It depends on the area you are in.  Where we are, our rates are fixed.  In parts of CA, their rates are much lower at night.  I'm just spitballing numbers here, but if you use 10kWh per day with this system, and the rate is $0.05/kWh lower at night, that's 50 cents a day, or $15/month.  Change that to 50kWh per day and it jumps to $75/month.  A quick search showed that the difference between peak and off-peak in CA could be as much as $0.26/kWH.  For 50kWh per day, that's nearly $400/month in savings.  That's not chump change! Now, there are losses due to heat with charging and discharging the battery, so if it's 95% efficient, your savings would only be $14.25/month instead of $15 for the first scenario.   And yeah, I'm sure there are settings for minimum charge and to easily disable it for a trip.

Interesting....I wonder how well it does/what kind of impact it makes?   Guess you'd have to try it both ways - regular charging to get a baseline figure of your bill with EV charging (naturally, your bill would go up if you were never charging an EV before), and then enabling that feature to see what king of pricing difference it makes.   I'd also assume you'd have to remember to turn that feature off if you needed it to charge for a trip or something?  I'd also guess that it'd have a setting to maintain a minimum charge level of whatever percent you put it at?

In another edition of "Ford that cried wolf," I just got a notification from the @fordbronco instagram page of "something big coming to SEMA"......and also shows a video of them removing a Bronco Raptor's suspension and engine....

You either tell it the rate structure, or you select your provider and it interfaces with their system to automatically pull the rates.     Yep.  Charge when rates are lower, power your house when rates are higher.

Hi,   I just sold my 2020 f150 v8 well optioned XLT and looking to get into another truck. Came here to read some posts on the trucks and maybe even find sales. I decided on looking for a tremor, I've found a few 23 tremor's, v8, 402A, under 40k. So I'm looking for a similar truck. I know it will be 80k+ miles but I'm open to high mileage.  Specifically like the azure grey, but I'm not having any luck with them so If I can't find one by next year I'll open my options up to black, avalanche grey,  maybe even antimatter blue, but thats kind of a last resort and I'd rather have black tbh.   Would even consider slightly over 100k for the right spec.   Currently have a 2012 Manual GT/CS, so i have a fun car already

How does it know when rates are cheaper?     So am I understanding this right - you plug it in all day, and it can decide to either pull power from the Fathom and (partially) power your house, or whether to charge the Fathom?

I got all excited myself, made a post on the dealership Facebook page, and then... nothing?   It's funny, back in 2017, maybe 2018, they very briefly had a "Suggestion Box" for dealership employees to send feedback to Ford. It didn't last long. I can't begin to imagine how unhinged some of the sales/service/parts/etc people could have been in there. I've sat in on webinars that were meant for owners/general managers and have seen some of the comments made. Let's just say... yikes. Harsh. Not untrue or uncalled for, but harsh.

I don't think CE-1 products are geared toward performance.

Isn't the rule of thumb generally multiple models on the same platform for a wider net of ROI?  While I do get the idea of not getting out ahead of their skis, I'm not sure why they'd think a single vehicle would be enough.....

They could do it that way, probably less risky, but it would basically require them to cancel the Mach-E ASAP. The Mach-E probably can’t coexist very long with an Escape EV. The latter would diminish the performance credibility of the former as people see its pretty easy to make a quick EV, and you’d rather have those 25k Mach-E sales go to the UEV platform/Escape EV. Then you could take Cuautitlan and retool it for C2…