Stop charging from inside car

[CoyoteMach]

New here, and new to the Mach E. I could not find anything via search.

My question. If you are DC fast charging at any location and you have reached your desired state of charge, is there any way to stop the charging session from inside the car? I know you can push the stop charge button on the charge port, but i was looking for way to stop it either from inside the car or via Ford Pass. I didn't see any way to do so in my two fast charge sessions so far.

It it possible, and if so, how?

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[Gerbilicious]

No, and they barely give you any info about the charging. Only Est time really.
Best is to use the app for it.

 

[RickMachE]

New here, and new to the Mach E. I could not find anything via search.

My question. If you are DC fast charging at any location and you have reached your desired state of charge, is there any way to stop the charging session from inside the car? I know you can push the stop charge button on the charge port, but i was looking for way to stop it either from inside the car or via Ford Pass. I didn't see any way to do so in my two fast charge sessions so far.

It it possible, and if so, how?

No, and they barely give you any info about the charging. Only Est time really.
Best is to use the app for it.

Click in the Car icon top left, then you will see the button to unlock the charge port.

 

[Gerbilicious]

Click in the Car icon top left, then you will see the button to unlock the charge port.

Wait, for real? Not that I have ever actually needed option from inside the car but never knew that.

 

[Maquis]

Wait, for real? Not that I have ever actually needed option from inside the car but never knew that.

Yes. You will even see the (greyed out) button when not charging.

 

[Mach-Lee]

Yes, you can use the unlock button on the vehicle controls screen to stop DC charging. That's the one I use the most.

HOWEVER - Make sure the doors are unlocked or the button won't work! The new locking logic requires the doors to be unlocked or a phone to be outside the vehicle. Phone or fob inside the vehicle won't allow an unlock using the button on the screen (which is dumb).

 

[ChrisO]

Yes, you can use the unlock button on the vehicle controls screen to stop DC charging. That's the one I use the most.

HOWEVER - Make sure the doors are unlocked or the button won't work! The new locking logic requires the doors to be unlocked or a phone to be outside the vehicle. Phone or fob inside the vehicle won't allow an unlock using the button on the screen (which is dumb).

Wow that is some strange logic.

 

[luckie]

Yes, you can use the unlock button on the vehicle controls screen to stop DC charging. That's the one I use the most.

HOWEVER - Make sure the doors are unlocked or the button won't work! The new locking logic requires the doors to be unlocked or a phone to be outside the vehicle. Phone or fob inside the vehicle won't allow an unlock using the button on the screen (which is dumb).

Yesterday at the EA station on the Ohio Turnpike (Wyandot)…

After pressing the physical button did not stop the charging session nor unlock the DCFC plug, I spent way too much time thinking about this topic. I got it to stop and unlock eventually but just wanted to thank people like @Mach-Lee and @RickMachE, and dozens of regulars here, for many prior posts over the years, that helped me troubleshoot that problem on the road, as well as many before.

 

[HuntingPudel]

Wow that is some strange logic.

When they made it so the charge port could not be unlocked unless a key were present or a door unlocked, they forgot to add the interior key receiver to the part of the subroutine that polls the outside door receivers. An oversight, and a dumb one.

 

[Maui]

Forgot? Or thought if you are physically inside unlocking the doors with the inside switch is a better indicator Than the fob Or paak?

i wonder about the matrix of options and what will work and when it won’t.
for instance, you have paak and you leave the fob in the car walk away locking doesn’t seem to work. Should it or does the car not know what is happening?

Is their documentation for the rules that will be followed?

 

[RickMachE]

Forgot? Or thought if you are physically inside unlocking the doors with the inside switch is a better indicator Than the fob Or paak?

i wonder about the matrix of options and what will work and when it won’t.
for instance, you have paak and you leave the fob in the car walk away locking doesn’t seem to work. Should it or does the car not know what is happening?

Is their documentation for the rules that will be followed?

You put your left foot in, you put your left foot out, you put you left foot in and you shake it all about....


If key in vehicle, don't lock automatically. Owner simply pushes lock symbol on door, or last 2 numbers on keypad. Not hard.

 

[HuntingPudel]

Forgot? Or thought if you are physically inside unlocking the doors with the inside switch is a better indicator Than the fob Or paak?

i wonder about the matrix of options and what will work and when it won’t.
for instance, you have paak and you leave the fob in the car walk away locking doesn’t seem to work. Should it or does the car not know what is happening?

Is their documentation for the rules that will be followed?

The project manager may have reasoned that if one were inside the car that they could reach the unlock button and therefore the code to poll the interior key sensor could be omitted. It's dumb reasoning for being lazy but Ford's done a lot of really dumb stuff with software. I guess I simply prefer it to believe it was an oversight. Of course, going by this reasoning, walk away lock should not exist since it's no real extra effort to push the lock button on the door compared with the man hour(s) it took to write that feature.

There's no documentation of these "rules" that has been published. We're going off of common sense. For instance, the car doesn't know everyone has walked away and the car now needs to be locked since it sees the key in the car (regardless of the fact that from a security standpoint one should not leave the administrator key in the car). Why would it lock if it still sees the key present since it doesn't know that all occupants have left?

 

[E90alex]

My question is why do you feel the need to stop the charging inside the car when you will momentarily exit the vehicle to remove the charge cable anyways?

 

[E90alex]

The project manager may have reasoned that if one were inside the car that they could reach the unlock button and therefore the code to poll the interior key sensor could be omitted. It's dumb reasoning for being lazy but Ford's done a lot of really dumb stuff with software.

I assume both the exterior charge port unlock button and the software button on the screen send the same CANbus signal to unlock the charge port. So the cars computer cannot differentiate if the exterior or software button was pushed.

 

[HuntingPudel]

I assume both the exterior charge port unlock button and the software button on the screen send the same CANbus signal to unlock the charge port. So the cars computer cannot differentiate if the exterior or software button was pushed.

Right, so another reason that if this were a conscious decision of the project manager to exclude the code it was dumb. As I said, I prefer to think of it as an oversight, but Ford has done a lot of outright dumb stuff with software.

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