First Ford, second hybrid car.

[Petruc4140]

Company is investing the full purchase price of my new FFH SE. This will be my second company car the company has purchased for me (the 1st being a 2007 Civic Hybrid, where the IMA battery died after 120.0k miles), any suggestions on how to keep this one alive would be welcome. It may just my given driving style, given personal car is a late model Beemer, but I would have thought the civic would have latest longer. Thoughts?

 

Also has anyone yet to experience full on, above 105 degree weather in the 2013 FFH, in bumper to bumper traffic and managed to stay cool. This was biggest complaint about the Civic. Summers in the desert where painful, unless you were constantly going above 35 mph. LMK if you experienced better results in FFH.

[ConFusioned]

Tint your windows? I have a relative in Vegas and his window is tinted dark which helps protect the interior of his hybrid and gives him some relief. His tint is illegal in that state but he says the police overlook it because its hot and lots of people do it. When he came to Southern California, it was a different story. Whenever he seen a local police car or Highway Patrol, it was a race to put down the front windows. His car engine never overheated and he parks it in a garage. I drove it at night and I couldn't see out the back or sides but he could.

[acdii]

Honda has had issues with their batteries, Ford so far hasn't. Can't say they wont though, only because these are new to the environment Lion batteries, not the tried and trusted NiMh. As long as the pack temps are kept OK, they should last the life of the car. As far as A/C, our 2010 seems to work OK, but the 13 I think is 100% off the batteries, which means if you sit in traffic the ICE will be running to keep the pack charged.

[ConFusioned]

Acdii I'm still learning, what is "ICE"?

[acdii]

Internal Combustion Engine. That doohicky that makes all that racket in these nice quiet cars. :)

[ConFusioned]

LOL Oh the doohicky under the thingy in front of the windshield where the noise comes from buried under all that stuff that requires a nuclear degree to change the whatchamacallit.

 

Gotcha

[lolder]

The 2010 AC is also all electric but the ICE doesn't run until the HVB SOC gets low.

[TX NRG]

Company is investing the full purchase price of my new FFH SE. This will be my second company car the company has purchased for me (the 1st being a 2007 Civic Hybrid, where the IMA battery died after 120.0k miles), any suggestions on how to keep this one alive would be welcome. It may just my given driving style, given personal car is a late model Beemer, but I would have thought the civic would have latest longer. Thoughts?

Also has anyone yet to experience full on, above 105 degree weather in the 2013 FFH, in bumper to bumper traffic and managed to stay cool. This was biggest complaint about the Civic. Summers in the desert where painful, unless you were constantly going above 35 mph. LMK if you experienced better results in FFH.

 

Hope you enjoy your FFH. Some of the Civic batteries were bad and you may know they had to extend the warranty beyond the original 8yr/100k miles.

 

The batteries in the new FF HEV and PHEV (same used in the C-maxs) are different and shouldn't deteriorate as much in the higher operating temps. Here's a detailed article describing their specs and cabin air heating/cooling set-up. Someone just posted this in a FF Energi thread.

 

http://ev.sae.org/article/11705

[Petruc4140]

Thank for providing the link.

[hybridbear]

Company is investing the full purchase price of my new FFH SE. This will be my second company car the company has purchased for me (the 1st being a 2007 Civic Hybrid, where the IMA battery died after 120.0k miles), any suggestions on how to keep this one alive would be welcome. It may just my given driving style, given personal car is a late model Beemer, but I would have thought the civic would have latest longer. Thoughts?

 

Also has anyone yet to experience full on, above 105 degree weather in the 2013 FFH, in bumper to bumper traffic and managed to stay cool. This was biggest complaint about the Civic. Summers in the desert where painful, unless you were constantly going above 35 mph. LMK if you experienced better results in FFH.

 

Congrats on getting such a nice company car...it seems that part of the switch from NiMH to Li-ion is because Li-ion batteries are less affected by cold, but it seems that Li-ion batteries deteriorate faster in extreme heat compared with the old NiMH batteries