EV Mileage

[Shepherd]

After 8 months in my Mach-E I don’t look at the mileage estimate much anymore. I pay attention to the battery percentage. Round trip to the office I use about 40 percentage points consistently. Granted I haven’t driven in real winter yet, but this morning it was below freezing.

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[RickMachE]

so last question - I did that - thank you but I also have an app on my phone from Autel which is the company my charger is but will it stop at 90% if I did what you said on the ford app?

Your Autel has the ability to prevent the car from charging if the car wants to charge. It's the "plug in the wall" and the car is the "lamp switch". The lamp switch (car) gets turned on, but if the Autel is set to not provide power, the car won't charger.

For most people, the charger (the Autel) is just providing power 24/7, and the car determines WHEN and HOW MUCH.

With level 2, your vehicle uses the charger that is built into the car. The Autel box that you have is not technically a charger, it's what we call an evse (electric vehicle service equipment). It's basically just a fancy extension cord with a really sturdy switch in it to be able to connect and disconnect the power to the car.

Car is in control of when it charges, including stopping at whatever number you have the car configured for.

This does not work the same for level 3 fast charging that you would do at Electrify America or a Tesla Supercharger, but even with those, the car can tell the fast charger to stop providing electricity at whatever charge threshold you have set.

End result is whatever number you set in the car is the amount that it will charge to.

thank you so I think I did it correctly - on the food app on my cell phone its at 90% as well as my car when I go to charger and did that slide thing to 90% - hopefully it stops at 90% because a few times I forget to stop it

You've had your car since July and you haven't setup home charging?

 

[RickMachE]

After 8 months in my Mach-E I don’t look at the mileage estimate much anymore. I pay attention to the battery percentage. Round trip to the office I use about 40 percentage points consistently. Granted I haven’t driven in real winter yet, but this morning it was below freezing.

You're in for a rude awakening soon... Better to know your kilowatts per mile driven. Then, you can see the impact on your next trip to the office and compare it to one in August, and see the impact of winter.

 

[SuzieN]

If you can see it set to 90% in the Ford app, and 90% in the car, for a location that your car is currently parked in, then it will stop at 90%.

Bear in mind that will only apply to whatever area you programmed it for (most likely your house), so if you charge it at other locations, it will default to 100%, unless you create a charging location for that place as well.

got it - thank you!

 

[Shepherd]

You're in for a rude awakening soon... Better to know your kilowatts per mile driven. Then, you can see the impact on your next trip to the office and compare it to one in August, and see the impact of winter.

I will start monitoring that and reset Trip1 next time to keep the winter stats. Trip2 has my entire mileage and just 4% was lost from exterior temperature and 6% climate use.

 

[AliRafiee]

so last question - I did that - thank you but I also have an app on my phone from Autel which is the company my charger is but will it stop at 90% if I did what you said on the ford app?

Yes. The car is the source of truth

 

[SuzieN]

Food app. ???

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[dalola]

 

[Vnorvi]

Can we make this search a giant modal popup when people first visit the site between Nov - Mar?

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Perhaps add that it helps a little to warm up the car from the app before your drive (while plugged in)

 

[CameraCarl]

???

In several of your posts your phone apparently auto corrected "Ford app" to "food app" and you apparently never noticed it.

 

[Maquis]

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Otto Correct strikes again!

 

[SuzieN]

In several of your posts your phone apparently auto corrected "Ford app" to "food app" and you apparently never noticed it.

Ha ha just saw that / oh well food for thought ??

 

[SuzieN]

Otto Correct strikes again!

Found it lol

 

[Brian]

So crazy - today it's very cold and I had 228 miles displayed this morning. I maybe drove 20 miles at the most and it went down 100 miles. I guess in the cold temps you really have to keep your vehicle charged like every other day

So first winter with mine as well. I've been monitoring things that will affect the range in the cold and a few things to do that can help.

1. Preheat while plugged in.
2. Use 'recirculate' when using heat. This will reuse the cabin air instead of outside air.
3. If making short stops (say 5 minutes maybe 10) leave the car on. Less power maintaining cabin then letting it cool and reheat.

-8 Celsius here and usage started at 35kwh and at the end of 50km trip with 4 stops about 5 min each was down to 26kwh.

 

[eponey]

So first winter with mine as well. I've been monitoring things that will affect the range in the cold and a few things to do that can help.

1. Preheat while plugged in.
2. Use 'recirculate' when using heat. This will reuse the cabin air instead of outside air.
3. If making short stops (say 5 minutes maybe 10) leave the car on. Less power maintaining cabin then letting it cool and reheat.

-8 Celsius here and usage started at 35kwh and at the end of 50km trip with 4 stops about 5 min each was down to 26kwh.

Just set the climate to auto it recirculates most of the time anyway.

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