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Coronavirus has brought back some long gone things of days past, one of which is drive-in movies (in my town's case, with a jumbotron on a trailer in an unused parking lot). I realized when we got tickets that I'd better charge before I go, so I could run the defroster to keep the front windshield clear. An added benefit of EVs is not having to idle the car and breathe exhaust fumes to keep the windshield from fogging up! The other Fusion Energi right next to me and the Tesla in front were enjoying the same thing.

OK the dealer got the part in last week and we got the car in for replacement. Picked it up the next day last Thursday. I charged it 11 times during the week with 6 of them being over night. Zero issues. The light ring did not stay on after charging, no flashing light ring in the morning and no check engine light. Looks like it is fixed. For those of you on warranty this is good news. For those of you that are not the part was $1,000.00 and they spent a day installing it. I hope this information helps. Matt

That infernal double-honk every time I shut the door while the car is still on has driven me to reading about the little hidden settings that can be tweaked via FORScan. I found an epic master list put together by a fine gentleman, DanMc85 and I just have to share with yall here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1yax6zfhZYj2joBczEeruqKh9X5Qhee3C0ngilqwTA7E/pubhtml?gid=0&single=true Wanna ditch the doublehonk, ditch the 30 minute idle limit, disable all automatic interior lights, he's got you covered. Enjoy! And if you want to give thanks to the guy for documenting all this: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=893VKDJR3UH5A Also, to download all your manuals https://www.fordservicecontent.com/

If there was any hostility in my tone, I apologize up front. We're all on the same team. I'm certainly not saying you're wrong. What I am saying is that while you can make it last longer, I don't think the return is worth the effort. Now that's purely subjective of course. If you get satisfaction from hypermiling, analyzing battery statistics, beating the averages, and meticulous maintenance, I totally get it. These are VERY nerdy cars and I think you kind of have to be nerdy about it to full understand just why they are so good and why they have a cult following. Perhaps my point is better illustrated in this way. If you've come from a boringly reliable Prius, to then suggest someone has to pay so much attention to battery preservation before they even buy a FFE, sets a certain narrative that highlights the worst part (in my opinion) about this car... Which is the batter capacity. Nobody that has ever owned this car wishes it had a smaller battery. For someone looking at Teslas and Mitsu, and will be repulsed every time the gas engine turns on in your 50-mile commute, I just don't think it's good advice for a perspective buyer to imply that they should effectively defer battery utilization to make it last marginally longer. Lastly, I'm curious to know to just what extent you hypermile. If you're getting 28 miles from ~5.6kWh, you're doing roughly ~200wH/mi, which is more efficient than a RWD Model 3, which has an insanely efficient permanent magnet motor and a much lower drag coefficient. Very impressive. The takeaway from this is undoubtedly subjective like I said before. We're all different, and we're all looking for something different from our cars, and that's ok. For the benefit of data collection, my lifetime EV miles according to the instrument panel is 49,200 miles and FORScan says the estimated HVB capacity at full charge is 6.546kWh

Just got to 110K miles this week so time for a battery test on my 2015 Energi. Temp was a perfect 72°F Same route as always. A bit less this time: 24.5 miles and 4.9kWh to hybrid mode. I did have three quick stops with bad brake scores due to red lights and someone turning left in front of me, so I'm guessing the loss of regen braking is what killed the miles so bad. Just from the loss of .2kWh I would expect a loss of ~1 mile, not 3 compared to last time. I came back down the hill as usual gaining back charge and continued on until the gas engine fired up. 30.6 miles and 5.2kWh. A slow loss of capacity and range, but still a lot of life left in this battery.

Did you pull the fuel door apart (inner and outer pieces separate)? Sometimes the magnet gets lodged in between them and you can't find it unless you pull them apart. Unlikely you can get just the magnet from Ford. Probably have to buy the whole door. From my recollection it is about the size of a dime, but 3-4x thicker. Maybe you can try a "sample kit" of different sized magnets available online or from magnet suppliers like K&J Magnetics. It may take some experimentation on polarity to get it right.

In 2019 Ford increased the battery capacity by 1.4kWh and added all of it to the EV only portion. Thus the 5.6/5.5 kWh for a full discharge is ~7.0 for the 2019 and 2020 versions. So a "good" battery would be somewhere north of 5 kWh. Charging time would increase by ~1 hour as well.

I've seen that kind of thing before when arcing occurs inside the outlet (usually because there's a poor connection between the outlet and the accessory plug). Certainly get the EVSE looked at (I'd also recommend replaced - chances are the plug was/is now damaged), but I'd suspect the outlet itself had a part to play in that as well - it possibly it had a poor connection internally. The car will only pull up to 12A from a 120V outlet - under no circumstances should a sustained 12A done that to a normal GFCI outlet.

206K. 95% highway since purchased @ 85K May of 2020. only issue HVB cooling fan wire harness chafed, shorted. Dealer had to fix. Else It's been a good ride.

If the above is correct, and that only those still in the midst of the 5-year period got the letter, it must be based on initial sale date. Mine was built in September of 2016, but it remained unsold until March of 2018.

Here is a long thread that may help: