No heat pump last I checked.napoleonbot wrote: ↑ How is the heating, i know it is wrong question for this kind of weather. Is FFE a heat pump heating or resistance based
The Ford Focus Electric Thread
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- mr_raider
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I wouldn't do it. Doesn't make sense.Allaboutthedeals wrote: ↑ What would you guy do in my situation? I live In North Bay and I have no Ford Dealers that can work on Focus Electric because they are not certified. Would you still lease the car if knowingly they couldn't fix the car. On top of this. I don't have enough range to get it fixed in Toronto.
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- neptune
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For those from the first few pages of this thread who placed orders, have you heard anything from the dealers yet about order status? Anyone follow-up with their dealers? Its been a few weeks. Wondering how long it takes for the dealer to know specifics like order #, ETA, etc.
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Picked up my new 2017 FFE last night from Thor motors in Orillia.
Salesperson was a great guy to deal with, Nathan Brown, nbrown@thormotors.com
Car wasn't fully charged, so I stopped at the Pearson to get quick DC top up.
Unfortunately, now what I think about it, pretty sure there's some water in the charging port, and charger would stop after couple minutes.
So made my way to Ikea in Etobicoke, and got up to 50% in about 10 minutes.
I've built my own high speed e-bike 4 years ago, plus drove few EVs at the autoshow, so FFE is exactly what I expected to be.
Nice, quiet, effortless.
Will post more details later.
Salesperson was a great guy to deal with, Nathan Brown, nbrown@thormotors.com
Car wasn't fully charged, so I stopped at the Pearson to get quick DC top up.
Unfortunately, now what I think about it, pretty sure there's some water in the charging port, and charger would stop after couple minutes.
So made my way to Ikea in Etobicoke, and got up to 50% in about 10 minutes.
I've built my own high speed e-bike 4 years ago, plus drove few EVs at the autoshow, so FFE is exactly what I expected to be.
Nice, quiet, effortless.
Will post more details later.
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xrvr wrote: ↑ Picked up my new 2017 FFE last night from Thor motors in Orillia.
Salesperson was a great guy to deal with, Nathan Brown, nbrown@thormotors.com
Car wasn't fully charged, so I stopped at the Pearson to get quick DC top up.
Unfortunately, now what I think about it, pretty sure there's some water in the charging port, and charger would stop after couple minutes.
So made my way to Ikea in Etobicoke, and got up to 50% in about 10 minutes.
I've built my own high speed e-bike 4 years ago, plus drove few EVs at the autoshow, so FFE is exactly what I expected to be.
Nice, quiet, effortless.
Will post more details later.
Nice! Enjoy!!
Now is all the batteries for this car in the trunk? Or are there some under the floor?
Peeons with power trips. LOL
- xrvr
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This is for 2012, pretty sure 2017 is almost the same.
"The Electric Focus has an upper battery and lower battery service disconnect, so it also has two High Voltage Batteries
#2 is the high voltage battery, located behind the rear seatback and under vehicle.
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- hoc022
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Where do you get the deal $8400 for 3 years lease? Mine is about $9500.
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Depends on the incentives and rebates you have. If you have both Costco and Auto show rebates then it should be under $8k.
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Looks like there's so much space in the front seat area, not sure why the battery wasn't put in there. That might've saved the trunk space.xrvr wrote: ↑ This is for 2012, pretty sure 2017 is almost the same.
"The Electric Focus has an upper battery and lower battery service disconnect, so it also has two High Voltage Batteries
#2 is the high voltage battery, located behind the rear seatback and under vehicle.
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Used Ikea fast DC charger this morning again, before going to work.
Took one double-double and 20 minutes of checking social media.
Took one double-double and 20 minutes of checking social media.
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- neptune
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Just posting this again... has anyone heard updates yet from dealers?
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- napoleonbot
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This remind me to ask if it worth to get electric only model, namely get a purposely built electric car.
It seems FFE is only a swap-over car, that many chassis and body structure retain the gas model, and rolling centre weight distribution are not optimized.
Battery is the heaviest (most densely) part, it should be located well at the bottom of chassis.
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- neptune
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Utilizing existing chassis and design = cost savings = cheaper car. Compared to purpose-built EVs like Leaf, Tesla, Bolt, etc. - those are considerably more for the same features/options partly because of the bespoke design.napoleonbot wrote: ↑ This remind me to ask if it worth to get electric only model, namely get a purposely built electric car.
It seems FFE is only a swap-over car, that many chassis and body structure retain the gas model, and rolling centre weight distribution are not optimized.
Battery is the heaviest (most densely) part, it should be located well at the bottom of chassis.
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EVs that have been designed from the ground up do tend to have the batteries laid along the floor (Teslas, i3 and the bolt come to mind quickly). It really helps for keeping a low centre of gravity and very even weight distribution. Though in general they are more expensive these cars.napoleonbot wrote: ↑ This remind me to ask if it worth to get electric only model, namely get a purposely built electric car.
It seems FFE is only a swap-over car, that many chassis and body structure retain the gas model, and rolling centre weight distribution are not optimized.
Battery is the heaviest (most densely) part, it should be located well at the bottom of chassis.
- joshmxpx
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