BSull
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I'm not a road tripper, but I like to be ready for stuff, you know, just in case. So I just had to try DC fast charging. My first DC fast charging session was at a EA charging station located in Globe AZ. Fairly small only 3 or 4 plugs but I was the only one using the facility so it didn't matter. Followed the directions on the charger screen and everything worked great. I only added about 7.9 kWh since this was just a test for me and I had enough charge to get home. The truck didn't tell me squat about what was happening, the charger was my only information source. But hey, I got a notification in FordPass after the fact that my charging bundle had been reduced by 7.9 kWh.
Then I received my A2Z adapter the other day and decided to try a local (20 miles away) v3 supercharger. CarPlay navigated me to the charging location because Ford nav had no clue a useable charger was located there. Got to the location and attached the adapter. Hardest thing about that was locking the adapter and the charging handle together. Tesla app wanted my billing address updated for some reason, I had added that the other day, so gave up on that app at least for that session. FordPass was useless since it didn't show a charger anyway, so I tried plug and charge, it worked. I left the truck on since I wanted the A/C to work the truck showed Fast Charging in orange on the big screen, no other indication I was charging, how fast I was charging etc. However, SOC was updating and I had set a 60% charge limit that appeared to work. In the end, FordPass had a notification that I had been charged $6.88 for the session.
Lack of real time information in my truck especially when using plug and charge is pretty awful. Just my $.02 as a newb to this DC thing.
Then I received my A2Z adapter the other day and decided to try a local (20 miles away) v3 supercharger. CarPlay navigated me to the charging location because Ford nav had no clue a useable charger was located there. Got to the location and attached the adapter. Hardest thing about that was locking the adapter and the charging handle together. Tesla app wanted my billing address updated for some reason, I had added that the other day, so gave up on that app at least for that session. FordPass was useless since it didn't show a charger anyway, so I tried plug and charge, it worked. I left the truck on since I wanted the A/C to work the truck showed Fast Charging in orange on the big screen, no other indication I was charging, how fast I was charging etc. However, SOC was updating and I had set a 60% charge limit that appeared to work. In the end, FordPass had a notification that I had been charged $6.88 for the session.
Lack of real time information in my truck especially when using plug and charge is pretty awful. Just my $.02 as a newb to this DC thing.
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