guyofthesky
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I now have a little over 20k miles on the FE Mach E (AWD, big battery). I like the car a lot. Charging rates start at about 125 kw and taper to 80-90 kw at maybe 70% SOC. It corners well, is reasonably quick but not stupid fast, is quiet and comfortable. No issues so far mechanically. I get a lot of "thumbs up" on the road. It has a high quality build, and there are Ford dealers in a lot of places. Not all Ford dealers are EV certified, so check that if you care about dealer network...Uggghhh!!!! I promised myself I wasn't going to post again, but against my better judgement, here I am again... Yes OxBrew, I saw the article you posted. Twice. Within the same 24 hour period. I know you really wanted to be sure I saw that click-baity article you posted. I can't say I was all that impressed. Damning it is not. So the author "reverse-engineered" the battery conductive thermal path based on a YouTube screen shot from a Sandy Munro video, and then came up with a table of made up "thermal bottleneck score" numbers to provide evidence for his hypothesis about some performance issues he read about the Mach E on the internet. Apparently he is able to spot an engineering defect just by creating a simple math model from pictures in a YouTube video which the engineers at LG with their fancy finite element models missed. Is he correct? It certainly is possible, but his analysis is based on a pretty flimsy set of data, and he doesn't even share his math. As such, I am not going to draw any hard conclusions from this one-dimensional analysis. What matters to me is how the car performs in the field. Yes, there are indeed some reports of reduced acceleration during "aggressive track-style driving." But I don't drive like that, so why should it weigh into my decision? And the slower DC fast charging rates? These have been noted too. Not a deal-breaker for me since I will be doing most of my charging at home. And honestly, it's not that much slower than Tesla. Anyway, Ford is promising an update to improve the charging curve. The slower charging curve has been attributed to Ford being more conservative, not because of some defect in their thermal design. I do enjoy studying the engineering that goes into these vehicles, and have seen and enjoyed all of Sandy Munro's videos on the Ford and Tesla (please don't send me the "thermal nightmare" video, yes I've seen that one too). But that insideevs article? Pretty thin gruel.
Regarding your comment about the Mach-E battery being "identical to the Chevy Bolt that is currently under 100% recall," that's just pure FUD. The article you forwarded states that the two battery packs use the "same conceptual architecture" but you go a step further and claim they are "identical" and then lump them together with the Chevy Bolt recall. What are you trying to imply? That if I buy the Mach E my house will burn down? Because that is what I think I am meant to infer from your post.
Ok, this sock puppet is signing out. Hopefully for real this time!
I believe Tesla makes a fine car, if you can, I suggest driving both of them, ideally for an hour or two.
EA's charging network isn't yet as good as the Tesla Supercharger network, but it works fine and is getting bigger and better quickly. The recently passed infrastructure bill has $7.5 billion in it for EV charging, and that's a lot: EA hasn't yet spent $3b on their network, so $7.5b added in will be significant. Also, I believe that Tesla will open up their network to we CCS users, because that will allow Tesla to get some of that $7.5b. But Tesla hasn't done that yet...
Either car is a good choice. I am very happy with my choice. fwis