Thanks to my son...I have (we have!) a Mach-E after just 24 hours and 800 miles

[lwilliams0514]

My 19 year son like most young is pretty computer / search engine savvy - he kept looking and found a First Edition Mach e at Vista Ford in Woodland Hills California - almost exactly 400 miles from where we live - So I called and got the salesman just as a "deal" for the car was falling apart - long and short - I said I would take it. We did a contract online the night of the 2nd, and we drove down yesterday and got the car. 800 mile road trip in a day (too crazy) - car is Carbonized Gray Metallic with black perforated activex interior with red stitching. AWD and extended range. Stopped three times on the way home to charge (first at a free Cal Trans Maintenance yard slow charger so cut it sort at 61%) and then at two fast charges - Electrify America - was able to load everything in the FordPass - my son was able to find an app that lets you know what kind of charges a site has - not sure if the mustang system lets you know the quality of the available charges but it is very good at letting you know where to find them. Here are a few pics - more info to come. Thanks

What's crazy is there are no dealers in CA listing their available MMEs on their web sites. Your son had to do some super sleuthing to find it. Congrats!

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[wmaney]

Very exciting!
Can you give us the name of the app that your son found to look up charging stations?

My son had an early class today and now back asleep recovering from our long trek yesterday - I will ask him when he gets up. You can also see what type of car last charged at the site and some reviews - with things like "...the bathrooms are close to the chargers and clean..." Have not played with the sync system long enough to see if it shows quality as well as near by charing stations (it does the latter extremely well with a long list of stations by distance and you pick one and the nav just takes you there. I'll let you know later about the app.

 

[wmaney]

What's crazy is there are no dealers in CA listing their available MMEs on their web sites. Your son had to do some super sleuthing to find it. Congrats!

Williams you are correct - can see some in Nevada and Oregon - but not CA - try Edmunds.

 

[Ravensfan1996]

Very exciting!
Can you give us the name of the app that your son found to look up charging stations?

Most likely its the Plugshare app. Great app for finding charging stations, with reviews, type charging etc. You can filter out slow chargers. Here is the online verison: https://www.plugshare.com/

 

[wmaney]

How much was the Additional Dealer Mark-up, (ADM)? Were you able to get Ford Options? Was it even offered? What about X plan? Did they offer the California Retail rebate?

Most likely its the Plugshare app. Great app for finding charging stations, with reviews, type charging etc. You can filter out slow chargers. Here is the online verison: https://www.plugshare.com/

You are probably correct - on the app - not really sure now whether he was doing the app or online site - but either way it works.

 

[Lola2004]

My 19 year son like most young is pretty computer / search engine savvy - he kept looking and found a First Edition Mach e at Vista Ford in Woodland Hills California - almost exactly 400 miles from where we live - So I called and got the salesman just as a "deal" for the car was falling apart - long and short - I said I would take it. We did a contract online the night of the 2nd, and we drove down yesterday and got the car. 800 mile road trip in a day (too crazy) - car is Carbonized Gray Metallic with black perforated activex interior with red stitching. AWD and extended range. Stopped three times on the way home to charge (first at a free Cal Trans Maintenance yard slow charger so cut it sort at 61%) and then at two fast charges - Electrify America - was able to load everything in the FordPass - my son was able to find an app that lets you know what kind of charges a site has - not sure if the mustang system lets you know the quality of the available charges but it is very good at letting you know where to find them. Here are a few pics - more info to come. Thanks

Well scored! Thanks for sharing and enjoy

 

[MurphyDog]

What's crazy is there are no dealers in CA listing their available MMEs on their web sites. Your son had to do some super sleuthing to find it. Congrats!

Frontier Ford in Santa Clara is showing 2 available
New Vehicles for Sale | Frontier Ford | in Santa Clara, serving San Jose CA

 

[lwilliams0514]

Frontier Ford in Santa Clara is showing 2 available
New Vehicles for Sale | Frontier Ford | in Santa Clara, serving San Jose CA

Yep! problem is im in socal but I have mine on order. We have the largest Ford Dealer in the world (Galpin) and they show none? I think dealers are suppressing their inventory for now (they can do that).

 

[Regularmache]

Looks like the Goldstein Family didn't take the FE they ordered. (order owner from Aug 1) production date 2020 12 05
Ship date 12/30
Decided to pass on their order, interesting and lucky for you!

 

[eltonlin]

Looks like the Goldstein Family didn't take the FE they ordered. (order owner from Aug 1) production date 2020 12 05
Ship date 12/30
Decided to pass on their order, interesting and lucky for you!

Looks like that one spent some time in Speedway jail - perhaps that was a factor...

 

[DaveHsr]

Congrats! The trip and story will no-doubt make everything about the car more memorable!

 

[JellyBelly]

Excellent congrats

 

[MrRossKeys]

Yep! problem is im in socal but I have mine on order. We have the largest Ford Dealer in the world (Galpin) and they show none? I think dealers are suppressing their inventory for now (they can do that).

I still don’t show any through the Ford Inventory webpages. Those pages are definitely suppressed as you say.

Instead, use Autotrader (web or app). I use the Autotrader app which lets you save searches, and it lists about 9 Mach E’s within 100 miles of the Bay Area.

Just searched within 50 miles of LA and it shows 60 Mach E’s available. You’ll have to narrow down which of those are demos and customer cars, but the trick I use is to contact any dealer that shows mileage on the car.

Customer order cars will not have mileage shown because no one can drive those cars. Cars available for sale will have mileage on them because of test drives etc.

Hope this helps.

 

[MrRossKeys]

Quickly scrolling thru Autotrader, it looks like DCH Ford of Thousand Oaks has the most inventory.

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[Maric]

@wmaney Curious why three stops to charge on way home? 400 mile trip. 270 mile range (depending). Were you just charging 25-50% then on the way? Being overly cautious? Driving home 120 mph?

What do you think of real world range?

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