Ford Power-up 4.2.6

[mkhuffman]

FYI it looks like intelligent range is actually turned on now. You may sometimes notice corrections when entering a destination in the Ford nav.

Today I confirmed this is active in my car. When starting the car at 100%, it indicated 252 miles of range. I entered the destination and hit start - still 252 miles of range. After driving for a couple minutes, range dropped to 225 miles. It worked!

After the range dropped, I checked the charge at destination:

About a third of the way into the trip it made a big adjustment, I assume based on my speed for the first third.

I arrived at my destination with 37% remaining.

This is a huge improvement over the way it used to work. Great job, Ford!

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[cbcasas]

2021 J1, non-EA. This update just attempted to install but failed. Any tips?

 

[cbcasas]

2021 J1, non-EA. This update just attempted to install but failed. Any tips?

Odd fix but I was able to successfully update after 2 failures. I noticed the time in my Mach-E was ahead by ~30 minutes. Somehow the clock setting turned off auto. Switched it to auto, time updated, then hit the update button and it successfully updated. Didn’t do anything else.

 

[Pibe38]

2022 Premium, EA waitlisted.

Got the DC Fast Charging update 2 days ago and 4.2.6 today.

 

[Electricponi]

2022 GT, Non EA, 4.2.6 updated today OTA while sitting in vehicle, PAAK in range. Zero issues, 11 mins total. Vehicle was not on Wi-Fi. Pre update range 77% 177 miles. Post update 77% 196 miles.

 

[TheSleepyDad]

Non-EA 2021, got this update yesterday. Wanted to share something interesting I haven't seen mentioned... [Note: I also previously got the customer satisfaction update since I last charged, so not sure which update caused this]

My home charging (ChargePoint Home Flex) graphs prior to this update have always been a nice flat 11kW, but last night there were regular rate dips. Check out the comparison pics.

Plugged in at 9:52 and the dips all registered on ChargePoint's logs (which seem to update every 5-10 mins) at 10:32, 11:02, 12:02, 1:02, 1:37, and 2:02.

Previous charge session of similar-ish length:

Last night's charge session:

All the dips go down to 7.3kW except for the single larger one which was 6.4kW.

 

[CarGuy11]

Got it today. Aug built '22.

 

[ebeponyan]

FYI it looks like intelligent range is actually turned on now. You may sometimes notice corrections when entering a destination in the Ford nav.

Today I confirmed this is active in my car. When starting the car at 100%, it indicated 252 miles of range. I entered the destination and hit start - still 252 miles of range. After driving for a couple minutes, range dropped to 225 miles. It worked!

After the range dropped, I checked the charge at destination:

About a third of the way into the trip it made a big adjustment, I assume based on my speed for the first third.

I arrived at my destination with 37% remaining.

This is a huge improvement over the way it used to work. Great job, Ford!

When it works, it works better than before, but I've also noticed it pretty dramatically not working a handful of times over the last week or so, and that has only increased my distrust of the GOM.

Put into general terms:

• Navigate A -> B -> C
• Initial adjustment shows realistic arrival percentages for B and C factoring elevation and speed.
• Arrive at B near to the predicted SoC, get out of car.
• Turn car back on, remaining range decreases by 2/3 immediately down to 40mi at 43% for a mountainous but mostly downhill 50mi journey.
• IPC flashes low battery warning (sub 50mi) and Nav pops up an alert asserting no chargers are within range.
• The GOM never really recovers and ends up showing 38mi when I arrive at C with 23% SoC after 50mi of driving.
• GOM still shows ~1.5mi/kWh equivalent after charging back to 100% overnight.

And just a couple days ago:

• Navigate to A (10 miles away, highway speeds, slight decline).
• GOM range drops over 100mi to 124mi at 84% for a 10 mile trip.
• Arrive at A with 82% having averaged 3.7mi/kWh.
• GOM remains in clown mode until I enter and clear navigation destinations a couple of times.

 

[MachEnthusiast]

I'm still so frustrated how hard it is to get any inhibit update on my car. Every time because of the 12V battery. At least I have a workaround now. But the workaround of "turning my car on and letting it run for 3 hours in my driveway" is a terrible, unacceptable workaround. And I wouldn't have even figured that out without help on this forum.

@Ford Motor Company as far as I'm concerned this is the biggest software-related issue you need to figure out, and it plagues a lot of people with this car who don't drive long commutes. Just read this thread. And the car gives no feedback as to what is wrong or how to fix it. Just that you tried and failed to install an update.

BTW, still waiting for 4.2.6 after spending 3 days trying and failing to install 23-PU0105-DC-CHG2 cause I didn't run it in my driveway long enough. 3 hours seems to consistently be the amount of time I need. Anything short of that and I might as well not try. I'm about to invest in something to charge that battery, and that's a pretty big waste of money for something that should "just work."

 

[HarrisonFord]

My 2021 Job 1 Select (non EA) successfully installed 4.2.6 this morning after being on the charger all night. This was its first attempt at 4.2.6. I received 23-PU0105-DC-CHG2 two days ago.

Previous OTA timeline:
3.6.1 Nov 14th '22
3.6.2 Jan 19th '23
4.1.1 Jan 23rd '23
4.1.2 Jan 24th '23
4.1.3 Feb 3rd '23
4.2.1 Mar 18th '23
4.2.2 Mar 22nd '23
4.2.3 Mar 30th '23
4.2.4 Apr 4th '23
4.2.5 May 9th '23
23-PU0105-DC-CHG2 Jun 7th '23
4.2.6 Jun 9th '23

They keep rolling in. ?

 

[mkhuffman]

I'm still so frustrated how hard it is to get any inhibit update on my car. Every time because of the 12V battery. At least I have a workaround now. But the workaround of "turning my car on and letting it run for 3 hours in my driveway" is a terrible, unacceptable workaround. And I wouldn't have even figured that out without help on this forum.

@Ford Motor Company as far as I'm concerned this is the biggest software-related issue you need to figure out, and it plagues a lot of people with this car who don't drive long commutes. Just read this thread. And the car gives no feedback as to what is wrong or how to fix it. Just that you tried and failed to install an update.

BTW, still waiting for 4.2.6 after spending 3 days trying and failing to install 23-PU0105-DC-CHG2 cause I didn't run it in my driveway long enough. 3 hours seems to consistently be the amount of time I need. Anything short of that and I might as well not try. I'm about to invest in something to charge that battery, and that's a pretty big waste of money for something that should "just work."

I highly recommend you recondition your LVB. I am doing this to mine as maintenance once a year. I don't know if this will help you or not, but a healthy LVB is probably going to improve your chances.

Here is Lee's awesome post:
https://www.macheforum.com/site/threads/how-to-recondition-service-your-12v-battery.11069/

 

[MachEnthusiast]

I highly recommend you recondition your LVB. I am doing this to mine as maintenance once a year. I don't know if this will help you or not, but a healthy LVB is probably going to improve your chances.

Here is Lee's awesome post:
https://www.macheforum.com/site/threads/how-to-recondition-service-your-12v-battery.11069/

Thanks for the link. I'll try to give it a read over the weekend. It looks very involved, though. And I'm hardly the enthusiast many on this forum are. I am a software developer, but I kind of hate dealing with technology when I'm outside of work, and I never do anything on my car that isn't normal expected use cases. That said, I won't judge it till I've read the guide in depth.

 

[Mach-Lee]

Thanks for the link. I'll try to give it a read over the weekend. It looks very involved, though. And I'm hardly the enthusiast many on this forum are. I am a software developer, but I kind of hate dealing with technology when I'm outside of work, and I never do anything on my car that isn't normal expected use cases. That said, I won't judge it till I've read the guide in depth.

Not really, you essentially just need to connect a battery charger for 48+ hours.

 

[kennethjk]

Not really, you essentially just need to connect a battery charger for 48+ hours.

Do you think a trickle charger will help Like C Tek?

 

[vinny2487]

Job 1 April 2021 build. Installed a couple days ago after failing overnight the three previous nights. I drove around for 20 minutes, parked and tapped the "install now" button and locked the doors. After my workout, came out to the car to a successful install.

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