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For what it’s worth, I’ve been doing some ‘light’ research this past few days on future trends. Sorry if you might find this post to be one of those “OMG … this is too long, don’t read (TL/DR). We all can see that alternatives to vehicle propulsion are all growing. BEV, EREV, PHEV and even...

Saturday evening I drove through a construction zone not too far from my house (7-8 minutes more to get home!) when I got broadsided at an intersection. Fortunately, both the other driver and I were not hurt. It could have been a lot worse. Turns out his wife and toddler son, who arrived later...

The Drive (and many other pubs) just released an article about this hacking device which will probably let thieves steal your car including and up to 2025 models! Are you all over this @Ford Motor Company? This is bad on so many levels I don’t even know where or what to rant about with this...

Thought you all might like to see this article about @Ford Motor Company and its photos!

We’ve come a long way, baby. From the Museum of Innovation and Science comes this General Electric photo from 1912:

After the most recent 6.4.0 update, I often see this blue bar, which sometimes turns red depending upon the mode I am in. Does anyone else see this? Any ideas @Ford Motor Company ?

Was back in my hometown (Minneapolis) this past week and my wife and I rented a Tesla Model 3 (M3) from Hertz at the Minneapolis/St. Paul airport. During this experience, we both said that we couldn’t wait to get back to drive our Mach-e! Besides being filthy (inside and out so we had them go...

The man in front of the photo below is my great grandfather, Ole Wolla. This pic was taken in his blacksmith shop in Benson, MN, a business he later recreated in the town he and his sons migrated to in the early 1900s: Tioga, ND. I recall my grandpa telling me about his dad and how “his shop...

Stumbled across this video today and thought many of you would like to see it. It’s of a race car prototype called the Mustang that wouldn’t go in to production for a few years: 1962 Research Vehicle for Ford called “The Mustang” Note: @06VistaGT mentioned this Wikipedia article about the...

Curious if anyone has any thoughts on this as I can’t find much on the forum specific to this behavior of my MME. This happens at least once a month: The FordPass “My EV driving” section of “Vehicle” displays a wildly inaccurate energy efficiency….like this one from yesterday. Wondering how...

Wow. I’m at the Mach-e Vlog EV Meetup in San Marcos California. One of the accessory companies here had these available so I got them. They fit PERFECTLY and are a 2-minute install. No more back-of-rear-seat damage. Available on the EV-Vida store...

My wife and I just watched the latest episode of The Good Doctor. The wife of the main character is pregnant with their first and is bummed she can’t drive the baby around in her cool 1976 Ford Torino as it has no modern safety features. At the end is excellent product placement as she shows...

No matter what I do, Securialert keeps turning itself back on. I now regret even trying out this feature, @Ford Motor Company. I did find this forum thread from back in March 2022, but apparently it has NOT been fixed yet. Getting a notification EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. that I even go in to the...

As I go on, or plan, road trips it really brings home how early we still are in the electrification of motoring. I routinely get crap from buddies that I can’t go exploring in obscure places (e.g. up to Yosemite or Death Valley Nat’l Parks) with little to no charging stations since it will be...

If you come across unique and different MMEs in the wild -- or you have highly modified your own -- post a photo of it in this thread. -------------------- Washed my Rapid Red MME Premium yesterday and thought my stock vehicle was a real looker. Then on our evening walk through our...

UPDATE ON FRIDAY, JULY 29, 2022 Last Monday was my dealer pickup date until damage was discovered. The dealer set an expectation then that Friday or “Saturday at the latest” would be when the MME would be fixed, painted and ready at the dealership. My dealer rep just contacted the outsourced...

@Ford Motor Company today released the Ford Heritage Vault. They’ve digitized a huge number of photos, brochures, and more. Unfortunately the website is SLAMMED with visitors at the moment so keep trying: AutoWeek: Ford Heritage Vault Takes You Deep into Automaker's History Ford digitized...

When ordering last December, Ford set my expectations with "20+ weeks" for build and delivery. Today marks 24 weeks and, since it appears there are no updates to my account, order, modules, etc., that it's probably a crapshoot when I'll get my MME actually built and delivered. So today I called...

Good article in the LA Times about Jim Farley’s new podcast “Drive” which is debuting May 25th: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-05-19/ford-ceo-jim-farley-spotify-podcast-tom-brady Be interesting to listen and possibly get some nuggets of info about Ford’s direction on EVs.

This article talks about Ford’s slight increase in penalty for dealers NOT attaching a customer name to an order (apparently a way to ‘game’ the system) but it sends a clear message: If you “F” around with us, you will be punished. Link...