According to the owner's manual, EPA results would be the same in all three modes. The modes affect lighting, animation, sound, steering feel, and pedal mapping. But they don't directly affect how much power is used to spin the wheels or how much regen can occur.
In his visit to Jay Leno's Garage, Jim Farley said that Whisper mode would be a max-range situation. Somebody's wrong. Is it the CEO or the manual?
If you take the driver out of the loop and replace it with efficiency test equipment, then Farley is wrong.
Well, the CEO was wrong talking to jay leno then lol.
Yeah he made a few mistakes, and the situation was awkward for him. I would have made a lot more mistakes being in the spotlight with a famous person like that
very likely IMO. I know the CEO's of the company I've worked for don't know the product nearly well as the rank and file, and certainly some engineers reviewed the manual.
Yes I've heard that too, that would make the MME the only one in that situation has in all other cars changing from ECO, NORMAL and SPORT does have an instaneous impact on the GOM range estimate. If I'm not mistaken Ford CEO said on that Jay Leno's Garage Show that WHISPER would be giving you the max range.
Yep Darren said many times range was not affected. I watched so many webinars and Darren was asked this very question about 100 times and everytime he came back and said no it does not affect range.
Yes but if it does so it should show immediately on the GOM like in other caRrs.
However, at least once Darren also said driving in Unbridled might encourage you to drive in a more animated way than Whisper.
While true, I still contend all that's mostly moot for most people. Driving style mostly matters for city driving (hard starts, how much regen, which drive modes, etc). Those things can hurt city range. But city range doesn't really matter much for most people that just charge at home at night and have plenty of range for a day around home.
Other than making sounds, I assume the driving modes only affect acceleration and deceleration. For deceleration, pressing the brake normally (i.e. not jamming it hard) should simple engage regen. Which is the same thing that 1P or an aggressive driving mode does. The only difference should be how much it automatically does for you. But either way it's regen, so no effect on mileage.
