I thought maybe strapping a slice of bread with peanut butter on the top of the car would result in an inverted car and the peanut butter on the asphalt.
2020+ Escape Hybrid and 2022+ Maverick Hybrid have known issues with their undersized 12V batteries dying prematurely. I've had my Escape's 12V battery die on me. But in that case, I can pull the physical key blade out of the fob and open the driver door. Pop the hood, reach back to the interior rear driver side door handle, pull twice to open. Fold down the back seat, retrieve my lithium ion jump box. Take that under the hood, hook it up to the two jump points. And the vehicle starts right up, only takes a minute or two.
The software will buy you 12 minutes to unlock all doors after you turn off the car.
Yes. Seems to me it would be easy enough to include notification that the 12v is dead and you only have 12 minutes. Driver could then leave a door unlocked or a window open if desired.
The problem is that it does not appear the vehicle is detecting when the 12V battery is dead and initiating the 12 minute countdown. Instead, the timer would start every time you turn the car off, regardless of voltage output from the 12V battery.
Probably some combination of cost cutting and appearing more modern/advanced.
Funny, I was thinking of editing my post to include that. Yes, something to that effect that once you leave your vehicle and lock it, you will only have 12 minutes to get back in. I think the precise amount of battery left might fluctuate too much to give you an exact amount of energy/time, but maybe there's a power band that could be hit to give you that warning. At worse, even if after 12 minutes, you're still good, at least now you know the battery is in a critical state so get it replaced ASAP.
There’s not really a way to tell the 12V is dead when the car is on and DC-DC is active because then the car just thinks the 12V system is working perfectly fine. It’s not until the DC-DC converter turns off that you can see the symptoms of a dead 12V. At which point all the 12V systems are dead and won’t be able to self report that it’s dead.
Yes because any other solution would require a hard key override. This reminds me of the early reviews of Tesla. An automotive reviewer drove his Model S to a restaurant in California in the desert. When he finished his dinner he couldn't get back in to the car. He parked next to a high tension pole and the EMF was blocking the signal from his phone or his fob. I can't remember which. He had to call Tesla support and tow the car away.
The car does monitor 12V voltage and as Mach-Lee pointed out, the app should be updated soon to provide more 12V warnings if it detects abnormal readings.
this is not exactly true. The car has a door lock nanny that automatically locks the doors when the car starts moving. The doors do not unlock until you either manually unlock them or they unlock when a door lever is actuated (which is why people have to expressly unlock the doors so their kids can get in when being picked up from school). If the 12V battery has already gone kaput before the door lever is actuated, the door module retains a lock status. ??
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Then you could title the original post by @HuntingPudel “Schrödinger’s feline”, although in the context of this site “Schrödinger’s pony” is a better title.
