[wazokazi]

I finally got mine last week, took over 6 months after placing the order!

It is very well built, unlike any ford I have ever driven. Drove it for about a 100 mile trip in the Columbia gorge last weekend, it was a blast.

That said, even with 250+ mile highway range, my wife had a bit of range anxiety once the battery gauge dropped below 50%. Something that will hopefully go away with time.

[andrewmunsell]

Range anxiety goes away over time, for sure. I used to have an i3 with a hair over 100 miles of range and got used to low percentages even on that small battery, and now don't even blink when my Tesla is <10%.

[rootusrootus]

Range anxiety should recede with experience, provided the estimates from the car are accurate. My wife has become very comfortable with our Bolt, because she trusts that when it says it has 90 miles left, it really does have that (usually it slightly underestimates remaining range, if anything, though it's pretty close).

Can't really get around the bit of anxiety about knowing that there aren't as many recharging options out in the wild as there are gas stations, but it's comforting to know that you'll be fine making it home.

[magicalhippo]

We own an i3, and when doing longer trips the range anxiety isn't so much if we'll find a charging station, but if we'll be able to charge there.

For some reason charging stations seems to have a very high out-of-service frequency, and very often this status is not accurately reported in the various charging location apps.

It also doesn't help that certain apps tell you that there's an available charger when the reality is that the charging station has both CCS and CHAdeMO, someone is using the CHAdeMO so the CCS is useless. If you plug it in you won't be able to charge until the other one stops, and worse you won't be able to disconnect from the charger until then either. Yay!

Though this is usually just an issue on longer trips, and our car isn't exactly built for that anyway with its ~250km summer range.

[mensetmanusman]

Yeah, our mobile phones aren’t helping here. It’s so annoying to see the phone go to 20% and then drop off a cliff per unit time. Cars have to be really good at giving precise and confident range capability, with a safety factor.

[jeffrallen]

They are.

But also you come to understand the connection between real world conditions and "km of expected range consumed per real km", which ranges from -0.8 (regen, long downhill, battery ready to receive charge), 1 (flat, 80 kph, 21 degrees outside), and 2 or even 3 (steep uphill with heater or AC on).

Or maybe you do if you're a HN reader... :)

[NotSammyHagar]

What's charging like these days on the US CCS network? I've made many long-range trips in my Tesla which has about 250 miles range but there's so many superchargers it's pretty easy unless you head up into the mountains.

[rootusrootus]

In my experience it's fine. My Bolt doesn't have high-end DC fast charging speeds, but when we go on our road trips up north we pretty much do exactly the same trip as when we had our Tesla P3D. We stop at a different location, of course, but aside from having to wait 40 minutes instead of 20, it's been a non-issue.

[Rebelgecko]

Did you try out the handsfree driving assistance? I'm really curious to hear about how well that works, but haven't been able to find much in the way of reviews (maybe it isn't live yet?)

[zip1234]

They don't have the hands free stuff out yet (Blue Cruise is what they have named it). The current Mach-E does have a very nice advanced cruised control system though. I have a Mach-E and while you do have to keep your hands on the wheel, it will completely handle steering around curves and following distance from vehicles in front of you. I've only used it on the highway though.

[wazokazi]

It is supposed to roll out this quarter, they gave me a $100 rebate check for not having it available at the time of delivery :)

Edit: Forgot to mention, it is an additional $600 option to get hands free driving feature.