JamieGeek
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Except at some point someone will disassemble the car or reverse engineer the messages on the network and discover the "true" battery capacity.There is a bit of marketing involved too. My Chevy Bolt has a 59 kWh battery that it lets me use but I have often argued that the capacity is arbitrarily assigned by the manufacturer. It could be a 65 kWh battery that they rate for 59 kWh.
So Ford could have called the extended range battery 99 kWh with an 11% reserve or they could have called it an 88 kWh battery with no reserve.
Thus Ford is being honest: Adding up all the cells you get 99kWh but they will only use 88kWh of it.
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