Not sure if this will help if you're charging from a wall socket but for our PHEV I completely ignore all of the Ford settings on the car or app and instead just get the Zappi to control the charging - which works well for us - 12:30 to 04:30 for our cheap rate electric. If you're not using a charger hopefully someone else can help!

 

I am using a normal 13 amp socket. Didn't think it was worth an EV charger as they don't seem much faster than the normal socket.

 

Think I'll end up using my own timer on the 15 amp socket. Great with a £40K car isn't it. If I'd known that the ford software was so abysmal in general I would certainly not have purchased a ford. The fordpass app is like it was developed by a 12 year old child with learning difficulties!!

 

Think I'll end up using my own timer on the 15 amp socket.

I have a smart plug on mine…. 1-7am, or “Hey siri, charge the car”…

had mixed results with the built in, much like you.

 

If you’re charging from a three pin plug it will take slightly longer than 5 hours so because of that, as soon as you plug it in, it will start charging as your timed schedule is not long enough. Set to it to start at 12 and finish at 6 and then it will charge as scheduled. The same happened to me when I first got the car. If you’ve changed the schedule to longer and it still does it then press the left hand button next to the plug once. That will solve it.

 

Thank you but that is not it because at the moment I am 80% charged and the screen on the car is telling me that the charge will start at 12am and finish at 1-03 am. Initially I did schedule 6 hours and it made no difference.
I will try the button you mention I didn't try that because I thought that button overrode the preferred time settings. There is no information on that in the user manual.

 

Ah I was assuming that you were charging from empty. In that case the left hand button should sort it. If you plug it in and it starts charging straight away then pressing it once should revert it to the schedule. After that it should charge as per the schedule every time in that saved location without having to press the button again. if you do charge from empty then you’ll need a 6 hour schedule. I agree the manual isn’t very clear and I wasn’t sure whether it was ok to press that button with the charge lead plugged in and live, but it is. If you plug it in anywhere else then you’ll need to save the new location otherwise just charge it normally. It does work really well once you’ve got it sussed.

 

Hi Chiefy,

Yes that seems to work now, played with it and if you have set charging times that button switches to charge immediately. Conversely, as you have suggested if it is set to immediate charging, pressing the button reverts to preferred settings, that have been programmed in. I wouldn't normally charge it if the car was at 80% but I was just trying things out.
I will experiment with it when battery is at 0% I was rather hoping it would charge for 5 hours and then just stop at whatever the charge was at that time after 5 hours, but as you say it is more complicated than that.
Thanks for your help.

 

I know some folk use timer switches but there really is no need. Once you suss the scheduling it works well and mine has faultlessly. I also thought it would stop at the “5 hour” mark. If I’m charging from 0% with my scheduling set at 12 midnight to 6 am, it takes about 5hrs 20mins for a full charge so 20 mins of more expensive electricity which isn’t significant. An alternative is to set the maximum charge to say 90% (or thereabouts) to stay within the 5 hours off peak. The only issue I have is that when I use scheduled charging, the charging history record in the App hardly ever works. If I charge using normal anytime plug in, that records correctly every time. I haven’t worked that one out yet. It’s not critical but it would be nice to have that working properly in the Ford Pass App. I’ve sent feedback but it never gets answered.

 

@trevoraclay why not introduce yourself in the new members section and pop your Kuga details into your signature as requested 👍

 

Yes if my battery is completely flat I just set the car to charge to 90%. That solved the problem. The software is very poorly designed though (very much like the app and everything Ford). The common sense way would be to set it between 12am and 5am and then for charging to stop at 5am. Simples 😁😁😁