JamieGeek
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Was watching one of the videos from the London preview when I noticed something that should be very familiar to anyone who has had a Focus Electric:
For those that don't know: A few of the Focus Electric's were notorious for completely stopping on the road with a message on the dash "Stop Safely Now". In many cases this lead to a Ford buyback of the car as no solution was ever found (the SSN thread on the Focus Electric forums is the longest running thread on the site).
Fortunately my Focus Electric never suffered the dreaded issue (and in 2013/2014 Ford did have a software update that cured about 95% of the issue).
Seeing that message popup on a Mach-E, however, does give me pause (yes I realize that he was sitting in a hand-built prototype which may have a bunch of errors as the software/hardware is developed; its also possible that a self-test was running during the demo as a bunch of other error messages showed up on the display during the video).
Edit: Watching the video more closely it does look like a self-test showing all the possible errors. In addition, its logical that Ford would use the same "error code" as the FFE for that situation...just threw me for a minute knowing the Focus Electric's history with that error.
The message shows up around the 4:40 mark in the video in this thread:
https://www.macheforum.com/site/threads/autotrader-uk-review-from-uk-launch.429/
For those that don't know: A few of the Focus Electric's were notorious for completely stopping on the road with a message on the dash "Stop Safely Now". In many cases this lead to a Ford buyback of the car as no solution was ever found (the SSN thread on the Focus Electric forums is the longest running thread on the site).
Fortunately my Focus Electric never suffered the dreaded issue (and in 2013/2014 Ford did have a software update that cured about 95% of the issue).
Seeing that message popup on a Mach-E, however, does give me pause (yes I realize that he was sitting in a hand-built prototype which may have a bunch of errors as the software/hardware is developed; its also possible that a self-test was running during the demo as a bunch of other error messages showed up on the display during the video).
Edit: Watching the video more closely it does look like a self-test showing all the possible errors. In addition, its logical that Ford would use the same "error code" as the FFE for that situation...just threw me for a minute knowing the Focus Electric's history with that error.
The message shows up around the 4:40 mark in the video in this thread:
https://www.macheforum.com/site/threads/autotrader-uk-review-from-uk-launch.429/
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