Initial range after charge well below advertised range- 2025 Flash

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For my $0.02...

Early April I was driving around the greater Vancouver and Frsaer Valley area, all the way up to Squamish. Decently sunny spring weather.

I did 107km of driving on the highways (but highways with traffic, and then a twisty roller coaster highway, so averaged probably 80kmh or 50mph), and I got 27kwh/100km. With a 131 usable battery, this is an implied range of 485km, or about 95% of the EPA estimated 510km range.


So yea, the truck can and will get its efficiency rating. But if you are driving at 60-70mph or more, at constant speed without any slowing down for corners, traffic, etc., yes in my experience 400km (or about 250 miles) is probably accurate.

AND....my Guess-o-meter on the instrument cluster still shows an implied range of 400kms when full. Even though I know that it can do more.

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[22legit2quit]

Keep your foot out of it and off the highway and you’ll see the range. On the highway you’ll lose 10-20% with wind and whatever your speed is. Get the charging adapter for the Tesla superchargers and you’ll be fine.

 

[TrojanThor]

38 one way commute in Texas Hill Country 5x/week. 2.9 mi kwh possible when not using AC, driving speed limit (under 55 most of the way), 1 pedal Normal or Cruise control 70%. 25' Flash Build 1 133kwh

 

[22legit2quit]

38 one way commute in Texas Hill Country 5x/week. 2.9 mi kwh possible when not using AC, driving speed limit (under 55 most of the way), 1 pedal Normal or Cruise control 70%. 25' Flash Build 1 133kwh

Gotta use that sport mode. Always seems to get me 5-10% extra range over the entire charge and the regen braking/one pedal engages with quite a bit more speed and intensity.

 

[jamelski]

You got the standard range battery on your flash on accident I’d call ford BEV team get a ticket going and apt to get it fixed. It happens.

 

[Traconesu]

38 one way commute in Texas Hill Country 5x/week. 2.9 mi kwh possible when not using AC, driving speed limit (under 55 most of the way), 1 pedal Normal or Cruise control 70%. 25' Flash Build 1 133kwh

Wow. I'd like to see more lightning readings like this.

 

[TaxmanHog]

38 one way commute in Texas Hill Country 5x/week. 2.9 mi kwh possible when not using AC, driving speed limit (under 55 most of the way), 1 pedal Normal or Cruise control 70%. 25' Flash Build 1 133kwh

25.8571 MPH, was the truck idling for an extended period?

 

[TrojanThor]

Lots of stop and go, stoplights on my commute.

 

[taraafico]

In a 70-80 degree temperatures with soc of 100% you should have gotten at least the advertised mileage, but in a colder weather is different.Batteries simply don’t like the cold.

 

[ZeusDriver]

If you want to know what you should be getting, reset one of your Trip logs (I use Trip 1) and drive for a week. Take the efficiency number (miles per kWh) after your week of typical driving and multiply it by 131. That's your typical driving range for the weather/terrain.

If you average 2.0mpk, that's ~260 miles. You need 2.4ish to achieve the EPA rating.

I just wanted to support this. The reported energy usage is accurate, not a guess, so if you drive around at a leisurely pace, you will probably find that you can get 2.4 or 2.5 miles per kWh. If you repeat that a few times, you should get a better indication from the GOM. If you are still getting low range, but are generally driving at 2.4, then you should have the battery checked.

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