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A plug in electric car in the driveway!
Topic Started: Jun 23 2016, 11:30 AM (551 Views)
donsm60
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Btw Brewster,

While it does sit low compared to what we’re used to especially my truck, it’s the feeling of having to bend down to get in that’s a little weird. Once in sitting lower doesn’t bother me and being a bigger guy too it is really comfortable with plenty of leg room.
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I think you made a great choice Don based on your deal and the reason you went this way. As you stated, you get to experience the ins and outs of this technology and hand the car back at the end of the lease. And with this technology growing in leaps and bounds, in three years you will have a great understanding of what you will need and have the leg up on the rest of we procrastinators. I like the strategy.
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Thanks Pat,

The sticker on it was over 38k and from what I can tell equipped about 3k over the Ford Red Carpet lease offer only available on the SE model. The total factory discount using every incentive (until 7-5) is $5628 which we qualified for most of.

It’s easy to search a dealers inventory anywhere in the country and in all of Florida only a couple close had the qualifying SE Energi in stock and those that did were clueless to the factory offer. I guess at our age running businesses for a couple decades negotiating with a dealership especially the sales people becomes easy. Take the offer or leave it no big deal…

I will say as a consumer interested in the electrics for a while the two things that sold me buying a Fusion was the comfort first then the deal ($$), factory money available. Like you said, what will be available 3 years from now will probably blow it away and didn’t care what the residual was with no intention of keeping it. Tomorrow it goes in for window tint ($200) and that’s all the money I’m putting into it besides gas and charging with no disposition fee.
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It's not an electric car if your putting gas in it. It would be a hybrid I'm guessing for half the price or less you could have converted the gas vehicle you were driving into a pure EV.
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Made a mistake in my numbers yesterday deducting the lease cash required from the discounts/incentives available in our region until 7/5. Ford is offering a total of $9007 if you qualify for everything and $3379 cash down is required to get the $159 a month 36mo lease on a "base SE". Besides not finding a lot of SE models available, everyone I did find was equipped well over the base but reading EV sites still the best factory deal currently available.

Stayed close home today only driving a total of 23 miles on short trips and got 17 miles on electric only with it hot out and the air on, and did sit parked with the air on for around ten minutes running on electric only. If I understand it correctly and not saying I am (yet), the 23 miles driven and 10 minutes park equaled a 359 MPG value.

Having a manual to read while sitting in the car going through the screens would be helpful and should have it next week. One of the common complaints I read was the difficulty trying understand it and will agree it’s not user friendly especially without a manual in hand! Monday will be about a 130 mile drive round trip mostly highway so that will be a good test and plan to leave it in Auto EV mode starting with a fully charged battery.
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Btw. It is considered a “plugin hybrid” if you want to get technical that has an electric only drive mode.

Still have my 05’ F350 diesel for work if anyone wants to give an accurate price on converting it into a PURE EV? :smile:
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Btw. It is considered a “plugin hybrid” if you want to get technical that has an electric only drive mode.

Still have my 05’ F350 diesel for work if anyone wants to give an accurate price on converting it into a PURE EV? :smile:
I don't know how efficient an electric car would be lugging around the weight of a gas engine along with it's already heavy batteries.

As to the conversion, let me throw a few links your way.

http://www.evwest.com/catalog/

This is what I'd like to get for a Ford Ranger

http://www.evwest.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=8&products_id=53

You might need this one for your F350-

http://www.evwest.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=8&products_id=213

Don't forget the batteries-

http://www.evwest.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=4
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An update from today. Tomorrow will be a better test mostly highway and slowly figuring it out...

Started with a full battery charge driving in heavy stop & go traffic for a total run time of 1.32 hours and 44.1 miles getting 78.8 MPG.

As an example of the learning curve this picture is one of the 3 dash screens that has several different modes to read it alone and the trip seems the easiest to understand.


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