Just bought Ford CPO Lightning XLT keeps pausing charge

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Thanks for the heads-up on the Charging app/infotainment. I'll go see if I can find that later today. I expected to have more information during the charging process than what I could see on the FordPass (miles of range, SOC, and projected time to 80%, 90% or 100%) but didn't know where to find it. Any idea why/how it determines between reporting 80, 90 or 100%? Obviously if its already over a particular level (like 80%) I understand reporting how long to the next higher level, but there were times it was at 20-25% and it would tell me how long to 100%, which was totally un-helpful regarding planning my schedule.

A couple of the last chargers I used displayed the # of kilowatts transferring, which was more like what I expected and appreciated as I could see the initial boost and exactly how much drop there was at 80% etc.

One Electrify America charger (350KW) told me it would take "5 minutes" to get to 80% when I was at about 30-40%. 15minutes later it still said it would take "5 minutes," I'm assuming this "5 minutes" was if the truck could have taken 350KW? I saw a max rate of 170KW.

At the time of my original post I was confused about the recent update that speeds up charging (compared to the first couple of years). Since I didn't own the truck yet I gave it a "speed read" and thought they accomplished it by pushing out the 80% slow-down to 90%, but now I understand that this threshold is unchanged, its a few KW more on the front end that changed, which I think the 170KW I saw means the truck has this update?

From my experience, the truck displays time to charge to the Max battery % setting.

It's the truck saying "I'm getting this much energy per hour. I need X amount of energy. At this rate, to get to 80% (or whatever it's set to), I will complete the charge at this time."


The Charge app/infotainment has a location memory. You can set a location to have the truck remember how much to charge when you are at that location. I have my home set to 85%.


There is also a Charge One-Time setting. This overrides the location charge setting. It's "This one time I want to charge to X% battery."


The FordPass app > Energy slider, I believe, acts as the One-Time setting. When I change the slider, it recalculates the time to finish charging.


The FordPass app > Energy > Target Charge is where the Location charge setting lives.


Hope that something out of your questions. I couldn't address them all.

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