Future OTA Wish: Real-time energy usage on the dash

[Xenotet]

I’ve seriously thought about how cool it would be to wire in some analog gauges:

 

[generaltso]

Is there any other BEV or PHEV in existence that doesn’t show any indication of power and regen? I’m not aware of any.

 

[Maquis]

Is your username here a reflection of how the dictation on my iPhone renders "Mach-E?" ?

I'm a Trekkie...alien race from Voyager!
I'll have to try that on my iPhone, though!

 

[Mathington]

I know it's not real-time, but I just keep the trip meter in the bottom left corner of the screen under my Apple CarPlay. This shows the average kWh used on the trip, so I keep an eye on that as it tends to update somewhat frequently.

That being said, I would still love to have a live kWh readout on my gauge cluster somewhere.

 

[theo1000]

OTOH the I3 originally arrived without an SOC meter! Giant fight with high faluting German Engineering and finally they gave us a SoC meter.

Don't understand this EV engineer need to hide info from users. Its a $60,000 car, not a golf cart! We want to see the critical stuff in simple easy to read charts and displays!

I swear there are times even on coast when the car applies regen, esp. gentle down hills. I now resort to flipping to N to force the car into pure freefall. A electron flow display, the lowly volt had one 11 years ago, would let me know what the car is doing.

 

[PrimeFuture]

Just replying to echo so @Ford Motor Company sees how many of us want real time consumption data. I want to know how much power my acceleration uses, how much power my braking regenerates, how much different 60 mph vs 80 mph consumes. Give us the data!

 

[timbop]

Just replying to echo so @Ford Motor Company sees how many of us want real time consumption data. I want to know how much power my acceleration uses, how much power my braking regenerates, how much different 60 mph vs 80 mph consumes. Give us the data!

agreed! And of course the charging data, too

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