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While city driving provides more regen opportunities, highway driving is not free from regen. Coasting applies regen, just not as aggressively as braking does. That said, while regen likely helps with warming the battery, the warmed coolant needed for cabin heating gets circulated through the...

From seven years of driving a Focus Electric, which has no battery preconditioning, I can reasonably say this is true. Had one experience a few years ago on a pretty cold day (-10C/14F). Would need to charge to make it home, but didn't do so upon arrival when the car was warm as we had an...

Love those ideas, especially the gas pump. ⛽ My Focus Electric fits in the garage, but there are times it needed to be charged outside, so we mounted the FCSP/EVSE just inside the garage door so it's 18' cord reaches the port when it's in the garage as well as reach when parked outside. The...

Living in the Greater Toronto Area, where more salt is used on roads than asphalt, not to mention the pre-emptive brine spray they use before a snowfall that generates a fine white dust that seems to magnetically stick to vehicles, we've had no issues with nearly 2 years of Lightning use and...

There's a couple of things at play when it comes to limiting when your vehicle will charge and when it will draw a small amount of power to keep things warm. The first is the vehicle's charge schedule (if configured) and the second is what your EVSE can control. The Lightning's schedule will...

Same here - the Play Store is showing 5.11 still. Perhaps I should fire up the Fake GPS app and try it from "somewhere else". 🤣

Keep hoping. Since having my Focus Electric since November 2017, I continue to get these "reminders". Additionally, when I did take it in for the recommended service checks (I had the maintenance plan that covered these for the first 120,000 km), I would ask what the service involved each time...

Friction brakes are needed to bring the vehicle to a stop once your speed drops low enough for regen to lose its effectiveness - at about 2-3 mph. That said, it will be quite a time before you will need a full brake job. Just make sure they occasionally get serviced and adjusted to help with...

True. The zero production February was due to the battery fire in their lot - probably when my wife's Lightning was there

Either that is the optimistic point of view or Ford's getting more efficient at what they do between building and delivering. My wife's 23 Lariat had a blend date of January 22, 2023 but it wasn't delivered until the end of May, and Toronto is somewhat closer to Michigan than Chilliwack is. 😉

Yes it does, but when you use the brake pedal, the truck decides how much and when the friction braking will be used. Much of this depends on how much pressure you apply and also what speed the vehicle is going (i.e. the blend for the pressure applied varies a bit with speed). The vehicle will...

Agreed. But "should" and "is" don't always match in real life. 🤣 The other weird thing I find with the Tesla app is that sometimes when I click on "Fina a Charger", it drops the map centred on Africa, with Burkina Faso in the middle. Not always, sometimes centres it where I am, but does this...

I don't know what the environment/layout is where you work, but my wife works in a place where she can't have her phone with her for security reasons. Not data security, just security in general - employees can't wear clothes with pockets, if you get what I mean. That said, their locker room is...

I did that when setting it up:

Correct me if I'm misremembering this, but I recall about a year or so ago there was an OTA update that changed it to what many want: leaving in Sport mode the next time the vehicle is turned on. Trouble was, it was against the regulations and they had to issue a safety recall. Getting the...

The Electrify Canada app will be needed in Canada. Also, Plug and Charge does not appear to work at EC with the FordPass. If it does, someone please tell me the secret to getting it to work! Also, since we now have the Tesla adapter (arrived on December 24 in the box saying "Our Gift just for...

I missed commenting on this. I had to travel to Ottawa back in October on business and did so in my FFE. It cost me about $37 to get there and $28 to get back, and found this in terms of cost: Electrify Canada was the most expensive, with the location in Kingston at $0.70 per kWh (plus tax)...

I'm just north of Toronto and have over seven years of experience finding charge locations for my Focus Electric. Trust me, with its 160 km (100 mi) range, the need to find locations has been more critical than it is with the Lightning. Plug Share is, IMHO, the best app for finding places and...

When you change which TPMS sensor is on each wheel, the Lightning needs to know which tire is reporting individually because the system reports tire pressure for each tire. My FFE only tells me that a tire is low - no actual pressure reading and no indication about which tire is the problem. So...

It seems to me that posts here involving inquiries tend to be from those who already tried the local dealership route, some multiple times with frustration. Now they are hoping that posting might bring it to the attention of FoMoCo. Sadly, it doesn't seem to help.