murphy

Does anyone else get the impression that the MFM "team" doesn't have an Energi to use in testing their software?

I got a $50 rebate when I bought the car in 2013. Nothing since then.

Can't help you with that one. My car doesn't have a shift knob, it has a shift lever that doesn't have any indicators on it.

There is a blower in the trunk, under the foam, between the air compressor and the EVSE. What "P" are you talking about? A picture is worth a 1000 words.

The first digit of the VIN specifies where it was built. 1 - USA 2 - Canada 3 - Mexico The 11th character specifies the assembly plant. B Oakville: Oakville, Ontario D Ohio Assembly: Avon Lake, Ohio E Kentucky Truck: Louisville, Kentucky F Dearborn: Dearborn, Michigan G Chicago: Chicago, Illinois K Kansas City: Claycomo, Missouri L Michigan Assembly: Wayne, Michigan M Cuautitlan: Cuautitlan, Mexico R Hermosillo: Hermosillo, Mexico V Blue Diamond Truck: Escobedo, Mexico 0 Detroit Empowerment Zone: Detroit, Michigan* 5 Flat Rock Assembly Plant (AAI): Flat Rock, Michigan T Otosan Kocaeli Assembly: Kocaeli, Turkey U Louisville Assembly Plant: Louisville, Kentucky

I get those a lot. Usually within an hour after charging has completed and I have unplugged the car. I don't know if the message is being created at the wrong time or if it was created at the right time and the transmission of the message has been delayed for a couple of hours.

I sometimes charge multiple times per day. I have to believe that Ford programmed the car to protect the battery given the 8 year warranty on the battery. I also don't believe that when the battery is charged to 100% that the battery is actually charged to 100%. Lithium ion battery charging has to slow way down as it approaches 100%. There is almost no slow down as my Energi approaches 100%.

If your power company charges different rates, depending on what time of day it is, then you program the car to only charge when the lowest rate is in effect. My power company charges the same rate 24 hours a day so I have never used value charging.

Make sure that both Home and Default are set to charge now on the opening page of your MFM account.

My Energi is listed as a Hybrid on my insurance policy. I gave up trying to get them to fix it.

There is a setting that allows the camera to stay on for a short time after shifting into drive, presumably for jockeying with a trailer. It should go off after about 15 seconds.

At 7:42 PM it put 15.4% into the battery probably because the battery was empty. It then waited until 12:47 AM to resume charging and fill the battery during the value charge time. The numbers don't make sense, to me, but if the battery is empty it will charge immediately in spite of being set for value charge to get something into the battery.

It is more likely that two of the four segments are burned out. I've had mine replaced once. One of the screens in the center display will give the battery charge percentage. It is selected from the same screen that selects the power flow screen.

You didn't have the car in EV Now. If you did the miles and EV miles would be identical. You mentioned "freeway", high speed driving puts a dent in the battery in a big hurry. The best use of EV is 45 mph or less. The HVB needs to be at least at 70 degrees F to get optimum performance. Did you have the heat on? That is a 5 kW resistance heater that also puts a load on the battery. The "20 miles" is a computed estimate based on how the car has been previously driven. If you were driving into the wind you mentioned and at high speed that that is also a significant load on the battery. "Drag" increases with the square of the speed. I have a 2013. In the summer I can easily make my regular 21 mile round trip in EV only mode. In the winter I am lucky to get 10 miles before the HVB is depleted. On the freeway put the car in EV Later so the ICE does the work. Use EV Now for around town and for traffic jams. My car is over 4 years old and I have never used Auto mode on purpose. If you can, do the test again driving on local roads, no faster than 45 mph, and without heat or air conditioning and with the car in EV Now mode. If you get a pop up telling you to push OK to use the engine, do NOT press OK, switch to a different screen to get rid of the request.

The original plan, back in 2013, was to get a USB to cellular dongle to provide internet access for your kids in the back seat. I don't know if anyone ever found one that worked. The Energi already has a cellular modem built in to the car to support My Ford Mobile. They should have allowed the WiFi system to use that to get to the internet.

I don't know about a 2017 but in my 2013 the following button sequence does it. Max air conditioning (sets the temperature to LO) Air conditioning (turns it off) Recirculate (turns it off - max air turned it on) adjust blower speed down from max Was Rube Goldberg on the design team for this car?

I have no idea. Mine is in L whenever I am in EV Now mode and usually in the other modes. It allows control down to about 5 mph using just the accelerator pedal. The brakes are required to come to a full stop since there is no regen at that low of a speed in a 2013. I understand the 2017 has an ACC follow mode which I think means the car now has electrically boosted brakes and it may work all of the way to a dead stop. Correct me if I am wrong.

Low is not a gear change. It puts regenerative braking on the accelerator pedal.

If you drive 21 miles in EV only you are dividing 21 by 0 which is infinity. In your car infinity is 999.9. If you drive 20 more miles and use 0.5 gallon of gas you now have 41 / 0.5 = 82 mpg. My point is that until you put a significant number of miles on the car, using the ICE only, the calculation will be meaningless. The general statement is that you need several tanks of gas in the calculation before it converges on a useful value. My 2013 is set to report MPGe which takes the electric vs gas into account. It is my understanding that from 2014 on they deleted the MPGe capability.

Are you driving in electric only mode at 80 mph? That is one cause. Temperatures below 70° F is another. Use EV Later when you are driving at high speed. Use EV Now for local driving. The back pressure (drag) from the air the car has to move out of the way is tremendous at 80 mph. Drag increases with the square of the speed.

Driving electric is not about saving money. It's about saving the planet. Driving electric puts zero pollution into the air. The battery is 7.6 kWh maximum. Charged once a day that is 30 * 7.6 = 228 kWh per month. Why did you think it would be less than that?

When the car is off the HVB is disconnected by contactors. Without 12 volts to close the contactors it is not available for anything.

Push the button on the end of the turn signal stalk to turn it off. I think it comes on automatically every time the car is started. I have have a 2013 which defaults to off. I have not seen any mention of it in my configuration menus.

The 12 volt battery does not get charged when the car is off. The engine is not involved. There is no alternator or starter motor for that matter. The 12 volt battery is charged by a DC to DC converter that is only active when the car is on. When the car is off the high voltage battery is disconnected from the car by contactors. 12 volts is required to engage the contactors to connect the HVB. A used car has likely been sitting on a lot for a while. If the 12 volt battery goes dead, that permanently damages the battery due to material flaking off of the plates and creating a pile of debris at the bottom of each cell. Unlike old traditional cars today's cars are loaded with microprocessors that are always on putting a small load on the 12 volt battery. Given enough time they will drain the battery. If your car is going to sit unused for a week or more connect a battery maintainer to the battery jump terminals under the hood to keep the battery charged. Connecting the EVSE to charge the HVB will not keep the 12 volt battery charged since once it finishes charging the HVB and the 12 volt battery it will not reconnect to resume charging. This problem is not unique to the Energi. Tesla took the opposite approach. They reconnect the HVB when the 12 volt battery needs charging. That guarantees that the 12 volt battery stays charged and transfers the drain to the HVB. They have a much bigger HVB, 100 kWh vs 7.6 kWh in the Energi, so the drain on the HVB is not as significant as it would be in the Energi.

ETIS is correct. Usually adding 7 days to what you labeled as the order date is the build date but it can vary slightly. Maybe there was a Mexican holiday that week.