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That entered my mind when I read the original post. It seems to me that Ford has a list of tasks with a "time to complete" value, but no "actual labour needed value". For many things, these are probably the same, but with today's technology, more and more things only require a minimal amount of...

That makes it all the worse. Though, there could have been a substantial draw on the site's batteries a while before you arrived by others, and time of day limit could also be a factor. Using my 400 kW total for the site example, only a fraction of that would be drawn from the grid when used...

I'll be "that guy" today... 😉 The max rate was 62 kW. 62 kWh would be the total energy one would receive if that rate were sustained for one hour. But yes, it is low. How busy was the whole site? Just because a charger can deliver up to 250, doesn't mean it will. Even if your vehicle tells it...

Congrats on becoming an all-electric driving household! 🎉 We became all-electric in October 2021 with my Focus Electric when we sold our ICE Focus because it was a seller's market and we could get more to put into my wife's "Lightning Fund". 😉 I don't know how we managed to raise two kids with...

Since the current draw is the same, any heating of the cabling would be the same, which should be within allowable limits given that the circuit should be wired with the correct gauge cable as per code. However, to get a bit technical, even though the resistance of the cable would have the same...

208 V is mainly used with multi-dwelling services. Instead of using a transformer on a single phase that had a 240 V secondary with a centre-tap for the neutral, a 3-phase transformer with a wye-connected secondary is used with the common point in the middle of the wye being the neutral. Each...

Gotta love that! Then I thought, perhaps each "Normal" choice is for a different Normal, but they forgot to distinguish each one. We keep hearing about "The New Normal", so that may be one, which leads one to assume another is "The Old Normal". 😀 Then there's "normal" meaning at right angles...

If they haven't, here's a good start: keep chargers working once installed.

The winter loss of range on my wife's Lightning has been comparable, if not a bit less than it is on my Focus Electric - in kilometres (or miles). However, since a 90% charge on the Lightning gets us a bit more than double the distance that a 100% charge on my FFE, the loss of range on the...

Very true. It's been two years since I lost Value Charging and Go Times on my FFE when it's modem was upgraded to 4G and the TCU got buggy code. The bug(s) were fixed by Nov 2022, but it wasn't sent OTA, and a dealership said I would have to pay to get the fix. Yup, my clairvoyance didn't...

Where's the "gift" for my FFE? If buying an MME or Lightning is being "ahead of the curve", then buying an FFE must have been downright clairvoyant. 😉

The sign should also say "Employee Parking Only" as a 120 V outlet would have some usefulness for a vehicle that will be sitting there for eight hours. Seriously, a great number vehicles' daily use could get by if the vehicle were plugged into a 120 V outlet at work and at home. That's not to...

Just a thought, but does anyone make a 12 V "extension" cord? I'm thinking that one that was 3-4' long could be used with a floor cord protector that should mitigate any dog movement issues. I'm assuming the theater's cord is not long enough to use the floor cord protector.

I get the impression that Ford has simply lowered the quoted maximum without changing anything about the vehicle or its battery. After all, the previous "maximum" was 150 but some have reported getting better than that, at least for part of the charging cycle. They may just be under-promising...

This is technically true: breakers trip while fuses blow (they melt or fuse, but the common term was blow). Old habits die hard, so when breakers started becoming more common in homes over fuses, people continued to say "blow" when a breaker would trip. After all, how many of us say, "dial"...

For item 2, occasionally FordPass reports that the vehicle started but in fact it hasn't. I don't know why, as my software writing experience tells me that the message saying the start was successful comes from a response from the vehicle confirming it has. Either something in the communications...

Sounds impressive. I'm still hoping that EA's little brother, Electrify Canada, would at least add garbage cans to their sites so you don't have to walk ten minutes to throw out something. Oh well, I guess that counts as something to do while charging.🤷

Before FordPass, there was MyFord. This ceased to operate by March 2022. MyFord would show a vehicle as "Out and About" if it had been started. Not necessarily actually going anywhere, but definately told you it was started, and not just a remote start. One of the great features of MyFord that...

Exactly what I was going to say. My experience with our FFE (six full winters so far with occasional use of the 120 V EVSE) is exactly this. Ford has not maintained some features and functions they had with the FFE in the Lightning, so how this is now implemented might vary. I have noticed...

There are overheads in charging that will use some of the power available before any of it can actually get to the battery. With a 120 volt EVSE designed for a 15 amp circuit, the absolute maximum power it can draw is 1440 watts. That's because code limits loads to 80% of the overcurrent...