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I had a very bad experience with the first software update for my 2013 FFE this summer: the install script wiped out most of my settings and didn't restore them, requiring about six hours' work to re-research and reinstall them. I have taken this up with senior people at Ford, noting that any...

If you bought a 2013 Ford Focus Electric in 2012, the old rules apply, and you or your tax advisor must calculate the allowable Colorado tax credit from the manufacturer's incremental price, which is unpublished. I have just obtained it from Ford, and it is $14,304 for that year and model. You...

Last week my Ford dealer installed the 3.5.1 software upgrade in my '13 FFE. The installation wiped out nearly all my users settings for every aspect of vehicle operation, Sirius channels, wallpaper, phone links, MyFord Mobile account, wallpaper, you name it...everything but the FM channels and...

Our tax preparer says the 2013 FFE we bought 31 Dec 2012 is not listed among the many approved models for the $6,000 Colorado tax credit, even though according to the rules it should qualify as a Category 1 EV. The Colorado rules document says to write the Colorado Dept of Revenue in such a...

Ford Corporate tells me that for my 2013 FFE, "the charger power factor requirement (PHEV & BEV) is minimum 0.985 tested at full power. The end of line data typically reports 0.99x." Good to know it's that near unity. They didn't say whether it's leading or lagging, but I hope measure that soon.

This costs $200 (including its skeleton physical key, which is optional) and you must take the car and all existing fobs to your Ford dealer for a half-hour of reprogramming.

Living at high altitude where I need snowtires for safe driving, I'm about to install top-rated Michelin X-Ice Xi3 snowtires, which are virtually identical (including Green X-family low rolling resistance) to the factory original tires but are great on snow and ice and reportedly quite good in...

A local Mr. Electric Installer—the franchise that installs the Ford-badged Leviton EVSE with a 10-y extended warranty if you pay $1,500 to Best Buy's Geek Squad for the turnkey package offered and promoted through Ford EV dealers—told me that his OEM-approved SPX trainer had told an installer...

A senior person at Ford Corporate has told me that the TPMS is barometrically compensated, so when interpreting TPMS alarms, one need be conscious only of tire temperature (10 F˚ of temperature rise or fall changes pressure by about 1 psi), not also of altitude. Nifty! I suggested the manual say so.

In my new 2013 FFE, I notice that some accessories like the HVAC fan and seat-heaters report to Other rather than Climate loads on the MyView / Accessories screen. I'd like to understand the circumstances in which their energy use later shows up as a range reduction because the traction battery...

This cable, carrying a maximum of ~1.4 kW to my 2013 FFE while I get a 240V charger, is very handy as a slow expedient. Anyone wanting a second one won't find it listed online in the fordparts.com database (I've asked them to fix that), but they tell me it's part #FM5Z-10B689-A and lists for, I...

I tried to do something simple on my new 2013 FFE and can't figure it out: enter a phone number and name it. I can see how to enter a number from History, but then not how to name who it is. I can see how to download my iPhone 5's phonebook, but won't be able to because it's too big (~8k...

My 2013 FFE uses a Ford SD card to enter the map database into the Navigation system. It works fine. However, to avoid tying up a USB port with a stick containing music (so I can play it with or without my iPhone), I wonder if it might be possible to copy the map database onto my own larger SD...

My 2013 FFE has a very large number of fuses in three boxes, eight current ratings, and several different physical sizes/types. I haven't yet opened the boxes to see if there are any in-place spares. If not, I'm inclined to keep in the glovebox a small set of spares for at least the kinds that...