Pulse and glide has nothing to do with battery "fullness" or regen. Pulse and glide is the idea of using the gas engine in it's most efficient mode - ie at it's peak BSFC points. The whole point of a hybrid is to allow the gas engine to operate at it's peak BSFC point much more frequently, which essentially means the hybrid system is doing the pulse and glide for you. Let's say you're cruising steadily at 40mph for 20 minutes. You could run the gas engine for 2 minutes, let it fill the battery and then run on electric power for 8 minutes, then repeat once. Or you could run the gas engine for 30 seconds, charge up some of the battery, then run on electric power for 4.5 minutes, then repeat 3 more times. Theoretically both would use exactly the same amount of gas. But actually since the energy used to charge the battery is not linear (charging when it's more full requires more energy), it's actually more efficient to do the 30 second / 4.5 minute scenario. In fact it would probably be even more efficient to do 15 second/2.25 minute scenarios, but at some point the engine going on and off too frequently just annoys people.

Every time you regen and every time you run on electric power, you are wasting energy in the conversion. It is more efficient for the engine to fire up every once in a while than to try to capture more regen energy. The efficiency curve of the regen varies with battery state of charge, the more full the battery is, the less efficient the regen is. That's why you don't want to be running around with a nearly full battery all the time. Working in the middle of the battery's range also helps preserve it's life. It will last longer than the rest of the car if you let it operate as it was designed from the factory.

Huh? The Energi was built in Hermosillo right along with all the other Fusions. Doesn't make sense that the recall doesn't apply, but it could be that the recall had already been performed.

Just another of those things that was cost reduced on the 2020.

I think the key is the system isn't related to "speed", its related to load. If you punch the throttle, it will directly engage the ICE to the wheels at 1mph and up. But if you're driving at light loads it can run the ICE to charge the battery while maintaining enough electric power to keep the vehicle moving.

I agree with you though on the tach, I started to use it when I first got the car, but quickly realized it was totally useless and haven't used it since. For the record, the RPM data comes from the crankshaft position sensor. How could the PCM run the engine timing and fuel injectors if it didn't know the exact engine speed?

Just because you don't see the future vision that Ford does, doesn't mean they're not making decisions for the long term. What's the Swedish navy going to do with all that lumber now? Build ships with it? Pretty sure they stopped making ships out of wood about 100 years ago. Thinking long term is a good thing, but if you're on the wrong path, in the long term that's going to take you much farther and farther away from reality. Trying to hedge against short term oil spikes isn't a long term strategy. Ford has seen the long term trend that people don't want cars, and has thus redeployed the investment they would have spent on them and poured it into BEV and automated vehicle technology; where the most likely future of transportation is going.

Ford is slowly introducing auto-hold on it's newer models (I think the Hybrid MKZ might have had it), but the FFH doesn't have it, so there is no automatic solution for what you're looking for.

Yes that's exactly what I'm talking about. With a conventional car and transmission, you'd match the gear ratios so that this engine runs in that 2500-3000rpm range when you're cruising along in situations that require 120kW. But with a hybrid there are a lot more options because you can vary the gear ratio and battery charge/discharge to keep it at the peak more often.

There's nothing different about the windows on the hybrid, so they should fit. But since you asked what I think, I'd say I never like those kind of window deflectors. In my opinion they look terrible, they will hurt your fuel economy, make windnoise and the Fusion and every Ford is already designed so that you can drive with the windows cracked open and rain won't get in.

I think it's the other way around. Of the 3.5 miles driven on EV, 2.9 of them were done with energy created from regen. The other 0.6 EV miles came from depletion of the battery.

I don't understand what you mean by "idles at around 2k RPM". Idle RPM is when the engine is operating but not under any load. That is somewhere around 700rpm and it won't propel the vehicle at all. In fact it is very rare for the hybrid system to ever run the engine at true idle speed. Idle by definition is never the most efficient condition for any gas engine. If you really want to understand the "sweet spot", research the concept of BSFC (Brake Specific Fuel Consumption). Generally this is how much fuel an engine takes to make a given amount of power. Most engines operate most efficiently when under load, ie full throttle, but not necessarily at high rpm. For example if you need 50hp to move your vehicle at 60mph, the most efficient engine would be one that can run at full throttle making that 50hp. That might mean a very small engine running at high rpm or a larger engine running at a lower rpm. The problem though is if at some other time you want 100hp for acceleration, that engine that makes 50hp efficiently can't make 100hp. That's where turbos and/or hybrids come in. They let the engine run efficiently at low power demands while having a reserve for when more power is needed. In the case of the hybrid it gets even more complicated, because the hybrid system can use the extra energy and store it for later. So say you have an engine that makes 50hp efficiently, but you only need 40hp. The Hybrid can allow the engine to run at it's efficient 50hp condition, but convert that extra 10hp into electricity stored in the battery. That electricity can then be used the next time you need 60hp. The engine can be run at it's efficient 50hp condition and the extra 10hp is provided by the battery. So what I'm trying to say is it is very, very difficult to determine the "sweet spot" of a hybrid vehicle because it changes all the time, based on battery charge. When you're running in pure electric mode, you generally would drive as slow as possible, since electric motors don't have a BSFC curve, they run equally efficiently at all rpms and power outputs. But then you have to balance the negative aero and rolling resistance of going faster against the power draw of keeping the vehicle running for a longer time when going slower. When the gas engine is running, you have to balance the aero and rolling resistance of going faster against the BSFC curve of the ICE engine, the conversion efficiency of the battery system and the variable drive ratio provided by the CVT. Basically the whole point of a hybrid is to eliminate the "sweet spot" completely.

Nope, but you could always pull the electric parking brake on.

Nope, I think that came in with the 2017.

The number of failed transmissions is very small, my 2014 has been 100% perfect.

It is a unique part for the Fusion. The best way to get one would be to find a used one at a wrecking yard, but I don't know how easy that is to find in Mexico. You could probably try to order one online from the US. But if you're paying for this out of your own pocket, then you might as well just leave it off. It will never save you enough fuel to justify the replacement cost. You could probably find a way to attach the electronics so that it doesn't send an error code to the computer, but just leave off the broken shutter parts.

In a 7 mile commute the ICE will be running all the time to try to heat up the car. Turn your climate control (heater) off and you'll see the battery charge drop.

Here we go again with you quoting very good articles and completely misinterpreting them. What is a modem? My definition is a device that offers TWO-WAY communication The quote you provide calls it "continuous connectivity via cellular voice and data networks". Ford calls this module the TCU (Telematics Communication Unit). The TCU is standard on every 2020 (and I think 2019) Ford sold in the US. The TCU has been available on other Ford's back to I think around 2013 with the Fusion Energi and some of the BEVs. But Ford's Sync system was around long before that and was designed around the concept of using a bluetooth enabled device to act as it's window to the cellular world. So if you define a "modem" as being able to use your phone, then I guess you win the argument, but most people don't. So let me say it again, and again, and again. Without a TCU, the Ford Sync system has no way to communicate with the outside world. The article you quote clearly is referring to versions of the Ford Sync systems in cars that do have a TCU or that are actively connected to a cell phone. But your 2014 FFH does not have a TCU. It just doesn't. That's a fact. From the 2014 Fusion workshop manual (note PHEV means plug-in Hybrid, ie Fusion Energi only): TCU - PHEV The TCU uses a non-serviceable internal SIM card to connect to a mobile phone network in order to send and receive data. When a subscription is active, the SIM card is associated with the ESN of the TCU, and the TCU ESN is associated with the VIN. As a result, the TCU cannot be swapped from one vehicle to another. The TCU relies upon network messages to gather and send information and to perform certain functions based upon remote commands from the mobile phone application or MyFord® Mobile website. The TCU requires PMI when it is replaced. If you've got a different definition of a "modem", please enlighten me. https://www.forbes.com/sites/samabuelsamid/2019/10/14/fordpass-connect-goes-fee-free-for-life/?sh=34bb908c185d "Ford was relatively late to the party in adding telematics to its vehicles. Instead, Ford followed a bring your own device approach with SYNC that let people use their phones to run various apps and provide media. While some plug-in vehicles and Lincolns got it earlier this decade, it’s only been in the last three years that it has been spreading to everything in the lineup. By the end of 2019, every new Ford should have FordPass hardware built-in."

Yes, I do know better. Those articles you quote are very vague in their explanations of the situation. If the situation involved a car with OnStar, which does include a modem, then yes, it's possible. But let me say it one more time. Your 2014 FFH DOES NOT HAVE A MODEM OR ANY CELLULAR CONNECTION so it is impossible for it to track you!!!

Let me be clear. It's ridiculous to think that you were tracked through your Sirius antenna because your car doesn't have the hardware to make that possible. You can go ahead and remove the antenna or anything else you want, but it would be totally pointless because it isn't doing what you think it is doing. I used to get all the Sirius junk mail as well, but then I moved and I didn't tell them my new address. 2+ years later and I don't get anything from them anymore, if they were really tracking me they would have figured out my new address by now since my car is parked in my driveway pretty much all the time.

In the context of the automotive world, a modem / telematics unit is something that allows 2-way communication with a vehicle. If you're still talking about a 2014 FFH, you don't have a modem and thus your car has no physical way of sending any signals back to anybody. Yes the GPS remembers where you live so that EV+ works, yes the Sirius can send signals to the vehicle to update software (not through the cell network) and you can even choose to connect the vehicle to your local wifi to download Sync updates at which point it might send some very simple data back to Ford to confirm updates (and again, only when you have manually connected to your wifi network), but that does not make it possible for anyone to send you advertising based on where you have been. If anyone sent you something based on your location, they got that through your phone and not your car. The only way somebody could get your GPS history from your car would be to physically connect through the OBD port. Now on the newer Fords that do have a modem, it certainly is possible for them to sell your location data to advertisers. In fact they've even been quite up front about that possibility but have made it very clear that if you don't want that, you can turn it off. Ford is positioning itself to be the "most trusted" company so they are taking great care to ensure the privacy of their customers. Companies are just like people, there are some you can trust and others you can't. Just because something is possible doesn't mean it will happen.

That's a ridiculous theory. The Satellite antenna doesn't have any location capability in it, and even if it did, it doesn't have any way of communicating that data back to anybody. Only the newest Fusions (and the older Energis) have a modem, and on those you can easily select not to send any data back to the "cloud", so your privacy is 100% ensured.

To really get all the features of Ford Pass, your car needs to have a modem. Your 2015 Fusion does not have a modem.

There were numerous software issues back in the 2016-2017 time frame that were causing 12V battery drain issues on the Energi. What "software update" did they do? I see a service message for the Drivers Door Module, but I think there were also issues with the TCU and some of the audio components.

Doesn't sound normal to me. Any one of the ball joints or bushings could be bad or maybe the previous owner had some incident that caused something to be bent. Doesn't sound like a tire problem at all, you need to get the car looked at by an expert.