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  1. This is the same as I learned a few years ago when I was trying to lobby my then-employer to install stations at work, and as part of that I called and talked with a Chargepoint rep for 10-15 minutes and asked all the pertinent questions needed to present the pitch to my company management. They said no, but oh well I tried. The property owner is the one that owns and manages the charging station, and pays Chargepoint to run the customer network interface and back then it was about $20 per month per station that the station owner paid to Chargepoint. There were also different arrangements when it came to installation of a Chargepoint station and service/repair charges differed based on whether Chargepoint installed the stations or not. Anyway, after installation and activation, it was all up the station owner to set prices. So if the station owner wanted to make charging free for everyone they could do that... or the station owner could set up a special group (such as the employees as noted above) and let the members in that group (the RFIDs of accounts in that group) charge for free and outsiders pay 25 cents per kWh or 40 cents or whatever the station owner chose. Or the station owner could only allow the RFIDs of registered employees to charge and not outsiders at all, which is what I found last year when I went to an Oracle building for a training course and was happy to see 4 Chargepoint stations out front, but sadly my RFID wouldn't activate any of them.
  2. jeff_h

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    Well it's time to say goodbye to our blue 2013 Energi, which has been a truly great car. We bought it in Maryland on 4/19/2013 on a Friday night, and our memory of that purchase was watching the TV that evening in the dealership along with the salesman as the cops tracked down and captured the perpetrators of the Boston Marathon bombing from 4 days earlier. One of the things that I normally do when parting with a car is to take a last pic of it in my driveway, so there it is. My red Fusion Hybrid and my red Fusion Energi cars are long gone, as in 2015 I changed to a 2016 Volt to get more HVB and then in 2017 I changed again to a 2017 Bolt to get even more HVB. So there's the Bolt next to the Energi, and the Bolt's also great as I will hit the 2-year mark next month and by that time will have between 88-89k miles (will hit 85k tomorrow). I have a long commute and wanted to drive as much in EV as possible to avoid buying gas, and I definitely accomplished that. But the blue Energi is only going down the road 30 miles to my wife's best friend's house. Those who have also been on the Hybrid forum may recall that I had a 2010 Fusion Hybrid until early 2013 when it had 145k miles, then I turned it over to my wife's friend for continued TLC. That 2010 Fusion Hybrid is still running and now has 288k miles, but she says it's getting tired and may need to be retired before too long. So she will now inherit the blue Energi and my wife will leave the PHEV game for a while until more models are offered as she didn't care for what's out there now. We bought her a 2019 Equinox yesterday and she loves it, and we still have 2 plug-ins anyway as our daughter brings the 2016 Volt home from college on some weekends and breaks. It's a shame that Ford is apparently ditching the Fusion, as we've had great experiences with them and I just looked at a map and we've taken several trips across 16 states up and down the east coast and the midwest. The only negative is that I wasn't that pleased with the amount of battery degradation that we experienced with the two Energis that we had, but I guess that happens with technology that's evolving and I bet in future years that will be improved just as other parts of auto technology have been. So thanks to all forum contributors and readers, and especially the forum old timers that stick around to pass on their knowledge and help others get the most of these cars. I'll stop by now and then but my days as a Fusion Energi owner are done... Jeff
  3. IMHO you still have a long ways to go on that ICE in order to be putting in high-mileage oil... I change the oil on my wife's car and use whatever name-brand full synthetic 5W-20 is the cheapest, used to be Valvoline but for the past couple years it's been Quaker State. I've used Mobil1 but it's normally about $5 higher for the 5-qt jug.
  4. jeff_h

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    Welcome Dan - a friend of mine has a 2013 Focus and those transmissions are simply the pits! Glad you found a much better car!
  5. If the EV setting is on auto, the ICE will come on if the gas pedal is pressed more than slightly, and within a few trips you'll learn just how much it takes to get the ICE to come on. However, when it's below freezing it tends to be more touchy and the ICE will come on with far less pressure - and once the ICE is on, it's probably going to run long enough to get the emissions system warmed up. Try setting it to EV-Now before shutting it down the night before (if possible) and see if the behavior is any different, i.e., if the ICE doesn't come on as easily in the morning.
  6. In addition to the SE gas model, they did offer an SE Energi in the Fusion since 2013 (don't know if they stopped it as of 2019 only, previous year ordering guides are here on the forum too and anyone can look that up) - but they called it "SE Luxury", maybe to distinguish it from the gas version?
  7. And that's what I figure would happen with my wife's 2013 Energi, which used to have 5.2-5.7 when new and now after 5 1/2 years and 67k miles it only goes 3.2-3.5 on a charge. And that's why I will never get another one that has air cooling like the Energi or the Nissan Leaf. My 2017 Bolt is now my heavy commuter (my wife and I had twin Energis from the end of 2013 to late 2015), and on the way home today I passed the 78k miles mark and battery degradation is zero. So we are awaiting a suitable PHEV SUV for her in order to replace her Energi (but not a Tesla SUV that costs a bundle), but we definitely don't want an air cooled HVB.
  8. I just added the 2019 Energi Ordering Guide here: http://www.fordfusionenergiforum.com/topic/5608-2019-fusion-energi-ordering-guide/
  9. Here's the latest 2019 Energi ordering guide, as of Sep 2018... 2019 Fusion Energi Order Guide.pdf
  10. I agree with all of the above, go by what it shows in MFM to show "fully charged" - or does your car stop charging before the graphic in MFM gets all the way to the top?
  11. Congrats to the OP on your new ride! Once you get a few trips under your belt as the baseline established, try comparing the MPG when setting the cruise at 70mph and it will be somewhat better. You would really get an improvement by going a steady 60mph but I suppose that's too slow for those running in the daily "Rush Hour 500" - good luck!
  12. I saw a thread on BOF where one guy has an order number and VIN for a 2019 Energi, he notes it was originally and order for a 2018 so maybe there are not many new allocations for dealers yet, who knows... https://www.blueovalforums.com/forums/index.php?/topic/65546-2019-fusion-energi-order-status/
  13. 2019 Fusion production to start tomorrow, but 2019 B&P not yet on Ford's website... ugh... https://www.donlen.com/buildstart-ford.html
  14. Great! Welcome and I hope she enjoys the car, stop by often - :clapping:
  15. I brought my wife's 2013 to the dealer in June (tomorrow will be 5 weeks, which was the time for new APIM to arrive for a PP's case) and they confirmed the diagnosis and ordered and part and gave me back the car, and currently waiting on the part. The funny thing is that after 3 weeks of the APIM being inop it started working again and all appears to be fine. When the part comes in I will take it back for the APIM replacement as I don't have much confidence that the current working condition will continue long-term, but it certainly makes the longer waiting period no big deal.
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