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Most likely scenarios (as someone who did this for their Auburn Hills rival...) 1. They are waiting on approval 2. They are waiting on their agency to push it at a certain time (we like noon ET over here...) 2. Some of the data is still pending in some state (correction, QA, legal, etc). SP

I'll go see if we changed that behavior. I turned in my PHEV for a different vehicle a few weeks ago.

Yes, you still can do a remote start in a garage. We don't know if the vehicle is in an enclosed space or not. We sort of have to trust the operator to know not do that (and put an amazing amount of warnings in the owners manual not to do that...)..

For the engine to start you have to perform an "active" action, like remote start using the app or fob OR pushing the start button in the vehicle itself. Otherwise the vehicle uses the electrical system to precondition while it is plugged in.

It's just the engine fans. The accessories on the PHEV version of Pentastar V6 are electrically driven and this is one of the reasons. We can divert a bit of the charge coming in to run the fans independently of the engine.

There a number of promising technologies that make current batteries look positively outdated. You see the announcements every day. The problem is commercializing them is hard. Like startup sucking up all the venture capital/taking all your R&D budget for the next 10 years hard. And a lot of...

There use to be different charging buckets based on what your vehicle reported as it's charge rate. They simplified it quite a bit since then. If the Mach E Reported itself as a 150kW capable vehicle, you would be charged the 350 rate. There use to be a 1-150 bucket as well so if the E reported...

Could pull a DB meter app from the app store and record readings. Ideally it would be measured from the same position in the vehicle using the same app and phone type. That's about as scientific as we are going to get on this without getting vehicles in the same place.

That makes little sense. The windshield is electrically inert and can't act as an RF antenna. Even the windshields with the antenna built in use wires in a specific pattern with the glass acting as the structure to hold it in place. You don't want to put the sticker behind those wires as they...

We have BEVs currently (Fiat 500 in EMEA and Maserati) and I am pretty sure we'll have more as the years roll by. We've been told a reason for the PSA merger was their electrification tech complements ours. I have all the confidence in the world we will have affordable EVs here at some point...

You said it better than I did. We have fast feedback vehicles go to executives and hope to hell that we caught all the stupid stuff ahead of time so we don't have someone with "president" in their title find it. We test, test, test, and then let other people test. We test right up to the day it...

Let me be clear this is me speaking my thoughts and not anyone elses (or any other entities that may employ me). Physical components are relatively easy to track down and figure out when things went wrong. As a fictional example, in batch 2021-3245-46B of blinker fluid bolts, we found 10% of...

I can answer this two ways. We track down to the last nut every part on the vehicle as it left the factory. Ford, GM, and Toyota do as well and I assume at least every legacy OEM does as well. We're on the hook for recalls and being able to trace everything via our supply chains is critical to...

This was us and a Jeep Cherokee. This was way back when connected vehicles were in their infancy and group that didn't deal with computer security on a regular basis designed and built the connected vehicle system and forgot to lock the system down. I can go into details as the hack has been...

I would be very surprised if Ford didn't require signed firmware for the ECUs and a few levels of authentication between the device and ECU before allowing a firmware upload. At best, I can see the OBD port being disabled for spewing garbage on the network, at worst, I can see the vehicle...

Knowing how we do it, the OTA server has mutual authentication between us and the vehicle. The OTAs themselves are signed in multiple places and even signed to the individual ECU. If someone wanted to screw with it, they would have to go through at least 2-3 different points of failure before...

This is a good overview. Do note there are many different things going on that bus and the OBD port has access to many of those things (but not all of it for safety reasons). There are the basic OBD-II codes (covered by that link) and then there is the proprietary CAN messages beyond what OBD-II...

That there is the rub. Once you start using something you know is third party based or Internet Connected, you are subject to those privacy policies.

I work for Stellantis and we have a stripped down version of Android Automotive as the OS on our new R1 Radios (10.1" in the Pacifica and other models). Here's ours T&Cs for connected services as an example of what you may see with Ford...

Unless Ford does something radically different than the rest of the industry (they don't), you won't see the Android OS come in until a model is refreshed or a new model is released. This means you will see Sync 4A on new vehicles for at least 3-4 more years.