Fast charging for Mach-Es at Ford Dealerships (UK)

[Trevor]

And we all know what a promise from a braying donkey is worth ?

Here is one my 4 donkeys. Considerably more helpful that Ford. Lol.

As for the original question, Hereford have a Type2 charger, but I doubt it is free. Also, I'd have to drive there, wait till it had charged, then drive home again. As it is 40 miles away, the round trip would take literally hours!

I don't see why they would supply it for free and I was never promised that when I purchased it. What they cleverly did was to promise FREE ACCESS to the Ionity network. Not free power.

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[Alungr]

Here is one my 4 donkeys. Considerably more helpful that Ford. Lol.

As for the original question, Hereford have a Type2 charger, but I doubt it is free. Also, I'd have to drive there, wait till it had charged, then drive home again. As it is 40 miles away, the round trip would take literally hours!

I don't see why they would supply it for free and I was never promised that when I purchased it. What they cleverly did was to promise FREE ACCESS to the Ionity network. Not free power.

 

[Alungr]

I didn't expect free power but that would have been a bonus! What I was promised was free access, "bigging up" how all Ford dealerships needed to have 2 fast chargers installed by the end of 2020. And with this the case, and the number of Ford dealerships across the country, you wouldn't ever be too far from a charger 8-6 6 days a weeks.
Total bollocks in reality...my dealership doesn't have any chargers installed, another nearby dealership told me that there chargers were only for use by Ford and specific designated customers...and ! wasn't one of them!

 

[Trevor]

I didn't expect free power but that would have been a bonus! What I was promised was free access, "bigging up" how all Ford dealerships needed to have 2 fast chargers installed by the end of 2020. And with this the case, and the number of Ford dealerships across the country, you wouldn't ever be too far from a charger 8-6 6 days a weeks.
Total bollocks in reality...my dealership doesn't have any chargers installed, another nearby dealership told me that there chargers were only for use by Ford and specific designated customers...and ! wasn't one of them!

I was dragged up in Cheadle Hulme, so wondered where you were located.
I would have loved free electric, but getting it from dealers, who are usually located 'out of town' would be a pain. My local dealer has 2 charging spots, but they usually leave their demo Mach E at one of them.

 

[Alungr]

I was dragged up in Cheadle Hulme, so wondered where you were located.
I would have loved free electric, but getting it from dealers, who are usually located 'out of town' would be a pain. My local dealer has 2 charging spots, but they usually leave their demo Mach E at one of them.

Stockport is where I’m at. Only a few miles away.
An example where dealer access would have been useful would be Inverness (regular visitor). No public rapid chargers nearby so a planned dealer stop would have been really useful.

 

[stinky minky]

Where I live the nearest Ford dealer is about 40mins drive. they keep closing the Ford dealers

 

[deyoung]

Maybe it's too early to buy Mach-e , if buying it at all in the UK ( I would not recommend it).
The dealers have no clue and are not interested. I really regret it. Shame it is a good-looking car but not worth the £ for the stress it has caused me. The extended range is advertised at 379 miles.
Three times I charged at 100% and the maximum is got is 284 miles, ( this is 25% less.) on full charge
The three readings were 282miles , 279 miles and 284 miles when 100% charged.

 

[Alungr]

My dealer Hartwell (the worst company to deal with) has one charger which was used by their staff.
I took home delivery of a brand new electric car costing over £50K (US$65k) at 24% charge as I could not wait more that the 90 minutes I was already there.

At least your local dealer has a charger! Evans-Halshaw has the original “e” franchise in Manchester (U.K.) area and still hasn’t got a fast charger installed…let alone for customers to possibly use!
Ranges: about what I get…and down to approx 230m in winter. Quoted 379m range is a joke, completely unrealistic. 10% error - fair enough; 30% error - pretty much a lie.

 

[dbsb3233]

At least your local dealer has a charger! Evans-Halshaw has the original “e” franchise in Manchester (U.K.) area and still hasn’t got a fast charger installed…let alone for customers to possibly use!
Ranges: about what I get…and down to approx 230m in winter. Quoted 379m range is a joke, completely unrealistic. 10% error - fair enough; 30% error - pretty much a lie.

379 is a joke, but half of that differential is WLTP instead of EPA (which would be 300m for the RWD ER). I still don't get why Europe uses such a wildly exaggerated range calculation.

 

[Wonky_Donkey]

379 is a joke, but half of that differential is WLTP instead of EPA (which would be 300m for the RWD ER). I still don't get why Europe uses such a wildly exaggerated range calculation.

Oh god the old “EPA is right / the WLTP is wrong” garbage again.

We drive differently here in Europe - our roads are generally narrower, and as a result average speeds are slower. For a lot of people that means we get better efficiency, and the WLTP estimates are actually not too far off reality in the summer months.

So please stop trashing WLTP as fantasy just because it doesn't fit with your experience in the US.

 

[dbsb3233]

Oh god the old “EPA is right / the WLTP is wrong” garbage again.

We drive differently here in Europe - our roads are generally narrower, and as a result average speeds are slower. For a lot of people that means we get better efficiency, and the WLTP estimates are actually not too far off reality in the summer months.

So please stop trashing WLTP as fantasy just because it doesn't fit with your experience in the US.

Yet we regularly see comments like the one above from people in Europe that get nowhere close and find WLTP rather wildly overstated across the board.

So I guess it depends who we're listening to. I'm glad it appears to be a reasonable estimate for you though. Nice to hear it's close for somebody. That's pretty rare from what I've seen.

 

[Smuddell]

An update to the OP's question at the beginning, my local dealer does now have 2x22kWh AC chargers (so not great for the MME which can only charge up to 11kWh AC!). Customers are allowed to use them for free as long as they are not needed for customer cars in for service or their electric vans. I wouldn't normally take the p and keep using their free leccy but they were very helpful in the winter when I was having 12V battery issues, so needed to do frequent HV battery charges to help keep the 12V battery topped up!

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