This was a bad week for charging and finding the time to charge the 2025 Ford Mustang Mach-E Sport. This sadly resulted in my continued belief that electric vehicles are not as accessible as they are marketed to be and the city has a long way to go in that endeavour. And this is despite the fact that the BC Hydro has installed a handful of new extra fast chargers in neighbourhood hubs.
Between queues at the pumps and my local ones not working, I was felt scrambling for battery life. The regular charger I use daily when I am at my gym isn’t working. They have 4 pumps here and each one is showing a connectivity issue. I have lodge 4 complaints over 2.5 weeks and still no resolution. You would think the fix would be easy and prioritized. However the responses I am getting is that it has been escalated and there is nothing more they can do. What are the residents of the building with EVs doing?
For me, I felt the constant fear of the ticking time clock of a steadily diminishing charge each time I drove. Thankfully I was able to walk away with four days with the Mach-E and still have the charge. It isn’t the vehicle’s fault, but the above is something to consider when you want to purchase a fully electric vehicle, and have to depend on others for a charge. My building doesn’t have any charging stations.
As for the Ford Mustang and the drive itself, I appreciated how calming the drive was with moon roof top, a soft serene melody playing when reversing, and equally soft “tocks” to signal turn signals. Although too quiet when there was no beeps to signify that the car has been locked or opened, and little to indicate spacing around the car was being impeded on.
Similarly it wasn’t that intuitive, where the side mirrors don’t adjust while you were reverse parking, so you have to rely heavily on video cameras. These do come with two different angles however, this is also accompanied by a fairly grainy view.
I liked how the individual backseat passenger lights are tucked away under the hand grip bar, located on the roof. This was both a useful and stylish details.
And I also got well acquainted with the auto pilot feature, which they call “Blue Cruise”. This was available for highway driving and ideal for straight distances. With it engaged there was no need to keep your foot on pedal or hands on wheel. The Mach-E steers itself and keeps within the speed limit, but you do you have the ability to add gas. And as the Sport it was no slouch, things quickly accelerated, and held so smooth that you wouldn’t realize how fast you are going, until you looked down at the dash.
I was especially impressed by the car’s ability to safely change lanes, depending on the directions from your phone’s GPS, after syncing it up. Although, I was a little too scared of this and ended up cancelling the command and doing it myself. Despite this, the vehicle still remained in Blue Cruise mode, and would resume control without me having to set it as such back and forth.
