As a Mustang Mach-E Owner I Disagree That Ford Supports EV Fast Charging as My Dealership Has Only One and Unconnected ChargePoint, While Salesman Says "It's Above His Pay Grade"

On my 2nd Mach e...had 21 First Edition..now have 2024 Premium and a 24 Platinum Lightning. I only charge at home on my Ford PRO Charger. All my years for gas vehicles ( HAVE MY rv Ford V10 chassis and 19 Flex).... the Rv and Flex go all over and I have never once thought... wow can't I get GAS at any Ford Dealer...like we did in 1923.... Dealers do not sell gas... if there was money to be made charging EV. I think EV owners constantly demanding access and free and.....if you are gonna drive long distances on an EV plan it out.

You can turn off the speed sign recognition in the settings on your mach e. Blue Cruise works just fine. Max for blue cruise is 80mph, and it maintains that all day on my commute through 55mph areas.

What a captivating, enticing article. Too bad the stupid AI-generated photo is not even of a Mach-E. Lazy, sloppy work! Good job.

The truth is that the Ford dealers need to get on board or get axed. When looking at both the MachE and the Lightning, the dealer is actively pushing customers away from EV and back to ICE vehicles. I can only assume it's due to the ongoing dealer maintenance revenue stream from them.

The dealership isn’t responsible for charging your car.
Would you expect them to fill your gas tank?

It is truly a sad state of affairs when you can buy every size, shape, and style of BEV's from multiple manufacturers at almost any price point, but the charging infrastructure even at some BEV dealers is woefully inadequate. With the billions spent by these companies on BEV development one would think they would invest in the "fuel" source that makes the vehicles go. Their seems to be some movement in standardization by various concerns and government investment will eventually pay off, but these measures are years away. Consumer uptake will stall until this is adequately addressed.

That is not a mach-e. Makes one wonder about the whole story.

I have 2 electric cars, a Mach E GT and a KIA EV 6. Mostly charge at home, but still have had very few problems using the occasional public DC fast charger. In the past 2 + years of EV ownership the number of DC fast chargers has increased dramatically. I live in the Atlanta metro area. Very pleased, and I still have gas cars as well, just don't drive them very often any more.

I have a 2022 Mach-E there was challenges in the beginning especially over the summer. I work in Phoenix and it extremely hot and when you get to a charge staion and doesn't work or there is an hour long line because half of the stations are broke and the ones that do work it like a slow trickle it sucks. But since my adapter came in for the Tesla charging station it was like a whole new world. I have a ton of option never had to wait never a issue charging.

As a 22 Ford F-150 Lightning owners for 2-1/2years I have had a totally different experience. But that's likely due to the area I live in (Northern Virginia) and have a charger in my home garage (used 85%+ of my charging). My area also has an abundance of DCFCs. I also trave throughout the country with the truck. I have also towed several thousand miles with a 26ft travel trailer to great success. But it takes a lot of planning. And I also have to avoid areas that dont have enough charging infrastructure. Though I have noticed chargers are coming online in many areas. There are still plenty of charging deserts. EV owners have to understand Rome wasn't built in a day. And manufacturers need to double down on charging networks. It feels like we are about 45-50% of the way there. We need L2 & L3 in certain locations to work right. Number of chargers, locations, access (including pull through), vandalism solutions and uptime. There are other secondary factors. But that's another conversation.

I personally do not like hands free driving, but I don’t understand the comment about not liking the car reacting to speed limits and shutting down as you exit an expressway. Speed limits are speed limits. And leaving the expressway in a hands free mode sure sounds scary.
This technology is pretty unproven in the real world, and there are a lot of poor drivers out there. I believe the hands free should respond to speed limits and not work on surface streets immediately after exiting an expressway.
Thanks

I’m on my second EV, 2024 Ford F150 lightning. I love the truck! My first was a Nissan Leaf. I certainly knew I was a part of a pioneering group as I used it as an everyday commuter for 5 years zipping to and fro in Metro Atlanta.

US Auto makers are a major drag on the efforts to move more people to EVs. Their infrastructure efforts are nearly nothing. Dealerships do not take it seriously at all. Public charging in public spaces is definitely carrying the infrastructure burden. Ford has not improved one bit since my initial dip into the EV world in 2013.

The premise of your position is incorrect and based on experience with ONE Dealer.
Not all Ford Dealers chose to be EV Certified. They are NOT owned or controlled by Ford; anymore than other Brand Dealers. Our 100+ year old Family had 2 original Slow Charging units... before an Investment of about $1M earlier thus year to install Three Level 3 Charging Stations (Double Sided) and Three Double Sided Level 2 Charging stations. Beyond the unit costs, their installation (and loss of former vehicle display purposes), Major upgrades were required to Our electrical systems and Utility company had to also upgrade their delivery capabilities and add a dedicated transformer.
Ford has and is investigating Billions $$$, on top of Billions $$ already Lost... due to BIDEN's/Liberal Democrats ILL-Timed, Unrealistic DEMAND for an immediate shift to EVs. The Battety technology is Not currently adequate for what is necessary to be efficient and viable; AND the Consumers are NOT ready to support sales levels to justify production costs. Especially due to an exaggerated level of Range Anxiety that ignores common sense.and Reality.
SO, before you write a Biased and Negative story, based on a singular (out of Thousands) Dealer... try some real research.

That is a MUSTANG in the picture, one that doesn't need charged,when the story is of a MACH E. Let us get this right.

So I just got home recently a 2024 Honda Prologue, My experience has been great, I ran into some problems unfortunately with my 2023 CRV hybrid, it was training to me to be all-electric anyway in my opinion, however way sooner than I expected but with continuing recalls without parts being available I became massively frustrated with the vehicle, my salesperson was also keeping in touch with me telling me how great of an experience he's having with his prologue elite.

I kept thinking about it, and thinking about it and finally decided to take advantage of the immediate $7,500 incentive toward a lease with zero down. Along with Honda loyalty incentives and other money. So I was immediately nervous though wondering oh my god I'm not going to at home charge! I live in a public garage in my building in Chicago, but I learned quickly through my friend at the dealership who's been great, and watching YouTube I was given $750 toward eviego charging, and there are plenty of supercharged EV goes and trickle chargers throughout my shopping areas in Chicago land I also was able to get from lectron, the wonderful Tesla adapter to charge it Tesla superchargers which I've already done once and that was a great experience however many of the Tesla charging stations which are vast are not public they're private.

It's been stressful but the car is absolutely solid and fantastic and I believe GM and Honda have done a fantastic job with this vehicle.

I do believe however, we need more innovation and from what I'm reading and learning there is that and it's on the way with more dense batteries coming from Honda, Tesla and many others it's only going to get better, so I'm so glad I only leased it until 2027 because by then it's all going to be even better. I do have to plan out my days a little bit differently because I can't just pull up to a Shell station, and in less than 15 min have a full tank and ready to rock and roll now it takes 35 to 40 minutes to go from about a 40% battery to 80% but with the supercharger.

It would be nice to have 400 miles of range not just under 300, also I don't like how the power trickles down way low as you pass 85 %rhen again from 93%to 100 my god it's like 57 KWs to 14 nuts so getting to 100 with a battery have a great lunch date! Then go get your car.