So you just bought/ are thinking about buying a Ford EV, what do I need to know? These top 5 things right here!
Download the Ford pass app and get your new Ford EV registered onto the app with us today, we've got Sam Dorsey, which was our salesman for our Ford E-Transit. Here at Gary Crosley Ford in Kansas city, Missouri. He is gonna kind of walk us through how to get the Ford pass app on the phone and how to get your vehicle onto the Ford pass app.
Mitch, do you wanna hop in real quick and we will, uh, add, activate the vehicle. Uh, so this is what the app looks like when you're ready to activate the. So you'll see a little picture of your truck there, or in-transit Mach-E, whatever it happens to be that you're activating. All you do is hit activate vehicle here takes about 30 seconds or so we'll get a pop up here on the main screen.
There it is. And you're gonna hit yes, right there. And it's gonna say, congratulations, your Ford Pass connect has been activated. Okay, there we go. Except for the prompt. So you swipe down on an iPhone and it refreshes the app. There we go. We are activated, here's the main functionality of the app, and that's gonna allow us to unlock the vehicle.
Remote start the vehicle, lock the vehicle right there. You can also sound the horn and lights. You will get Ford pass, reward points that can be used for maintenance. When you activate the app on a gas. Ford it's gonna be 42,000 points on a diesel Ford. It will be 75,000 points on a Ford EV 22,000 Ford pass points along with 250 kilowatt hours of charging.
Time to be used at an electrify America station. You can find dealerships. If you need to find a dealership here, you can look at your points right here. You can schedule servicing here. Look at your maintenance schedule. Look at vehicle health reports for your vehicle here. Set your start times. So your car is preconditioned set the, the max limits for the charging on the, on the EVs right here on the app, pretty robust app, lots of features, lots of things you can do with your new car.
Get access to the 250 kilowatt hours of fast charging. You're gonna go to ford.com/connected services. Then you will go to your, my Ford pass app on your phone, on the very bottom of the app, you're gonna click on vehicle. You're gonna hit the dropdown menu for charging, and then you're gonna click on the blue oval network.
This shows that we still have 250 kilowatt hours of our charging balance remaining. You can view chargers. And we'll see where all of the neighboring chargers are, and we can even click it on a map feature and it'll show us where all those chargers are. There are some public access chargers that are absolutely free.
You can also select it by charge speed. You can click on Ford network so you can do Ultrafast chargers. You can do regular chargers. You can do fast chargers DC, fast charger. That is over 100 kilowatts is going to be the fastest way. It'll actually charge the van from 20% to 80% in 30 minutes, the advantages of the different drive modes and L mode.
And we're able to switch from normal mode to eco mode. It's going to lower the output capabilities. Of the vehicles heating and cooling systems. It's also gonna cut down on the vehicle's overall power output. If you're driving the lightning, you're gonna have some different modes available here. The eco mode is gonna give you the most efficient driving possible, but it's gonna compromise a little bit of power and a little bit of convenience or comfort from the heating and cooling in order to do that.
Lstands for low range mode. You're gonna find that on your shifter dial on the transit, where there's a button you can push. It's making the EV operate as if you've put a standard vehicle in low range mode. It's gonna give you a little bit more power off the line. It's also gonna bring on your regenerative.
The combination that you will use those in will have a dramatic effect on how efficient your EV runs down the road. If you want the most efficient driving, you can, you're gonna use eco mode. And then when you're in town, a heavy start and stop part of town, you'll be able to use L mode. If you're gonna be out on more open roadways or out on the highway, you're actually gonna find it more efficient to turn L mode off and just be able to coast that comes with eco mode.
You can actually. Second handedly, activate the regenerative breaking simply by tapping the brakes that greatly increases your efficiency. You can just tap the brakes and then let back off of them. The regenerative breaking will take over and slow you down. If you want a little bit more regenerative breaking you tap the brakes twice, and the regenerative breaking will just carry you all the way down to darn near a stop.
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