Rodney

If it is a warm day, and the car is warmed up, it should be able to accelerate on level ground to over 40 miles per hour, but you have to really feather the accelerator. This is only for kicks but not very practical for everyday driving. I use my car for commuting with 3 others for about 110 km per day. We drive 109km/hr on the highway portion, and drive about 50 km in the city. I always get better mileage in the city, as I can coast quite often on the route without wasting time. Hope this helps

There was no service number involved, I believe this is only the 2nd vehicle they have had to fix for this EV age related problem. The first vehicle was a ford escape Hybrid. It sounds like the techs were playing around with programming and found that setting the age of the vehicle to new fixed it. This is all I was told. The service manager is hoping enough people complain about this so that Ford would issue a recall to reprogram these, as it seems like a software blunder in this day of reduce-reuse-recycle....

Great news! I just got the car home. It worked! The ford dealership in Steinbach Manitoba Canada reprogrammed my car to think it is brand new, and the EV is back completely! Back to hypermiling tomorrow! Best $60 bucks I ever spend at a dealership! Its just about the age of the car/battery, not condition of the battery. As I said before, balancing didn't fix it, nor unplugging/plugging, etc. Note I have 342K on this car and hope for 200 more! Its the best car I have ever had, sitting in heavy traffic, with a/c inching along on EV without wasting gas! Yahoo! It now has the EV section in Green, plus two more sections above it. When it was without EV mode it would only light the EV section. The fellow's name is Michael, a service manager in Steinbach. Fairway Ford, Phone: (204) 326-3412

I have the exact experience with my 2010 FFH, won't coast anymore below 47 miles per hour, engine shuts off only when the brake is pressed, and engine starts right after the brake is released. I bought the MD808Pro tool and rebalanced the HV battery, but it did not fix the problem. Also, the tool tells me the voltage of the cells, and they were very close. I called my local Ford dealership in Steinbach Manitoba, and they are aware of the trick to fool the computer to fake down the age of the battery. In fact, they had recently applied the fix to an ford escape hybrid that had the same issue. I will take it in on May 30, was told it may cost $90 for the programming. I am getting the airbag fix at the same time. Unfortunately they are not handling the recall the way they did in the USA, and do not offer loaner cars... The fellow told me that the fix restored the escape hybrid capability but not 100%; we will see how effective faking the age of the battery is. I will post once they apply the fix at the end of May. My FFH has 210,000 miles on it, and has been a great car until this EV curtailment in software.