jmueller065
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I have to respectfully disagree: We were the alpha testers. I wouldn't consider the FFE's implementation beta level by any means!guruuno said:Quite frankly, we were the beta testers.
I have to respectfully disagree: We were the alpha testers. I wouldn't consider the FFE's implementation beta level by any means!guruuno said:Quite frankly, we were the beta testers.
JTCalif said:My wishes, in next EV: better visibility (less blind spots), a bit more range, more efficient heater, and ... a manufacturer that clearly cares about the car. Should make enough, advertise them, and improve the design in time. Would be good if Ford corporate asked what I thought of the car (as they make so few), and if I have recommendations.
lespen said:During the harness replacement a number of broken and damaged parts were discovered. Ford declined the warranty work because of the damaged parts. After 2 1/2 weeks I had to pay $3200 to get the car back on the road.
Bill said:I could have taken the car in right away, but I live in a mostly rural area, and I was closely monitoring what was happening with making notes on my iPhone (mileage mark, time, when the SSN alert happened). Then, I became curious as the timing of the SSNs changed. I told the Ford folks all of this. The SSNs only happened at stops. The few times with people behind me, they had wait 13 or 14 seconds until the car re-set.
The problem isn't that your car isn't charging the battery. The problem is that is doing something when the car is off that drains your 12V battery dead. I had this happen to my FFE with faulty EVSE. The EVSE had a false GFI trip so it wouldn't supply 240V to the car. Well the car realizing it was plugged in was running one of the coolant pumps. Since those pumps run off the 12 system and there was no incoming current to charge either battery you can guess what happend... I burned up a charger trying to simply charge the 12V back up. The problem was that pump was still trying to run and my battery charger couldn't handle the load of the pump and charging the battery.nuuk1 said:Ford Focus Electric 2012, 53,000km logged and no troubles till now.
I have been reading for years now on this forum and still i ask what is causing the battery not to charge? Apparently my battery was tested and it works fine, even after 3 years, therefore i assume its something that is not charging the battery. So i am asking what do i tell them at ford to look at since they have no clue.
I think this is the smoking gun to your problem! This kind of gives us a hint that you may have a fault in the charge port or related circuits/modules. If the car thinks its plugged in and it really isn't, it may be trying to run pumps or other 12V systems that would otherwise be fine to do when plugged in and the EVSE is energized since the HV battery would be charging and the DC-DC converter would be on to charge the 12V battery and run the 12V systems. Good luck. Hopefully you get some savvy techs that can exorcise the demons. Keep us informed with what happens.nuuk1 said:One problem i noticed when i got the car back 6 months ago was that frequently the car when i started it would ask me if the car was still plugged into the charger? i had to answer no and press start again to start the car. This problem never happened before.
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