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I have always charged my battery with an L2 charger. A week ago my driveway was repaved and I couldn't put the car into the garage. I charged the battery using the L1 charger and got 3 miles fewer than normal. Possibly the L1 charger is incapable of generating a high enough voltage to completely charge the battery to the same level that an L2 charger does. 240 volts times the square root of 2 is 339 volts. The battery is believed to be between 275 and 300 volts. 120 volts times the square root of 2 is 170 volts. That's way less than the battery voltage so who knows what method they are using to get the extra voltage needed to charge the battery. I may be able to determine how it works in a week or two. I was finally able to order the wiring diagrams for the car.

They are real. The L2 charger is considerably more efficient than the L1 charger.

Yes, the HVB display with the miles estimate goes away and is replaced with the battery display that shows the current SOC of the hybrid battery. There is no problem with letting it get to zero other than the car will be in hybrid mode and the engine will come into play. There is only one battery. The hybrid battery is just a reserved portion of the whole battery. The car will not let the hybrid battery go below about 25% SOC. The engine will come on to recharge it.

It's because of the L2 charger.

The specs for the big battery are in post 13. Apparently car batteries are no longer rated in AH. There is a new spec called Reserve Capacity. The definition is in post 13. Ford doesn't publish any specs for their battery so I have no idea what its ratings are.

Another update: It has been 6 weeks since I put the "big" battery into the car. There have been no battery saver messages and the power ports continue to stay powered for over an hour when the car is turned off. With the little battery the power ports turned off the instant the driver's door was opened.

One possibility. The fob is a very short range radio transmitter. If your smartphone happened to be transmitting at the time you put your hand on the door handle it might have overloaded the receiver in the car due to being so close. A smartphone transmitter is much more powerful the the transmitter in the fob. They would not be on the same frequency but overload of the first amplifier stage in the receiver would reduce its sensitivity and make it difficult to decode the data stream from the fob.

Did you have your foot firmly on the brake when you pushed the Start button? If you didn't you would get accessory mode instead of run mode.

Delete all versions of MyFord Mobile from your Android device. I had two of them. One was the stub they auto installed which overwrote the working version. Once your Android device is clean download and install MyFord Mobile from the Play Store. They appear to have put the old version back in the Store. Mine is now working again.

I took a trip yesterday starting out in EV Later mode. I quickly realized that the battery display is worthless. Throughout the EV Later trip it displayed the unchanging SOC of the HVB. It should be displaying the Hybrid battery SOC since the car is being driven in hybrid mode. The hybrid battery display mode doesn't appear until the HVB has been depleted to 0 miles.

It appears to be displaying the longest trip in the previous 30 days. Mine has been at 11 miles forever. That is the longest trip that I normally make. Yesterday I went to a destination 35 miles away for a total of 70 miles. It is now displaying 35 miles for me. So until proven wrong I think it is displaying the longest trip segment in the last 30 days. If that is the case it is a worthless metric.

Confirmed. I can now see them.

This is the meter that I use. http://www.ekmmetering.com/ekm-metering-products/electric-meters-kwh-meters/basic-kwh-meter-100a-120-240-volt-3-wire-60hz-ekm-25ids.html Hint: If you get one have it mounted at eye level. Stooping down to read it gets old in a hurry.

Is there a good AT&T cell phone signal where the car is parked?

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I live in Pennsylvania and my window sticker says 8 years 100,000 miles for the hybrid components.

Your warantee term is on your window sticker.

It matters in my garage. The outside is stucco, which is applied over a metal screen, and the doors are steel. The only way a radio signal can get into my garage is through the window glass.

It appears that it is. I couldn't get an update and thought it was because the car was in the garage. I moved the car outside and still nothing.

All of that information should be available from your dealer but many (most) don't want to be bothered. Join the Blue Oval Forum. http://www.blueovalforums.com Make at least 15 significant posts to a Blue Oval Forum. A post such as "This is my 8th post" is not a significant post and will get you a warning. After you have 15 posts find the Vehicle Locator By Ford Employees forum and read the rules as many times as it takes to understand them. Read the existing threads in the forum to see how the process works. If you don't follow the rules you may get a warning but more likely your post will be ignored. Create a new thread with a title you can use to locate the thread later. Enter the information specified in the rules. Early in the morning of a work day a Ford employee (cyberdman) will answer the request.

Moonroof vs Sunroof http://www.diffen.com/difference/Moonroof_vs_Sunroof

If your tax liability is greater than the tax credit then you should get the credit. I don't use TurboTax so I don't know how its interview process handles a PHEV.

The air in your tires is already 78% nitrogen.

I put 2.27 gallons of gas into my car in May to verify the fueling system worked. There have been no gas additions since then and my "sipper" value is 11 miles. Makes no sense to me at all. My last trip was 10.4 miles and then the battery was charged in 1 hour and 40 minutes. 10.4 miles doesn't round or truncate to 11. The next to last trip was 10.7 miles which does round to 11.

There is also the possibility that they misread the last reading on your previous meter. Mention that to them. Have the run capacitor in your A/C compressor tested. They go bad on a regular basis. The last time I did mine the 45 mfd capacitor was down to 0.7 mfd. Charging a fully depleted HVB in my car takes around 6.9 kWh. I have a kWh meter dedicated to the 240 volt charger. 30 days times 6.9 kWh = 207 kWh which matches larryh's post above.