Buggs1a

Thanks all for being part of this discussion. I’m getting better. I love so much for coming home from Safeway I use no gas. It’s so awesome. And I love some trips have been 85 MPG or 55.5 MPG etc. in the 40s though mostly. It’s a bummer that when I go to my parents it’s got a few big hills. So I get around 35-37 MPG. It varies though. Sometimes I’ll get 40 or so. Other times 37 or so. In the Empower screen it says 43 mpg avg. is that for the tank? Does the car know when you fill it up and reset that? Is there a way to reset avg mpg for since I got the car and not the entire life of the car? How could I keep track from when I got it?

Is it ok to just leave the car in cruise? I have eco cruise on. Or should I manually drop out of cruise to try to kick in ev? I want to just drive and not babysit the thing trying to get into ev as much as possible. I know I can but at what cost.

Thank you so much everyone for conversing with me. This is a great place and I appreciate all of you very much. Two posters above me. My cruise is like that too. I don’t think it’s smart enough. Because when I tap the break the ev comes out and I can drive in ev. It’s weird. Makes me nervous I’m not in ev when I should be. I would love to just drive and not worry about ev. But then my gas mileage would probably suck compared to me paying attention to the empower screen.

That didn’t have anything to do with my last question. But ya I know a hybrid uses gas and a lot of my driving or most is in hybrid and some in ev. What does EV and HIV or whatever stand for?

I have another question. I’m getting a bit better. Even drove from Safeway to my old house for a neighbor. Used no gas. Said 999.9 mpg lol. But once out of parking I turned right and a hundred feet or so was a light. Across the street was all down hill. Three quarters of the way down I turn left into culdesac and his house just a bit on the right. That was awesome. I-5 here sucks. There’s so many hills and the gas is on a lot off and on. But here’s my question. Why won’t the computer in cruise control know when to be in ev mode? I have to tap the break to go out of cruise then the ev bars come and then I enable cruise again or just my foot. Cruise works going to ev downhill after a climb but the computer just seems stupid.

I have already seen your vids. ^^^ I’m getting better. I just drove 22 miles on I-405 north and south in Washington state. Horrific traffic. Worse then city driving. Stop and go for more then half the trip on freeway. I got 49.9 mpg for my trip home. But most of that was way easy since I could only go 5-20 mph and stop a lot. How annoying. On the trip to where I was going it was in the 40 - 45 mpg range. Same stop and go but a bit more driving a bit faster. So I’m slowly starting to get it. I just wish the battery was a lot bigger to be in electric more. And acceleration is so incredibly slow if I want to stay in ev mode.

I can’t afford it either. My parents got me the Acura 2004 mdx Touring back on feb 10. I don’t like a couple issues it has. My dad took it for a test drive. Came back and said he looooves it and wants to make me a deal. So after thinking on it he offered me $10k and would buy me a replacement car but anything over $10k I have to pay back. So I got the cmax. I need the hybrid for gas mileage. I am on disability so I don’t get much money. Less gas the better. In the Acura MDX I had I’d fill up about 150-170 miles or so. That’s highway driving. So with the cmax I can get double that basically. Hopefully I’ll learn to drive better and get 400 miles on one tank.

I don’t have anyway to plug in a car.

I drove last night to Safeway. 5am. No ev at all. It’s 0.7 miles away. When I came home I put the touch screen on the screen that shows the car. It said gas on because of heater. So I turned off heater down below by pushing the on off button. Then ev was on the whole way home pretty much. It was maybe 40* outside. When I shut off my car it said 0.7 mile total. 0.5 in ev mode. Is that good? Seems the heater being on is why my car won’t be in ev mode when I first turn it on. But why does it go to ev mode later when the heater is still on if it’s on when I first start the car then leave?It’s set 68* both zone. Is the battery for driving too small to run the heater and be in ev mode? Ford should have put in a bigger stronger battery to let us drive in electric more. Or is that why there’s the energi car? Is it possible to charge the battery by installing something? Like a mod that would keep it over say 75%? Then maybe it could be in ev more? What does it take to accelerate at a decent clip and still be in ev mode? When no ev mode and I got to Safeway it said mpg was 11.4. That’s horrible.

$1500 is a rip-off. $600 just for nav is too. I wonder if 4dtech is just some kids charging unfair whatever they feel like it prices.

There is a site who sells only Ford stuff. They have the sync 3 without nav for $1500 and $600 extra for nav. 4dtech. They have videos showing how to do it and it looks easy. They say it keeps ALL features and screens etc. I don’t know anything.

Thanks guys. I can’t think of any problem right now.

I saw your vids. _^^^^^^ I don’t get it. My car won’t be in ev when I start it and take off. It takes awhile. This seems like it needs to be warmed up. And it’s not using much gas when sitting and warming up after you turn it on. Please will someone answer this directly? Shouldn’t you be in ev mode from turning on the car till you go uphil, push hard on gas or go past a certain speed? If not why ? Is hybrid totally different then what I just asked? I have always assumed with hybrid you’re using electric mode unless the above question conditions were met. This seems wrong. I’m confused. Does the battery not have enough power to go past 15 mph when going? I know it can be in electric faster but I don’t understand this it only runs in electric up to 15 mph then switches to gas.

Should I let the car warm up before driving? That’s what it sounds like. But Ford says not to. I don’t remember where I read that. Here’s an example of how ev is so weird. I’ll go to my parents two days in a row. One day the car says total trip 2.9 miles. That’s how far they are. 1.1 mike in ev. Is this good? The next day it says 2.9 miles with 0.3 miles in ev. Why such a huge difference? I drove the same way. I don’t push hard on bags. Break in the 90s usually. I don’t get it. I live in Washington state. Burien. Part of the greater Seattle area. King county.

Should I let the car warm up before driving? That’s what it sounds like. But Ford says not to. I don’t remember where I read that. Here’s an example of how ev is so weird. I’ll go to my parents two days in a row. One day the car says total trip 2.9 miles. That’s how far they are. 1.1 mike in ev. Is this good? The next day it says 2.9 miles with 0.3 miles in ev. Why such a huge difference? I drove the same way. I don’t push hard on bags. Break in the 90s usually. I don’t get it. I live in Washington state. Burien. Part of the greater Seattle area. King county.

Thanks all. Sorry I not responded till now. Busy and not sleeping well. I’ll post more later but will say now that my car fax is clean and says no recalls.

I have a concern about my car and questions. I'm better with writing then I am talking because I can think more clearly. I've read articles and seen videos about people getting up to about 40 mpg in my car. 2013 C Max Hybrid SEL. Video shows EV on when accelerating and going fast. My concern is that I am not sure my car is working as it should when it comes to EV. Here's why. My car does not say EV very often. I'm not going fast. I'm not pushing hard on the gas. I'm not going up hill. Yet EV does not show most of the time. In the touch screen it has that screen that shows you the car and tells you what is going on with the battery and engine. It will sometimes say I am using electric but the gauge behind the steering wheel does not show EV. Also in that touch screen screen it will say I'm running in gas because I'm accelerating. I don't understand this because even going 15 miles per hr and gently pushing on the gas pedal it should still use electric. What's the point then of having electric when it's only used when stopped fully and sometimes when coasting? Yes that's right. I said sometimes. A lot of the time I coast the gauge behind the steering wheel will not show EV. My understanding is when below a certain speed it's on electric. Unless you're pushing the car hard with hard accelerating or up a big hill. But other then that it should be in electric. I drive 30 mph or less or so and not pushing hard at all on the gas pedal. It should be electric. But more then half the time it's not. I think the gauge behind the steering wheel is not working correctly maybe. Why? Because it doesn't say EV when the touchscreen shows I'm running in electric sometimes. Or the touchscreen is not accurate. And I think something is going on with the car being it's not in EV mode when I think it should be. I know I don't really know much about this technology. I'm ignorant or something. But I do know what I've seen in a video and what I've read about it and of course my own opinion and how I drive. I'm confused big time. I'm trying to drive so I'm in electric ev mode but it seems I can't do anything to do that. It's all over the place. Also sometimes it will not say ev and then I'll take my foot off the gas for a second. Then ev shows. Then I'll push the gas a little and ev stays on for a tiny bit. That seems weird.

Hello?

Hello?

I’m getting used to it but man it sure would be nice to make it less touchy.

Anyone please?

Anyone please?

I thought there is a way to make it soho I have to push a bit more on the break in any vehicle. There’s got to be a way to do this. Ugh.

I think I got it. On the controls under the touchscreen I hit the button that has a windshield above a person. It came on and got more of the windshield I guess.

Yesterday I just got the 2013 c Max SEL fully upgraded except no rain sensing wipers and no parking help. Is there any reason to reset the touchscreen back to factory default? Should I?