The truth about Electrify America's progress and Traveling with the Mach E

[ChasingCoral]

Maybe before COVID-19. Now everyone who can afford to is abandoning apartments and condos and buying single-family.

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[hybrid2bev]

I've heard this before from other videos.

 

[dbsb3233]

I've heard this before from other videos.

Let's hope that Ford has figured out a charger port design that fixes that "heavy cable" problem.

 

[hybrid2bev]

Let's hope that Ford has figured out a charger port design that fixes that "heavy cable" problem.

I think Chevy did on the 2020 Bolt, so it may not be an issue for the Mach-E. It would have come up in all of the Mach-E testing the engineers did at EA chargers.

 

[ChasingCoral]

Let's hope that Ford has figured out a charger port design that fixes that "heavy cable" problem.

Let's hope that EA fixes that flaw in their chargers, too.

 

[timbop]

I think Chevy did on the 2020 Bolt, so it may not be an issue for the Mach-E. It would have come up in all of the Mach-E testing the engineers did at EA chargers.

what's concerning is that it could be a design flaw in CCS, which would be really bad. Hopefully it's just a fluke in the way chevy made their connector pins

 

[hybrid2bev]

what's concerning is that it could be a design flaw in CCS, which would be really bad. Hopefully it's just a fluke in the way chevy made their connector pins

From what I've gathered the CCS cables are heavy and the Bolt's connector port was not strong enough to support the weight, which is why you have to lift up on the CCs handle.

 

[dbsb3233]

From what I've gathered the CCS cables are heavy and the Bolt's connector port was not strong enough to support the weight, which is why you have to lift up on the CCs handle.

Seems like it would be the spring-release latch on top that would be the crucial part for keeping the handle in tightly and avoid angling down and out from a heavy cable.

 

[hybrid2bev]

Could be? My guess is that when the Bolt first came out there were not alot of 150kW+ chargers out there. So maybe Chevy designed the pre-2020 Bolts to work with the 50kW chargers and J1772. Then when the longer and heavy cables came out with EA 150kw+ stations the connection issue presented itself.

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