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A big price cut to reduce the overly large inventory of unsold cars and to stay competitive with the Tesla Model Y : Select rear-wheel drive (RWD) drops $3,100 to $39,895 Select all-wheel drive (AWD) drops $3,100 to $42,895 Premium RWD, standard range drops $4,100 to $42,895 Premium AWD...

This is a weird issue: Car scanner shows that the 12 V battery voltage is 14.7V but at the same time.it reports that the 12V battery SoC is only 58%. Itt never seems to reach much above 60% as the charge current drops to 2 A. That is not surprising given the high voltage. I wonder how the...

Last year I posted a detailed technical analysis of the HVBJB problem that has affected many. I suspected that software cannot fix a hardware design problem. Let's look at the schematic of the HVB Junction Box in our MME: The current flows from the positive battery connection (+380V) though...

My initial year of using PAAK on my iPhone was a frustrating experience. In about 25% of cases, it did not work at all, and I had to use the key code. Also, it frequently showed 'no Key detected' while driving, even though it was connected to wireless CarPlay. It put up with it because it is...

Construction: The rear hatch of the MME ER AWD is entirely constructed using plastic, so magnetic bumper stickers won't stick anywhere on the back. Rubber tubes along the left and right sides of the rear hatch act as pinch sensors, which stop the electric motor from closing to prevent fingers...

TLDR: Probably not Longer version: Thanks to John Kelly's excellent video we can lift the mystery of the operation of the High Voltage Junction Box (HVJB) in the MME. We can also figure out the likely problem that triggered the recall for the contactor. How? Buckle up and let's get technical...

I notice that my Ford mobile EVSE charging cable cannot sustain the rated 32A (7.6kW) for long. After about 15 minutes the yellow light comes on periodically and it throttles back to 20A. And then it starts oscillating with a period that changes over time. Here is a plot of the power usage when...

I have a 2022 extended range MME that I love. TLDR; If I change it full to 100%, I do not seem to get the promised 91kWh usable battery energy. It appears to be less. The GoM also shows sub-par range. So I started digging a little to find the cause. For now, it appears that the battery actually...

I decided it was time to check out what is hidden behind the plastic of the frunk. Any maintenance - other than refilling wiper fluid - requires removing the frunk hardware. That adds to the shop cost as it takes time: Unclip the 3 plastic panels, with quite some force. Clips may fall off and...

BlueCruising on Hwy280 in Cupertino. Co-Pilot360 ADAS (Advanced Driver-Assistance System) and BlueCruise uses many sensors: Forward-looking camera in the windshield, which does the lane detection. It likely also does pedestrian detection and tracking of other obstacles in front and plays a role...

In short: the cost per mile depends on the price of gasoline and the price of electricity. I make this table to help out: For example: if your electricity costs $0.15/kWh and your current gas price is $4/gallon, then the Mach-E is equivalent to a 72 MPG car. For comparison: a Prius is about...

I used to drive a Chevy Bolt and Volt before my shiny new extended range AWD Mach-e. Chevy's electric cars displayed the propulsion and regenerative power flow conveniently on the dashboard. The Mach-e doesn't do that, so I configured car scanner pro to display and track a few nerdy parameters...