The 2024s might have it already from the factory, but I presume the functionality will be coming to all Mach-E's eventually. The update might be called something different for '23s and '24s.
Yesterday was the first time I had tried to use the Public Charging app. I recently have received my adapter and thought I would try out a Supercharger for the first time. I knew I had a couple Superchargers ahead, so I thought I would use the app to pick one. That’s when I discovered it won’t work while moving. Unbelievable! Anyway, my last update was May, and it is 6.14.0. I’ll be watching for 10.1.0.I’m not sure when this changed (EDIT: requires 10.1.0 OTA), but the Public Charging app (formerly known as Charge Assist) now works while driving! ?This makes the app finally useful! For those who don’t know, the Public Charging app is the easiest way to find nearby chargers and check real-time availability right from the screen. You can see how many stalls are occupied while on the road. It’s also currently the only way to locate NACS-compatible Tesla Superchargers and navigate to them directly from the touchscreen (aside from using ABRP via CarPlay). Plus, you can activate an in-network charger, so you don’t have to pull out your phone—very handy for networks like ChargePoint and Blink that don’t support Plug & Charge.
With this change, everything in the app works while driving, except for the keyboard and the 'I'm Here Now' button for activating chargers. For me, the most important feature is being able to easily check the availability of nearby chargers while on the road, so I can reroute early if needed. I like to monitor how full a charger is as I approach. Additionally, this feature makes it easy to switch between Public Charging and your CarPlay or navigation app to check the status without interrupting your navigation.
Great job to Ford for successfully getting this through legal and enabling the app to work while driving with almost full functionality. We've been advocating for this change since the beginning. The previous motion lock significantly limited the app's usefulness for EV routing, that's gone now.
One important point is that en-route battery preconditioning still doesn't activate if you input the charger through the Public Charging app (since the POI type isn't recognized as a charger). To make it work, you need to search for the charger using Ford's navigation system. Unfortunately, NACS Superchargers aren't included in Ford's navigation yet, so it's still impossible to precondition for a NACS Supercharger; only Magic Dock locations are currently available.
Before you deem a product worthless, you might want to get your units right. It’s hard to take your grand pronouncements seriously when your statements don’t even make sense.
Kilowatt hour or kWh , https://www.inchcalculator.com/electric-vehicle-charging-cost-calculator/
Yes, I know, I tried all the options. On the first day of my trip I was able to find useful chargers, a 150 kWh ford pro at a Dutro Ford (.70/kWh, one out of four worked , and not accessible after hours, the employees were all very helpful and I got a free car wash!) and then a Tesla charger(.41 /kWh). The next day on the way home, I topped off at a free charger at a museum, then about 3/4 of the way home it left me with choices of low wattage level 2 chargers. I pulled into a Sheetz station and while finding a place to park, I spotted the Tesla chargers(.41/kWh) in the back of the store and I was able to plug and charge. I suspect it was the bad cell coverage of AT&T or worse a competitive deletion. The total lack of highway signage for charging is also a problem, I think 100kWh or better should be posted along with gas pumps, then you wouldn’t have to totally rely on cell coverage and crappy apps.
Cute. Even with that you don't realize that chargers are rated in kW, not kWh?
Hey, if want support Ford putting out a trash product, I can’t stop you. So keep on cherry picking peoples posts to pump up that narcissistic personality!
This is great news. I thought when I got the public charging app what you were talking about would be working, but I just tried it while I was driving and it doesn’t work so I guess there’s another update coming to make that work, I assumed it would work when you got the public charging?I’m not sure when this changed (EDIT: requires 10.1.0 OTA), but the Public Charging app (formerly known as Charge Assist) now works while driving! ?
With this change, everything in the app works while driving, except for the keyboard and the 'I'm Here Now' button for activating chargers. For me, the most important feature is being able to easily check the availability of nearby chargers while on the road, so I can reroute early if needed. I like to monitor how full a charger is as I approach. Additionally, this feature makes it easy to switch between Public Charging and your CarPlay or navigation app to check the status without interrupting your navigation.
Great job to Ford for successfully getting this through legal and enabling the app to work while driving with almost full functionality. We've been advocating for this change since the beginning. The previous motion lock significantly limited the app's usefulness for EV routing, that's gone now.
One important point is that en-route battery preconditioning still doesn't activate if you input the charger through the Public Charging app (since the POI type isn't recognized as a charger). To make it work, you need to search for the charger using Ford's navigation system. Unfortunately, NACS Superchargers aren't included in Ford's navigation yet, so it's still impossible to precondition for a NACS Supercharger; only Magic Dock locations are currently available.
I’m with @ChasingCoral
@ChasingCoral is neither cherry picking nor behaving narcissistically. He is correct that you had the unit rate for charging wrong. And I agree with him that it was likely user error that resulted in you only being able to find slow chargers.
I remember something about "by the end of the year".
You assume that everyone has the eye monitor. Mine does not as it is a early job one. Just the touch sensors in the wheel.
I was using the older terminology, I guess, where "BlueCruise" meant what they now call "BlueCruise Hands-Free." That sentence wouldn't apply to your car, as it is not equipped. Also, it was just a suggestion. Ford isn't doing it that way.
