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by N1H1L
1177 days ago
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Disclosure: I own a Mach-E. Except for minor niggles, touch wood, it's been great. The Mach-E and F150 architectures were stop-gaps, and pretty good at that. * One, it still is not completely clean sheet, and thus has a lot of unnecessary complexity in wiring and body parts - which pushes up unit costs. * Two, it's a 400V architecture that really doesn't like a lot of electrons flowing through it all at once. As a result it throttles charging speeds and acceleration pretty brutally. * Yet, weirdly, Ford's electronics are quite a bit better than VW. No one is at Tesla levels, but VW's electronics is just bad. Quite a few YouTube reviewers have detailed this. |
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In-car infotainment and things like that? Yeah, VW has an interesting reputation from their "experiments" and failures across the ID line. That was definitely one of the reasons that early previews think that Ford's Explorer may potentially out-sell VW's own MEB efforts if for no other reason than because the in-car non-battery electronics are Ford's sleeker, more battle-tested things. (VW is certainly looking to improve things in the near term, they've been in the process of moving out of "experiments" and towards Android Automotive.)