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Hello everyone! So I have a 2013 Ford Fusion Energi. I absolutely love my car. I have had it for 11.5 months now and I am on my second tank of gas with almost 9K miles on it. I bought the car brand new and have been in love since day one. The other day though it started doing something weird. It kept dropping me out of electric mode when I went to accelerate from a dead stop, at say a stop light. I still had 15 miles left of charge on the battery. A little about my driving. I may be 22 but I drive like an old person when I accelerate because I try to make my electric battery last as long as I can before I hit hybrid mode. So I have very slow starts and of course no sudden stops, have to capture as much energy back that I can, haha. Here are some factors that might be causing it. It is summer and the temperature where I am at has gone from the 60's, Fahrenheit, to the 100's. Now this isn't unusual but we had record breaking highs last summer and it this didn't happen then. Also there are no extreme hills where I am at so its not like the engine is working overtime to get up a hill. My question is, has anyone else had this problem? My service department is trying to tell me this is normal. It can't be normal though because it just started happening to me last week. Why would I spend an extra 20k on a plug in hybrid when I could have gone with the actual hybrid and saved myself the money.