How often do you charge your Mach E?

[Starscrean]

Select standard. 65 miles a day drive and charge every night from 11pm my TOU 11pm-5am. I often get texts saying my the car is pulling very little voltage due to it reaching charge point I set 90%

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[Namdrof]

Wow, that's some mileage for sure. I imagine you didn't just start this commute since getting the MME, have you found that having an EV for this situation has been better in terms of ownership costs? Obviously an MME up front is more expensive than getting something like a Camry, but as far as ongoing fuel and maintenance costs (oil changes and such), has the EV been better in your view?

In my opinion and situation, yes has been better. My previous car was a 2019 Fusion Energi. I was stopping about every 3 days for gas and would sometimes go in and get drinks and snacks. With the Mach E I very rarely stop at a gas station. I was spending about $350-$400 a month in gas. Now its about $75 a month in electricity.

 

[heisnuts]

I plug in every night. I drive about 145 miles daily Monday-Friday and maybe 100-150miles on the weekends. I charge to 100% in the winter and 90% in the summer. I have a Charge Point home flex on a 60amp breaker and set to charge between 10:00pm-6:00am so $0.053 per kwh in the summer and $0.0476 per kwh in the winter. 27 months of ownership and 90,744 miles.

Have you checked your HV SOH (battery percentage life) now that you are at 90K?

 

[AKgrampy]

After reading all these opinions it makes me wonder when some PhD candidate will research the correlation between peoples charging habits and sex lives!

 

[Namdrof]

Have you checked your HV SOH (battery percentage life) now that you are at 90K?

Not yet but I need to get my tires rotated so I will check it when its in the shop.

 

[RWG]

Your standard battery is 70KWH. If you get 3 miles range per KWH you have about 210 miles range per full charge. You said you are driving 12 miles per day to work and that is about 60 miles per week. If you are charging a couple of times per week because the charge is down to 20%, something does not add up . 20% to 90% is approximately 145 miles of range, (based on my assumptions and calculations) Based on the relatively low mileage commute per week, theoretically you should only need one charge per week, unless you are driving a lot on the weekends and/or you are "hot rodding" everyday and getting low miles per KWH.

 

[2021-MMEx-RT1]

I charge it once a week. We have a big poker game and all the guys come over and we spin around the generator and, well, sit around...

 

[Jack Roberts]

I have a 2023 Ford Mach-E Premium standard range battery, RWD, and I’m charging much more often than I thought before I bought this EV, I would say 1-2 times per week on avg. I drive only 6 miles each way to and from work, and I am trying not to charge til I’m down to around 20%, up to 90%, unless I’m going on a trip and I’ll do a full 100%. Anyone else charging more often?

I have a 2021 GT PE and I charge about 3 times a week between 60 percent and 90 percent always at home. I take my Maverick Truck if it’s more than 75 miles. I have never used the dc charger.

 

[alexgorod]

Your standard battery is 70KWH. If you get 3 miles range per KWH you have about 210 miles range per full charge.

In a mild winter temperature (~40F) it's about 60KWh and 2.5 miles/KWh. It's lower when it's freezing. Still 70% drop requires at least 100 miles to travel even in freezing temperatures, based on my experience.

I usually charge when the battery percentage drops below 50%, and always for the weekend, sometimes to 100%, to be ready for unexpected trips.

 

[Electrifiedsince2013]

I charge using excess solar production, so I’m set to 85% max and it’s always plugged in when home. The solar system decides when there is excess and routes it to the car.

How does your solar system decide? I assume you have some sort of Smart Control for it.
I had solar installed last year, and I didn’t realize that solar systems (some) had that capability. I don’t think mine does.

 

[Electrifiedsince2013]

Mark me in the plugin nightly with 90% limit as suggested in the manual column.

I do that in the winter (in MI), and precondition every morning. Now that it’s nice out, I plug in 1-2 times per week and I don’t precondition.

 

[Chrisbriding]

2023 Premium AWD extended range.

I charge to 80% whenever it gets below 20% so roughly every 6 days or so. We charge to 100% before any road trips.

 

[Kamuelaflyer]

I have the car scheduled to allow charging between noon and 4pm. Those hours are within the utility’s off peak hours (9 am to 5 pm) and also allow the solar system batteries to fill up and recover after the charge.

I plug in when the car gets between 30% and 50% and charge up to 80%. I live on an island and 80% is far more than enough to meet most needs. If a hurricane is heading in our general direction, I charge to 100%.

 

[kennethjk]

This has been asked before but I would be interested to see the SOH of everyone’s battery and see if their is a correlation to degradation based on how people charge.

there is another thread where people are posting info but I haven’t seen anyone chart it.

 

[Auto Motive]

I have a 2023 Ford Mach-E Premium standard range battery, RWD, and I’m charging much more often than I thought before I bought this EV, I would say 1-2 times per week on avg. I drive only 6 miles each way to and from work, and I am trying not to charge til I’m down to around 20%, up to 90%, unless I’m going on a trip and I’ll do a full 100%. Anyone else charging more often?

We have a GTPE 2021 and use it mostly in 50mph and under driving getting avg of 3.5 to 4.5 kwh summer 2.8 to 3kwh in winter. Winter range 220 to 240 summer avg 280. We charge at 30 pct up to 100pct every two to three weeks. My wife gave me the GTPE last month after receiving her new 2023 Model Y. The workers at the Fremomt plant are non union, work hard under poor management conditions and are building a better quality vehicle every year. They have families to feed and money is good with huge amounts of over time. We bought it because of their hard work, price, quality for 2023 is excellent and rang e 330 miles. The Y listed at $ 72380 last year with AWD and big battery. Dropping prices last month to $53000 which included custom paint and wheels. Tax credit also a full $7500. So far 90% avg range at 299 miles under 50mph at 5kwh. We only charged it 1 time costing $19.
Its fast, quite and easy learning curve if you are tech savy. The price was astounding at final $45500. App is terrific. Remember to
precondition battery since it will return up to 20pct more range. We bought a 40amp plug in type juice box on a 50 amp breaker and it works evertime even at 125deg. Long cord, very heavy duty and decent app. Good luck in getting a huge amount of info from our forum.

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