Current max miles in the GOM

[devmach-e]

However, I don’t think Ford includes charging losses in the App’s kWh number. I guess losses are 10% so in terms of what I’m paying for electricity, I’m getting less than 3 miles per PG&E kWh.

In the Ford app it only reports what makes it into the battery, not what is drawn from the wall. You are correct that there's about a 10% less from the wall to the battery. Some of that is loss is from the AC to DC conversion, and some of it is for parasitic loads, like various pumps, compressors, and electronics that are running while charging is happening.

The number you care about when driving is the miles per kWh you get out of the battery. You only care about the kWh drawn from the wall when charging and when calculating your miles per kWh cost. 3 miles per kWh gives me a range of roughly 273 miles (based on 91 kWh battery). But to refill the battery from 0% to 100% requires 100 kWh drawn from the wall...

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[sglewiswl]

Ultimately all this is nonsense. They will develop batteries that have minimal cold loss and things like the GOM won't be so wildly different. For the near team they spend a lot of time blowing smoke up our asses.

 

[dan_meh]

Ford has a brake coach but not a
parallel acceleration coach. That’s a mistake. (And no, the trip computer doesn’t count. It’s past-tense-coaching).

A start would be more than one GOM like more than one accelerator mapping. Call the levels “hooligan,” “normal,” and “hypermiler” for different weights of people’s right foot.

Maybe it tells you the range you can expect if you leave with a preconditioned battery or drops other hints to maximize range (slow down, the main one). Hal, but less evil: “I notice that you left for your road trip with a cold battery, Dave…” “I noticed that you were driving 70 MPH, if you slowed down a bit you could skip the charging stop…”

I would like to see it integrated with the route planner. Most people don’t need it for their average trips…. they just need it for road trips. Imagine driving two lane roads on a road trip. Maybe you want hooligan mode to see your range and charge stops. Maybe you’re driving in West Virginia and feeling conservative with fewer DCFC stations, so you want a hypermiler recommendation. Maybe you want to flip back and forth.

 

[Billyk24]

GOM before & after driving history wiped pictured along with various Car Scanner dashboard screens showing HVB SoH @ 92.5%, GOM 100% charge, actual 96% charge and other stuff…….

But your are located in England. Ford's software is(?) modified to compute to the European testing method that is different than the USA's EPA. If true...then that range is inflated around 9% over what the EPA would produce.

 

[Teslaeata]

But your are located in England. Ford's software is(?) modified to compute to the European testing method that is different than the USA's EPA. If true...then that range is inflated around 9% over what the EPA would produce.

Sounds about right to me, car makers are allowed to tell bigger lies over here!

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