Mary

This just happened to me ... I was heading out, and I put my purse in the passenger side before walking around to unplug my car on the driver's side. When I got over there, my car is locked. I only have one key fob; the dealer told me a year ago they'd send me my second one, but they never did. I had to email a friend to call my husband to have him come home (my phone is also in my purse!) so I can use his phone to call my dealership. I'm hoping they have my key fob thing sitting around somewhere and just never bothered to send it to me. If that's the case then I can send him to pick it up (I obviously don't have my driver's license to use his car) If they don't have it, then I don't know what I'm going to do, I'm in panic mode right now. I feel like such an idiot.

Thank you again so kindly for your responses. I'm a little confused about charging only to 80%, please do forgive me but I'm just not sure I'm entirely understanding. You say if I charge it fully all the time, in a few years I might lose some capacity, and my battery might last for about 6 miles less. But if I only charge to 80%, I'm definitely going to lose like 6 miles right now and do all sorts of extra work, so wouldn't it be if I do that I'd just sort of be causing a similar negative effect to my range? Oh please I hope I'm not sounding really stupid or something, I'm just sort of seeing that as like I'd be losing 6 miles either way, except one would be right now and the other would be in a few years, if I'm making sense? I've noticed my car takes like six hours or so to get my charge back up to full, that's when my power cord is showing a solid green light for "vehicle" instead of blinking, right? I didn't know I shouldn't plug in right away, what I'll do is I'll plug mine in before I go to bed. How do you get yours to start at midnight? Mine doesn't have any sort of programming on it or anything, it's just a basic plug I attach to my wall and my car, so it seems very manual to me. I probably won't be able to follow all these recommendations, I really do appreciate so much wonderful advice, but to be honest it feels just a little overwhelming to me. I'm trying to do things like I'm trying to coast and brake better, my car gives me a coaching report each time I stop as to how much energy is returned (I don't really know what this means, but I'm assuming like 99% is better than when I get about 80% or so) and I'm trying to accelerate slowly. I do think I really need to read my owner's manual more. I'm trying to figure out how to work my car's garage door opener, but I've been trying to follow those instructions but so far it isn't working.

Thank you all very kindly for your responses, you've definitely helped me very much. I'm really glad to hear my car will know when it needs to use some gas, so I should have peace of mind and not have that as another worry. I'm very glad to know this and I'm very thankful for you providing me this information! :) I don't drive very much, I work from my house so I don't have any commute or anything, and very rarely do I leave my town where I live. One of my attractions to this car was I do not very often drive more than 20 miles a day, so I thought for me this would be almost as good as if I had a full electric car, but I'll still be able to take long trips. I live like 350 miles away from my family. Oh and I did take my car on my first road trip this weekend! I went to Canada to see my family for their holiday, and I had wonderful mileage with my car. I went about 800 miles in total I think with all my driving around, and I only needed about 20 gallons of gas in total from two purchases, and I still have my gas mostly full now. I do notice I quite more enjoy driving in electric mode than I do in hybrid mode, but I'll only be taking this trip maybe once a year or something. I rarely even drive like 1,000 miles a year otherwise, lol. I didn't know I shouldn't plug in all the time. Should I only do that if I only drove a few miles, or should I not charge up even if I'm almost out of my battery power? How often should I do that, like one time in five or ten or something? I'm sort of sad to think I can't just keep it charged so I can mostly drive as an electric car, I just love how smoothly my car feels and how quiet it is when I'm on battery. Thank you again everyone, I'm really loving my car so far! Oh and I've been getting many lovely compliments from people! :)

Hi, I just bought my C-Max Energi a few days ago, and I'm really happy with it! I wanted a full electric car, but I couldn't find a Focus I've been thinking about, but my dealership set me up with this and really I feel it's almost as good and just perfect for me. I don't drive very far, maybe just around my town, so 20 miles a day is totally doable for me. But I'm very glad I can still take my car on long road trips, which I couldn't do if I had a full electric. Oh dear, well I'm sorry for rambling (I'm just excited), anyway I was sort of excited thinking I might almost never need gas. Well yesterday I was talking to my coworker, and he told me I could have a problem if I let gas sit in my engine for too long, like it can turn to glue or something, and this has me feeling a little worried. Do any of you know if this is true, and can you tell please me how you avoid problems in your car? Thank you very kindly for your help and advice.