Detroit Free Press addresses temperature impact on range

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Too bad, when I click on the link I get only a demand to subscribe, no access to the article...

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Too bad, when I click on the link I get only a demand to subscribe, no access to the article...

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Give it a shot now. I think the USA Today link will work without a subscription.
 
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That's odd. I am not a subscriber and it works for me. Maybe they allow a limited number of articles per month or something?? You could try it in an incognito/private window. It's another Detroit Free Press hit piece on the MME. Not much useful information.
 


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That's odd. I am not a subscriber and it works for me. Maybe they allow a limited number of articles per month or something?? You could try it in an incognito/private window. It's another Detroit Free Press hit piece on the MME. Not much useful information.
It gives useful advice for people in cold weather climates.

<tl;dr>If you have the luxury of plugging in overnight or while at work, precondition the vehicle before heading out. This will provide best efficiency since the cabin and electronics can warm up using more efficient shore power.</tl;dr>
 
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It gives useful advice for people in cold weather climates.

<tl;dr>If you have the luxury of plugging in overnight or while at work, precondition the vehicle before heading out. This will provide best efficiency since the cabin and electronics can warm up using more efficient shore power.</tl;dr>
Yeah. It just seems like DFP has an axe to grind with the MME.
 

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Yeah. It just seems like DFP has an axe to grind with the MME.
I dunno. I haven't really noticed that.

I appreciate the deep investigative journalism they sometimes produce. They had great stuff on the Fiesta/Focus automated manual transmission (DPS6) issues.
 
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I dunno. I haven't really noticed that.

I appreciate the deep investigative journalism they sometimes produce. They had great stuff on the Fiesta/Focus automated manual transmission (DPS6) issues.
It's more the headlines than the articles. Did you see the piece on the LVB issue? This article is factual regarding cold weather impact on BEV range we are all familiar with. For reasons known only to them they chose to focus on the MME, with only passing mention that it applies to all BEVs.
 

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It's more the headlines than the articles. Did you see the piece on the LVB issue? This article is factual regarding cold weather impact on BEV range we are all familiar with. For reasons known only to them they chose to focus on the MME, with only passing mention that it applies to all BEVs.
These are all fair criticisms. I can't disagree with your assessment of this article or those ones.

Maybe it is that some of their writers are just critics who need to catch eyeballs and fill columns, and other writers/teams do the much more valuable (to me) investigative reporting?
 

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Effective tomorrow, the Free Press hit pieces will be aimed at the F-150 Lightning rather than the Mach-E. We have just been the most buzz-worthy vehicle out there to this point. They hate us because they ain’t us.. ?‍♂
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