[Mirak]

I've taken several 2,000 mile (round trip) road trips in the Mach-E. It's an excellent road trip car if you plan ahead.

Um, relative to what? Certainly not as compared to any comfortable ICE. And not as compared to more efficient Teslas or 800v EVs, either.

Relatively speaking, the Mach E is one of the crappier road tripping cars.

 

[moparguy]

I have the same spec Mach-E. Curious how your pre-trip planning compared to the actual results? Were you able to use the charging locations you planned to use? Did you hit your SOC estimates for each stop according to A Better Route Planner or the onboard Navigation?

On one of my Los Angeles visits, I had to stop at 3 different EA locations to find a working charger, 1st location had one charger available, didn't work, 2nd charging location all 4 chargers were working but at the speed of 1-2kw/h so will take me two days to charge, they show working on the app but they are not, 3rd charger was fine, wasted 40 mins of my time and took me another 40 mins to charge my car.

 

[1969Camaro]

On a 350 mile freeway road trip in 35 degree weather I’m getting less than 2 miles for each percent charge. This means I’m super charging for 45 minutes at 75 kWh (on a 350 charger) for every 2 hours of driving. Add in the time to divert to a charger, find one that’s actually working (trying 3 to get 1 to work ), available, connect and start charging, it’s more like drive for two hours and handle charging for an hour in a Walmart parking lot.. And spend 15 minutes to find a charger on 3 different apps….

Stressful.

Lesson learned - use the Subaru for road trips!

2021 Premium AWD Ext

We had a similar experience and will not take on long trips until infrastructure is there.

 

[moparguy]

Um, relative to what? Certainly not as compared to any comfortable ICE. And not as compared to more efficient Teslas or 800v EVs, either.

Relatively speaking, the Mach E is one of the crappier road tripping cars.

The crappiest would be a Chevy Bolt or Hyundai Kona, after those would be the Mach E, specially select trim, I average 65kwh charging most of the times, I've never seen anything above 100, it took me 40 minutes to charge same kwh as an Ioniq5, except that the Ioniq5 needed only 20 minutes!

 

[Mandretti]

The infrastructure is not there yet, don't know how many years it will take but as of now you are correct, it is not there yet to be able to find a working charger and charge at will

Recently, I had an issue with a Electrify America set of chargers were all 6 of them were out of commission. So I called technical support and they were very apologetic and also said that they were dramatically increasing the number and quality of chargers over the next few years then I read about that they were actually going to do and it was going to be a drop in the bucket in terms of what we actually need. Also, true of the federal government program and state and local programs probably 1/10 of what we’re actually going to need in the next few years.

 

[grinder]

The heat pump can't come soon enough. 35 degrees is not that cold.

 

[Mandretti]

Good if I had to do it all over again, I would not have bought this car. I really love it and enjoy driving it, but I realize that given the situation with infrastructure and battery capacity that these cars are really most suitable for just driving around town and short trips and I didn’t need an expensive SUV type vehicle to do that. I was actually thinking about selling this and buying a smaller around town EV but the depreciation on this plus the expense of a used it didn’t make much financial sense.

 

[superdave80]

And spend 15 minutes to find a charger on 3 different apps….

I use Plugshare, and it makes life way easier. I've done several road trips of a similar length, and it's worked fine. The one time I had an issue on the many trips I've taken was my fault for not listening to the Plugshare reviews and trying to push out my charging stop too far. ("New chargers? People reporting problems and low speeds? Eh, I'm sure that they've worked out the issues and it will be fine...")

 

[azerik]

Sounds like you left with a cold battery.

Remember to turn HVAC off while DC charging, and route to the charger using the Ford Nav so the battery preconditions. Warming up the battery will significantly increase charging speeds. The battery will not warm up from driving alone.

I have a question about this, because every time I'v tried to plug into a DCFC with the car running it shut off on me. (And I'd get a charger fault) am i just lucky in that I can't have my car running while charing in the first place?

 

[1969Camaro]

Good if I had to do it all over again, I would not have bought this car. I really love it and enjoy driving it, but I realize that given the situation with infrastructure and battery capacity that these cars are really most suitable for just driving around town and short trips and I didn’t need an expensive SUV type vehicle to do that. I was actually thinking about selling this and buying a smaller around town EV but the depreciation on this plus the expense of a used it didn’t make much financial sense.

Abosultely perfect for around town and home charging. Why would anyone want to plan and have muliple back-up plans to take this on a long trip. Sometimes no matter how well you plan the distance between chargers is very long 100 miles +. And if the primary and back-up is broken your stuck. or waiting for hours on end in line to use the one that is working. Labor day weekend Quartzite AZ perfect example.

 

[Mach-Lee]

I have a question about this, because every time I'v tried to plug into a DCFC with the car running it shut off on me. (And I'd get a charger fault) am i just lucky in that I can't have my car running while charing in the first place?

You should be able to plug into DCFC while the car is on, and it should start charging while the car stays on. If yours isn’t working, you probably need the OBCC module update.

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