Driving Score - How to Improve?

[troon002]

Any input on how to improve your driving score? On the exact same drive to work, 18.5 miles, ill drive, what i feel is conservative, in normal mode and get 2.0-2.2 mi/kW (mix of highway and city streets), and typically get a ford score of 85-90% efficiency. Just to test, I throw the truck into sport, drive aggressively, and can get up to 2.4 mi/kW. Seems backwards...i do get more regen on braking by a few miles driving aggressively so that helps, and my score goes up. Basically, my question is, how do I maximize the range in different driving modes...is anyone getting close to the 100% driving score and if so, what are you doing to achieve this?

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[hturnerfamily]

our Nissan Leafs were always giving us 'growing trees' as we drove, more conservatively, more 'trees'...if you get the idea...

it's a combination of the coasting/regen when possible, the 'easy on the pedal' when getting up to speed, the 'speed' at which you typically drive at full throttle, etc., but possibly also TEMPERATURES and other conditions we might not think about, even and including using the air conditioning, windows down while driving, etc.

We did some tests in our Leafs over the years, trying to determine if simply letting the car do what it does to mitigate energy needs, driving conservatively along the way, versus putting the gear into 'B' mode, which is extra regenerative braking, like the 'one pedal driving' on the Lightning. We found negligible difference between the two, and I find that allowing the car to 'coast' actually felt better and made more sense in day-to-day driving. Hard regenerative feedback 'feels' good, and may give you a false sense of 'saving' power, although you can certainly understand that when you bring a large heavy vehicle to a stop, it takes a LOT of power to get it back in motion, or even when you just let the 'one pedal' effect slow it, maybe a little too dramatically for the situation.

 

[Maquis]

When I had my dealer’s service loaner, I could consistently score 100 in sport mode with 1PD as long as I never touched the brake pedal.

 

[beatle]

When I had my dealer’s service loaner, I could consistently score 100 in sport mode with 1PD as long as I never touched the brake pedal.

+1. It's probably tied to how much you use the brake pedal. If you don't use it at all, the truck will recover as much as it can from regen. Turn the brake coach on and see your individual braking "scores" which tell you how much energy was recovered. My guess is your overall score is some kind of average based on the results of those different braking events.

 

[RickLightning]

Any input on how to improve your driving score? On the exact same drive to work, 18.5 miles, ill drive, what i feel is conservative, in normal mode and get 2.0-2.2 mi/kW (mix of highway and city streets), and typically get a ford score of 85-90% efficiency. Just to test, I throw the truck into sport, drive aggressively, and can get up to 2.4 mi/kW. Seems backwards...i do get more regen on braking by a few miles driving aggressively so that helps, and my score goes up. Basically, my question is, how do I maximize the range in different driving modes...is anyone getting close to the 100% driving score and if so, what are you doing to achieve this?

You know how in life, you either care, or don't care, whether that guy down the street thinks what you drive is cool, or how your new lawn tractor is cool? Do you care?

Ford's EV data isn't always clean. Another post shows a picture of an 80 mile drive on one kW. Didn't happen, but truck says it does.

The score is based on a bunch of factors. If any of them have data issues, it's crap.

On the Mach-E, Ford used to provide suggestions on driving. Don't know if it's still there, or on the F-150L or not. On a 3 mile drive, it had 49 suggestions for me...

Drive how you want to drive, and enjoy your truck. If that gets you a good score, you can go buy a medal or a certificate and hang it on your wall. But if it doesn't, who cares? Enjoy your truck.

 

[Crilly]

They charge so fast, You well be wasting your time to save a few pennys

 

[beatle]

Drive how you want to drive, and enjoy your truck. If that gets you a good score, you can go buy a medal or a certificate and hang it on your wall. But if it doesn't, who cares? Enjoy your truck.

There's more to a good score than just the certificate and the medal that follows for getting 100% on a 100 mile trip. It can help you get the most range out of the truck which some people care about.

A high score also encourages people to use regen as much as possible. Regen is a pretty unfamiliar (and sometimes unappealing) sensation to people who are coming from an automatic that just sails ahead when you let off the right pedal. Ultimately I found 1-pedal mode to be one of the most unsung but important features of an EV, and I liked the slight challenge of avoiding the friction brakes as much as I could. The fact that Ford made a kind of game out of it is actually a pretty good idea.

 

[RickLightning]

You know that 1PD isn't more efficient than other modes, right?

 

[beatle]

Right. I also know it is far easier to know that I'm staying off the friction brakes by not using the brake pedal at all. 1-pedal mode eliminates having to wonder when the truck blends the friction brakes into the stopping force.

 

[Maquis]

You know how in life, you either care, or don't care, whether that guy down the street thinks what you drive is cool, or how your new lawn tractor is cool? Do you care?

Ford's EV data isn't always clean. Another post shows a picture of an 80 mile drive on one kW. Didn't happen, but truck says it does.

The score is based on a bunch of factors. If any of them have data issues, it's crap.

On the Mach-E, Ford used to provide suggestions on driving. Don't know if it's still there, or on the F-150L or not. On a 3 mile drive, it had 49 suggestions for me...

Drive how you want to drive, and enjoy your truck. If that gets you a good score, you can go buy a medal or a certificate and hang it on your wall. But if it doesn't, who cares? Enjoy your truck.

That’s all well and good as long as you don’t have OCD tendencies. Me, I find myself obsessing over the MPG graphic in my F150. ?

 

[Yellow Buddy]

That’s all well and good as long as you don’t have OCD tendencies. Me, I find myself obsessing over the MPG graphic in my F150. ?

It's as if these boomers don't even know.

Who cares about the guy down the street in real life. It's all about the likes and the followers. When I get my 100, I'm going to take a picture of it and post it on Facebook (wait, are they called something else now? Is myspace back in because it's retro?)

Have they even owned an iPhone? Or played FarmVille? (I can't name another game...) Top scores matter, it's called gamification.

Gaming is a sport now. The scores are a game. That makes driving my F-150L a sport. I'm going to film me doing it. That makes me a professional driver and I just made $50,000 driving to Walmart with a 100 score.

...I need some younger folks to help me translate that into languages and platforms I don't understand or speak! I'm sure they're cringing as they read through that. It's like the 40 year old Narc in high school..

 

[jefro]

My BMW i3 had a gas pedal that had a detent where zero power could be held. You'd use it to try to hypermile and coast up to stops and such.
Since the F150 is a big fat slug blocking wind, slow down even if it is 65 to 63.
Avoid high regen. From my Bolt and i3 my guess is you only get 20% in reality back into battery.
Reduce climate settings.
I guess it is possible that other factors can be using power. Some folks have pids for the truck already.

 

[Roy2001]

Hypermill, for example, when you reaching redlight or stop sign, drive it like in N gear, and let it go, then slowly fully release gas pedal.

Free gliding (like N) is better than regen.

 

[newF150]

I drive my Mach E like I drive my ICE vehicles, don't brake too hard, coast to lights/downhill, ease down the accelerator to get going. I don't have 1PD on as I still have a couple ICE vehicles and I already found myself taking my foot off the brake at lights because I have autohold on the Mach E. Coasting and applying the brakes slowly kicks in the regen as well, as long as you're not slamming on the brakes they typically engage at under 5MPH and holds at a stop. With the weight of the vehicles, even with the little regen on coasting it doesn't seem to affect speed that much.

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