I own a 2023 Mach-E and love it. I'm soooo glad you made the distinction that lack of charging is not the fault of the car. It's a lack of charges and a lack of too many chargers not working when you show up to charge. In my area I use EVGo and so far they have been great... rarely have down stations and I setup my EVGo account so that I can plug and charge at any EVGo station anywhere and that has worked every time. But like you said I'm looking forward to providers installing more charging stations. Lastly, I have a Ford 40am charger in my garage, installed by an electrician which gives me 10kw charging... I can go from about 50% charge to 80% charge in just 2-3 hours. thanks for the info/video
Good Video but some observations. Max charge rate for the Mach-e is 150Kw so the 350Kw charge bay is useless the 150Kw bay would have worked. Also, that looks like a rental, did you go into settings and reset the Charge/drive history, makes a difference as it learns your driving habits and adjust milage accordingly. Like some other commentators said doing 80mph is not indicative of getting the max milage out of the batterie.
weird.... I have 16,000 miles on my Mach-E and its my only car.... and most of those miles (13k+?) is driving from Miami to Cincinnati to Dallas to Miami to cincinnati to miami to Minneapolis.... but seriously... 96% of all drives that americans make can be accomplished with this car with a level 2 at home every day, and 50% of those could be done with level 1 charging at home at night. More if one has workplace charging etc. But yes, EVs are not for everyone...
Just so you know the Mach e can only charge at 150kw max. Not sure why you picked a 350kw charger. But yes ea needs to fix there stuff and thanks for the video
Largely because I don’t trust the chargers to actually output their max. A 350 might only be giving 100 or 150 so I went for the max. Thanks so much for watching!!! Do you have a Mach E? That’s a pretty detailed fact to know! 🤓
Same. I’ve researched dozens of cars just for fun. I feel like this cars spec was a nice balance of features and performance/range. But I can’t help but wonder what a GT would be like.
well i mean it can do over 170 kW for awhile on a 350 kW charger..... at least mine does... but yes.. only stays there for a short time. Sadly the marking of speeds is horrible in the market... so many 120 kW chargers are actaully only 70 kW chargers for most cars.... which is another thing that needs to change.... but really we need more site-level power distribution and every post everywhere should be CCS/J3400 500 amps/1000 amps capable.
Thanks for the awesome video! I thought the built-in navigation system is kind of basic and simple looking. But actually this looks nicer now with the more modern software. Not as good as Apple oder Google Maps but still....
Electrify America is the reason why Ford made a deal to switch to Tesla Superchargers effective Spring 2024. This was a fair representation of the dual-personality nature of life with an EV. It’s simultaneously the easiest and most frustrating vehicle ownership experience. Until the public charging situation is better sorted, road trips will be more adventurous than necessary. I tell people to NOT buy an EV unless they can charge at home. It’s simply not worth the hassle when the biggest benefit is charging at home.
@@brendandrives Ford and GM gain access to something like 2/3 of Tesla Superchargers in the next few months. Plus all the new infrastructure buildouts from Pilot-Flying J/EVgo, Buc-ee’s/Mercedes, BP, Circle K, etc, there are some big improvements coming to this country in 2024. It’ll seem like overnight chargers popped up everywhere.
I think your charging problem was the Ford plug and charge, next time I would disable the plug and charge if you were going to use the apps to enable the charger
If you live in LA, I think you would see things differently, anyway I love not sending my money to the oil sheiks in the Middle East! Good video but you are wrong in your final analysis my friend.
