Recent content by Tim Jodice

That's right when you are looking at a full charged battery. I am referring to when I am at the end of my commute. 7% of what is remaining is only 240 Wh. I see 240-250 Wh/mi doing 50/50 city/highway. my commute is 10/90 city/highway I am usually seeing 280-290 Wh/mi spring summer and fall...

I reset the trip odometer and at the end of my commute I divide the kwh used by the percent of capacity used. Example 17kwh used divided by .94 equals about.18.1. The few times I run it down to 1-2% left it works out as I expected. That said it is showing me about a 7% loss of capacity and at...

Still Quite happy with my car as i talked about in http://www.myfocuselectric.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=2179&start=10. I have not measured capacity in awhile and with winter approaching I decided to do it this week. Every day I measured it it came up with 18.1Kwh available, last year it...

How about using the existing battery as a thermal battery? Let's say the battery works best between 60 and 90 degrees and when you program it to preheat the car it heats up the battery to the top of its safe temperature range. In addition to making the battery probably have more capacity the...

Your anything but an idiot because if you were what would that make us that ride snowmobiles????

My experience is that 50-55 is the where the best efficiency is. It is well known what happens when you go faster so I won't go there. Going slower than 50 on my route does not help with range. This is with the climate control on 72 auto.

I have now had the car 16 months and driven 39800 miles. I have had no problems whatsoever. It hasn't needed any work except for rotating the tires and replacing the windshield wipers. My route is still the same 54 miles each way and there is the same battery margin there was when it was new...

It use mine on the same route 5 days a week 54 miles each way so I have gotten very familiar with the power consumption. Home to work is a only a 200ft elevation difference so the power difference is almost unnoticeable. Any time below 20 degrees I would arrive with about 5 Miles left. Why? I...

I have had my FFE 5 months now driven 17400 miles. In my opinion theses cars are great! With the cold here my reserve is down around 15% when it is in the 20s. That is with the CC set to 72 auto and driving around 65MPH. If the margins get below 10% I can always slow down and turn the CC down...

Has anyone tried a diesel fueled heater typically used on trucks to preheat the engine and provide cabin heat without running the engine. they are usually plumbed into the hot side of the heater core. My thought is that the electric heating element is turned on when the heat demand is there if...

I do charge level 2 at both ends.

Usually more when you factor in going to the store picking up kids etc.

I have had my focus 2 months, 8430 miles and it is everything I hoped it would be. I bought this car solely for my 54 mile each way commute, if it did nothing more I would be happy. In reality I have only driven my other car ( Ford Excursion) when the reason for the drive was to tow or carry...

I haven't used the Forum yet and based on the post here I probably won't after all we have this one. The information on the rankings is what I was questioning. today I have had the car 21 days and it has me #3 for Tour at 1634 and the car has 2016. The average Wh/mi ranking is #25 @ 320 Wh/mi...

Curious how many people check out there rankings on My Ford mobile.