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Remember that DC arcs don't attempt to self-quench 120 times/second like AC arcs do when the polarity changes. DC can be worse than AC in this way, especially if there is an inductive source; those who have training and experience with AC might not be able to apply some of that knowledge...

Perhaps my error was from wishful thinking…

I still have 1.0 and it works well for me most of the time. I was glad to pay the job-1 price, $600 for 3-years, a few months ago when my intro ran out. I have it turned on and running hands-free around 1 hour each workday for interstate travel. Would I pay $600 for one year? Ask me in a...

Kyle seems disproportionately obsessed with DC charge speed. I would guess few if any of us go cross-country as much as he and would care as much about an extra 10-20 minutes in charge time now and then.

Yes, indeed. Who has time to view half-hour youtube vids to get three paragraphs of information? It's not attention span, it is simple efficiency. If they had hands-on access to new hardware, that would be different.

2021 Job 1 owner here. Remote Frunk via iPhone app appeared after 6.7.0 in Dec 2023. (Virtual) button in car appeared with 6.14.0 last week. Promises kept. Thanks! I'm genuinely grateful.

The last time I dropped my car off at the dealer for routine service, the person whose job it is to move Ford vehicles from the driveway could not work out how to start it. For five minutes. (There are knowledgeable and skilled people at dealers, but they usually don't hang out up front with...

touch the "person" icon up top and see if you are logged in? Pull down the screen until refresh begins? (I'm just just guessing; I don't have the beta yet.)

Or, push the button on the steering wheel to toggle lane centering off.

Thanks for telling us your experiences. I ordered and received my car the same months as you in 2021, so our time in the Mach-E universe fully overlaps. I am lucky that none of the oddities I've experienced *required* the services of a competent dealer. I never got the glass recalls because...

Since the big screen feels the need to reboot from time to time, I appreciate that the small screen always "just works," centered speedo number or otherwise. My hunch is that the very first dual screen carplay first could the kind of beta experience that won't be welcome on many gauge clusters...

The devil's in the details. If you want it to be user-proof, the switching would likely have to be automatic, hence powered. That starts to sound like a big box with things like the contactors we have all learned about. And this would probably only work if the car's and charger's signaling...

I agree with the others who said that a competently-designed switch to connect the NACS charge pins to one of the CCS pin pairs would make the device much more expensive. To be frank, I'm kind of amazed that NACS works as well as it seems to. One theoretical advantage of CCS is that daily use...

Similarly, my '11 MKZ had a rack defect, which eventually was recalled for free repair. Well before the recall, it would sometimes fault in a way that cut all power to the steering, in traffic. As the driver coped with that, muscling around turns and curves, the car beeped, and said to stop...

Since this thread is by definition off topic, I'll go with that and point out that there are so few of us here in the southeast, we need to stick together. Enjoy your new Mach-E. Continuing further off topic, but staying in the southeast, I note that long road trips from Baton Rouge to...

I pity the Ford sys-admins this morning. I keep getting dumped to an FAQ page.

Near where I live dealers essentially never offer a fair price for a trade in, even when taking the small sales tax advantage into account. I always sell privately, even though I hate that.

It's hard to correctly guess how thieves react to our precautions. I used to have an elderly Saab with a nice aftermarket radio. Someone broke in, using a hammer, and tried to pry the radio out. He failed, but left the radio inoperable. I carefully disassembled the unit, painstakingly...

I think that the theory implied here that non-union workers lead to more competitive products than union workers is overly simplistic. Well-managed companies can work productively and profitably with well-run unions when both have good intentions. I don't think either Ford or UAW is overly...

Automatic parking requirements are hard to define. You don't always want to follow the lines, nor always to center between cars. Most people try to minimize the chance that they get dinged by an adjacent car, get a ticket, or be unable to exit their own car. Also, the process has to give the...