Nikos
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- Location
- Taylors SC
- Vehicles
- 17 Must GT, 21MME AWD, 22 F-150 Lightning
- Occupation
- Aircraft Mechanic
Last night drove to my place with 12% capacity left, 1100 miles on the odometer from a 600 mile trip. Delighted with the vehicle. I have read most of the posts that describe various issues with the vehicle.
My wife and I paid close attention to those described concerns. The vehicle was driven mostly on interstate with about 80 miles on country and city roads.
We listened for the glass roof noise at 70 mph, road noise, glitches from center display, instrument display, intelligent cruise control, one pedal driving and of course our first experience with Fast Charging at EA stations and ChargePoint stations at our destination. Fast Charging experience was better than expected. That free 250KWH from EA compliments of Ford, never happened. Since I opened an account with EA, the system recognized my phone and the process to charge our Mach E was uneventful. I saw rates of charge from an 150KWH station around 139-143KWH.
From 24% to 80% took about 32 min. On our return visited the same station with 48% as a starting point to 80% took only 21min.
The station will inform us that fast charging ends at 80% and the rest of the way is done at 13 to 14KWH. We were happy at 80% charge. By the time we had lunch and used the facilities time was up to travel again.
No wind noise from the roof, no glitches from the big screen, no issues with our phones as keys. I use a ChargePoint charger at home and enjoyed to use their network at our destination. Average speeds at interstates were around 70 to 75 mph.
All this had to be managed accordingly.
That means, if you had 200 miles range and your next waypoint was 180 miles away, we had to keep our consumption per KW around 2.8 to 2.9 to achieve our range with at least 15 to 20 miles margin. Took it easy at the start and build up speed at the end.
I noticed that my Mach E does not illuminate the rest occupants foot well. I need to look for those LEDs. A very pleasant 600 mile experience. YES.....we are taking this Mach E to long distance trips now. $23 was my cumulative bill for electricity. It even beat my gas bill from my Fusion Hybrid doing the same trip. I got many thumb ups along the way. Some people recognized it at interstate driving and at our destination.
Some said......it is finally out.!!!!!
My wife and I paid close attention to those described concerns. The vehicle was driven mostly on interstate with about 80 miles on country and city roads.
We listened for the glass roof noise at 70 mph, road noise, glitches from center display, instrument display, intelligent cruise control, one pedal driving and of course our first experience with Fast Charging at EA stations and ChargePoint stations at our destination. Fast Charging experience was better than expected. That free 250KWH from EA compliments of Ford, never happened. Since I opened an account with EA, the system recognized my phone and the process to charge our Mach E was uneventful. I saw rates of charge from an 150KWH station around 139-143KWH.
From 24% to 80% took about 32 min. On our return visited the same station with 48% as a starting point to 80% took only 21min.
The station will inform us that fast charging ends at 80% and the rest of the way is done at 13 to 14KWH. We were happy at 80% charge. By the time we had lunch and used the facilities time was up to travel again.
No wind noise from the roof, no glitches from the big screen, no issues with our phones as keys. I use a ChargePoint charger at home and enjoyed to use their network at our destination. Average speeds at interstates were around 70 to 75 mph.
All this had to be managed accordingly.
That means, if you had 200 miles range and your next waypoint was 180 miles away, we had to keep our consumption per KW around 2.8 to 2.9 to achieve our range with at least 15 to 20 miles margin. Took it easy at the start and build up speed at the end.
I noticed that my Mach E does not illuminate the rest occupants foot well. I need to look for those LEDs. A very pleasant 600 mile experience. YES.....we are taking this Mach E to long distance trips now. $23 was my cumulative bill for electricity. It even beat my gas bill from my Fusion Hybrid doing the same trip. I got many thumb ups along the way. Some people recognized it at interstate driving and at our destination.
Some said......it is finally out.!!!!!
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