Talk to @macchiaz-o . IIRC he has had that particular problem do often and so long that it could officially be called a feature.
Maybe I will try Unbridled one weekend, again, just to see if I feel any different about it.I love that about Unbridled - it's the main reason I use that mode as my primary. This is my second EV and I got used to the more aggressive regenerative brake settings. It just feels like you have so much more control over the car. You get used to feathering the accelerator to adjust the effect. Ford did us a disservice by locking the brake/accelerator power bar to the GT models, though. On my previous EV I could see if I was actively accelerating or hitting regenerative braking, and roughly how strongly I was doing either, so I could train myself to know the feel and pressure on the accelerator needed to coast. I don't like how I have no visual feedback on the Mach-E for that, but I got used to it and do it by feel now.
That, and it's kind of nice for those times when you get a case of the zoomies and then spot a police officer, to be able to slow down pretty quickly without activating your brake lights. Y'know, just so as to draw a bit less attention to yourself
Unbridled does not brake when you lift off of the accelerator pedal. It has a much more aggressive regeneration curve than the other two drive modes, which makes the car decelerate as if you had a manual transmission in an ICE car and did not disengage the clutch when you let off the accelerator. If you have a GT or GT-PE (or if your instrument cluster is modified via FORscan) you can watch the difference in regeneration on the power meter. ??
Thanks for the clarification...
Like @HuntingPudel said, you're slowing down while not actually using the brakes.
Not to segway this thread. But, to confirm, with Unbridled, the brake light does not come on, unless I press the brake pedal?
Pretty much any topic here that stays active for more than half a day gets segued. ?
The car posesses an accelerometer which will illuminate the brake lights when the car decelerates at a great enough rate. Under the right conditions, the brake lights will illuminate without pressing on the brake pedal. For the most part on flat land they will not come on. There are also instances where a light tap on the pedal will bring the brake lights to bear and they won’t extinguish until the car is going quite slow. ??
This is the behavior on my Pacifica Hybrid, but I have not noticed the lights activating on my Mach-E - but perhaps they're not bright enough to light up the area around me. It seems like it would be a safety hazard to decelerate as quickly as we can with unbridled mode and not have the lights activate. I'll keep an eye to see if it really is activating or not.
It’s actually a misnomer. It should be called regenerative deceleration. There is no brake involved to convert kinetic energy into heat. There is a generator that converts the kinetic energy into electricity. ??
