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I had experience with this, but as they say, your mileage may vary. This happened between 3 and 4 years ago with my 2021 ME. I came out to the garage, and the car was dead. I finally figured out how to open the frunk and get to the 12V battery. I tried charging it from our gas car, but it...

We had a mobile service tech come to the house to check the wiper motor for a possible recall. He had to remove the wiper arms to get to the motor, and I was watching him. If I remember correctly, he used what I would call a "puller" which has two arms that hook under the wiper arm and a screw...

If you are right, come see me in 10 years and I'll buy you a steak dinner!!

They aren't totally isolated now. The HVB charges the LVB even if the car isn't "on".

So, I will make a prediction. With 10 years, many EVs will not have a low voltage battery. If I had to guess, I would guess that the Chinese will figure out a good way to do this and the American manufacturers will play catch up. Watch this space!!

We don't drive a lot, but I probably put 20K on the 2021 ME before I changed the filter. We are semi-rural, but the roads in our subdivision are dirt. We use HVAC most of the time, but we have it drawing in fresh air. I think your explanation of where the dust is kicked up may be the right...

Thanks for the responses. It still doesn't answer why my filter is clean. If you saw the amount of dust on my cars, and particularly the rear window, just from driving the 2 miles from the house to the main highway you would understand why I think there should be a significant amount of dirt...

I appreciate the responses. Some of them seem valid to me, so not so much. (My degree is in Electrical Engineering, Rice University, '71. Yes, that's a long time ago!) Someone mentioned that this may just be cheapest and easiest solution for Ford, but that puts the onus on us to replace the...

I've been wondering why the MachE has a 12-volt battery. Someone is going to say it's because there are a bunch of things in the car that run off of 12 volts. But you don't need a battery to have a 12-volt source. A DC-to-DC converter could supply 12 volts from the main battery. And, in...

Since we live in a very dusty area, I swapped out the cabin filters in both cars about six months ago. Interestingly, even after several years with the old filters, there did not seem to be much dirt on the filters. I just went to swap them out again, and I don't see any dirt on either of the...

The dealership may not be shady, perhaps just incompetent. There's a lot of that going around IMO.

I personally use Unbridled because it has a lot stronger regenerative braking when you let off the accelerator. I don't particularly like 1P.

It tells me too that it doesn't fit my 2021 or my 2023. Not sure what "fit" means in this case!

I don't remember the exact amount, but I was offered something in excess of $8,000 and decided to accept it. The other options weren't very good and involved a lot of legal effort and expense. Since I have now had the car for over 4 years and don't have any plans to sell it, that actually...

Rusky, You are correct. The SOC (state of charge) doesn't tell you anything about the health of the battery. (Possible exception if the reading is very low.) SOC tells you how much power the battery has as a percentage of its maximum. You can have a battery that is close to 100% charged but...

I have reserved a MachE rental from Budget for next week in Austin, TX. Having been a MachE owner for over 3-1/2 years, I obviously know how to use the car. My question has to do with charging a rental. Here is what I think will happen, but if anyone has any better advice, it would be...

I hadn't really thought about it. I guess I'm not that concerned. The fact that it's not very straight might influence me though!

I think they are generally much larger than people realize. There were a bunch of cars stopped yesterday with people scrambling to get pictures. I hope no one got hurt.

We took a trip in our 2023 ME to Telluride yesterday, both to enjoy the trip and to try our Tesla adapter. There are 8 chargers in Mountain Village, which is part of the "greater Telluride" area. As we turned into the parking garage, there were 5 chargers on the left, all in use. (My wife...

Sounds about right. I would certainly look at using Alamosa on a trip to Denver.