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What has me not getting my hopes up that it's an actual improvement is that "first 10 minutes" footnote. I don't remember that ever appearing in any Ford info before. Seems like a new disclaimer explicitly added for this press release. That doesn't seem accidental. (Plus the fact they reiterated the 45 minute number prominently in the middle of the article.)
All their previous info pushed the "47 miles in 10 minutes", which we've calculated as the average of the whole 10-80% charge curve (the numbers match). But much of the public (that's less familiar with how EVs work) doesn't really know that, or that charge curves tend to be highly variable based on SOC.
The cynical way to look at this would be Ford having planned this all along as a PR move -- announce the 47 miles number initially, then make a marketing splash with the "improved!" 61 number later, knowing that they're really just two different slices of the same charge curve that never changed.
Hopefully that's not the case, but it wouldn't totally surprise me.
All their previous info pushed the "47 miles in 10 minutes", which we've calculated as the average of the whole 10-80% charge curve (the numbers match). But much of the public (that's less familiar with how EVs work) doesn't really know that, or that charge curves tend to be highly variable based on SOC.
The cynical way to look at this would be Ford having planned this all along as a PR move -- announce the 47 miles number initially, then make a marketing splash with the "improved!" 61 number later, knowing that they're really just two different slices of the same charge curve that never changed.
Hopefully that's not the case, but it wouldn't totally surprise me.
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