Mobile Charging at 3KW

[djwildstar]

For daily charging, you should ideally have something better than the Ford Mobile Connector. As a daily charger, it has a number of drawbacks:

• It seems intended to keep on your truck, for occasional use on the road, and I have heard several people report that it eventually fails when used as a daily charging solution.
• It has multiple possible weaknesses, including the outlet and the connections at either end of the adapter cord; these connections can overheat causing the charger to reduce power or fail to charge.
• The mobile charger delivers a maximum of 30A at 240V (7.2kW) even when plugged into a NEMA 14-50 outlet on a 50A circuit (which can safely deliver up to 40A, 9.6kW).

Your best option is to get a hard-wired EVSE installed. I've also heard multiple reports of builder-grade NEMA 14-50 outlets failing under EV-charging use, particularly with frequent plugging and un-plugging of the charger. Since you already have a suitable circuit to the plug, it should be a relatively inexpensive job for an electrician to install an EV charger. There are a number of good chargers (ChargePoint, Wallbox, Tesla, Clipper Creek) that would be suitable, and you can often get one at a discount or rebate from your power company.

I'm not terribly fond of the Ford Mobile Connector as a mobile charger. I personally use a J+ Booster2 for my mobile charger, because it offers adjustable charging current up to 40A and multiple socket adapters. Other folks have reported good success with the Tesla Mobile Connector, it's plug adapter kit, and a TeslaTap charging adapter -- I decided not to go that route because there's no way to adjust the charging current: Tesla cars allow you to do this from the car's screens, while Ford doesn't.

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[metroshot]

The Ford mobile charger is crap. Those who bought a '22 Lightning received it as an included accessory with the truck. Those of us who bought a '23 Lightning had to pay extra to learn how bad it its. Best advice is to just get a different mobile charger, or better yet a direct-wire EVSE in your garage. You'll get several recommendations -- Tesla, ChargePoint, WallBox, Grizzl-e, etc.. They're all good. The only mobile connectors I personally have experience with are the Tesla ones.

Agreed - I left mine still sealed in the frunk for emergency use only.

I read about all the failures, thermal throttling, and red ring of death lights on the Mach E forums.

Best to get a real EVSE.

My Emporia has been going strong even in 120 degree temps year around.

 

[Rockwall]

Agreed - I left mine still sealed in the frunk for emergency use only.

I read about all the failures, thermal throttling, and red ring of death lights on the Mach E forums.

Best to get a real EVSE.

My Emporia has been going strong even in 120 degree temps year around.

Is it odd that it overheats at 95 degrees ambient? That seems fairly low for something that goes in the garage.

Tim

I was just noticing that my home charging station, supplied by my Ford dealer has slowed to 3.5 Kwh. I live in Texas. About 90-85 degrees but installed in the garage, hard wired with 59 amp/240. Do not use the mobile charger that came with the truck. Any thoughts on this?

 

[trev5150]

I used my mobile charger at work 4-5 days a week for two years straight (Tucson, AZ). Only once do I recall having to unplug and re-plug due to an error. Other than that, no issues at all.

 

[K6CCC]

I received my mobile charge cord with my truck. The first time I attempted to use it, it did not work, but that turned out to be the adapter cable was not COMPLETELY plugged in (thanks to this forum for resolving that issue). After that I used it once on 120V (9 KWH), and then installed a NEMA 14-50 outlet at my house and used the mobile charge cord seven more times on 240 volts (207 KWH total) before removing the NEMA 14-50 outlet and connecting a FCSP in it's place (yes, changed the breaker from 40 to 60 amps). Never had any problems with the mobile charge cord. Now it just lives in the frunk. I expect to use it a couple times on a trip next October when I should have access to RV outlets on two nights. Otherwise it just sits there...

 

[Rockwall]

I was just noticing that my home charging station, supplied by my Ford dealer has slowed to 3.5 Kwh. I live in Texas. About 90-85 degrees but installed in the garage, hard wired with 59 amp/240. Do not use the mobile charger that came with the truck. Any thoughts on this?

I looked online today for possible troubleshooting my Ford home charger how to change a charge rate: the answer was: log into fordpass
Tap on energy
Select charge station
Tal settings
Move slider under max charge to increase or decrease your charge stations charge rate.
worked like a charm!

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