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Welcome! There will be LOTS of questions about Ford parts, I promise you!

Remember that the meter on the dashboard is a guess, based on recent driving habits. If you drive EV on the highway, or run the heater in the winter, range drops like a rock. If you drive carefully (not hypermiling, but paying attention), it likes that better and goes up. The "real" test is to charge up, then drive some fixed course until the battery runs out. My 2013 is still giving me about 20 miles on a charge, and I'm careful with it. EV later on the highway, seat heater instead of cabin heater, etc. I have two or three shopping/dinner trips that are right at the edge of my range; if the outside temp is perfect, I can do them all on battery. If it's too hot or cold, I can't. I'm using those trips to tell me if my battery is degrading. So far, so good, I'm at 110k miles.

The range estimate is based on recent driving pattern; looks like the previous owner had a lead foot. The real question is, how far can *you* go with it?

I'm DEFINITELY doing that next time I have to pull the damned thing! I've been scratching around looking for a fuse-and-switch combo, this is insanely simpler.

I can only suggest that you push the button on the door, and *yank* when the unlock sound happens. Brute force, yes.

*sigh*

I've got my eye on the Subaru Solterra; has anybody seen one yet?

Yeah, I get that. BUT, many of my frequent trips are long enough that I have to use gas, which I really object to. I'm mostly counting on advancing battery charge density! My DW has range anxiety, and my son can't fit in the back seat of a Volt, so here we are!

Ah, good for them!

With only a ten-mile battery, it would be a fail for me. My biggest wish is that my Energi had a forty-mile battery.

homestead asks because the Energi doesn't have the tranny problem because it has a circulation pump that that prevents the problem; they rightly assumed that the Energi wouldn't be running the ICE as much.

Have you tried both the remote and the button on the gate itself?

We had a serious mouse nest in the engine air filter on my wife's Escape.

The guess-o-meter bases its numbers on recent driving, so if you've just rolled 10 mi downhill, it might expect that you're going to keep that up. I have no idea how deep its history goes, though.

Got mine yesterday.

I've had inspectors try to tell me that my disks needed replacing, that's hogwash. We don't keep our disks polished like ICE cars do because we mostly brake with regen, so the disks look like crap. However, they work just fine, thankyouverymuch. Go somewhere else and see what they say.

That's been one of my few gripes with my Energi; why doesn't it keep the 12v battery topped up while it's plugged in? That would've saved me from more than half of my jump-starts.

The map data (at least, on my 2013) is on an SD card inserted into the slot in the hopper in the center console. Is that still the case? Did your update not include another SD card full of mapping goodness?

Thanks for the correction on the battery posts! I typed that without checking.

I'm not the expert, but I'd try to jump-start it, and if that works, drive it around. As you may have seen elsewhere, there's a + post under the hood; look for a hexagonal (octagonal?) post in the middle of the engine compartment, on the driver's side. While driving it around, look at the dashboard for clues about the hybrid battery's health. I've had a reliable repair places get scared by the orange cables near the 12v battery and refuse to replace it, so if you can drive it, drive it to Ford. Others here will likely have better advice.

As a data point, the Ford techs rendered the door handle sensors inoperative while doing the door latch recall. Always check things like this!

My Energi is my favorite car ever, and that comes from someone who owned a long string of Saabs... In any case, welcome!

No, my noise is definitely coming from the back, and is constant with engine RPM.

My 2013 Energi also makes a loud-ish sound. almost a bearing howl, from the back of the car, behind the driver, when the gas engine is running; it has been diagnosed on the late lamented Energi sibling of this forum as a noisy fuel pump, and a fairly common issue. Seems to be harmless. Certainly, it has caused no trouble in the 6 years I've owned the car, including some multi-day road trips.

On a similar note, I also bought my Energi used, and dealer had only one fob; I had them make two more as part of the sale, and neither of the hardware keys had been cut. This was resolved cleanly, but could have been trouble if I hadn't checked.