Recent content by Electric Paddle

Frnked, Did you change your grille yourself? If so, wonder if you'd share the process. I'm short on time but still thinking of molding a new smooth cover with a license place insert for mine. Something about a grille that looks like it vents but doesn't bothers me.

Tesla super-charging, as near as I can find, is a dual Stage 2 charge system. I've not seen a reference to high speed DC charging (like the Leaf and miEv) on their website. Anybody have the skinny Tesla charging standards?

Thanks Mountaineer! I'm sure I speak for many of us- we appreciate your sharing your tidbits. This weekend I configured the accessory power screen and am using the lo temp setting with fan speed 1 to keep the windscreen clear. I have yet to use the trip 1 and 2 option but I can tell kW from...

Anybody know of a contact at Ford willing to discuss allowing a true energy display option to customers that are interested? Are we willing to band together to put some weight behind this request? I suspect that the majority of FFE early adopters are pretty well up on watt-hours and watts...

Seems clear now. Hills and heater use is indeed factored into the range indication in the Focus. As it is, I was unprepared for the magnitude of the loss, but it will make little difference as I only need 50 miles daily, thank goodness. Edison is charging to just shy of 70 miles now that I'm...

Interesting D, I assumed that those factors were removed after the car is started so that driving style and heater use shows up as minus-miles throughout the drive. Still, since this car is new I've been squirting around in it having fun. Plus we live in the mountains- lots of 2-7 mile hill...

Thanks Aldo, it got a little better today- up to 62 miles before the light ring went dark. But not what's expected. According to the dealer, I'll have to wait for the newyear to get a call back on this issue. Sure it'll get fixed but there's a struggle ahead I fear.

Just drove home my new FFE yesterday. Thanks to all you folks for helping me decide- thrilled. Sure it's a minor thing but I'm charging with the 120VAC brick until I install stage 2, and the charge door lights go off when the capacity is at 57 miles. This happened by 10:00 PM last night and...