Ford Mustang Mach-E Recalled Because Battery Can’t Handle Owners Flooring It

Car manufacturers love the SUV/crossover format for EVs because they find it easier to fit the batteries in with the higher clearance.

There's a reason why they're all going for it, despite middling enthusiasm from buyers.

Utterly irrelevant blathering. It weighs roughly the same as any EV you want to name, and is more than TWO THOUSAND POUNDS LIGHTER than the EV Lightning.

But you know... don't let facts get in the way of you car guy squealing about how the Mustang name is a precious thing and has never been used in any controversial manner ever.

runs away laughing in Fox body

The newer mustangs are not muscle cars. They are suvs pretending to be muscle cars

Far from any overlap. Over 70% of buyers are first time Ford customers.

"Well you see, making those conductors undersized saved us $1 per unit, which allowed us to get the lower bid, and increase shareholder value at the time. Now, of course, is a different financial quarter and what we did before doesn't matter."

The battery is fine, problem is the isolation contactors in the HV electricity distribution junction box. Contactors overheat, most likely melting their electromagnet windings. No more electromagnet pulling the contactor closed, springs push it open, isolating the battery as designed for a fail safe condition, no more power. Though the fail conditions are supposed to be "control system is not happy, cuts pilot voltage to contactors". Instead of the contactor itself being the failing part.

But hey still, atleast it's not welding the contactor closed, that would be way worse.

"Stick shift is better because when you push all three pedals to the floor, the car sounds real fast!"

- Mustang Drivers, probably

Why would they? It's not a Mustang. It's a hatchback EV with extra ground clearance to pretend it's an SUV.

Over 70% of buyers are first time Ford customers. There isn't much of any overlap in buyers between an actual Mustang and the Mach E.

I was just driving around my city to make some extra cash on uber, and there is too many mach e owners here who spin the tires from stop and around corners, accelerate to 90s on the bridges even the ones that go up vertically and curves, which takes a lot of power and tire grip to do. These men and women are worse than bmw, porsche or sports car owners.

Buying a new model year of a new car has always been a massive risk. The risk of recall maintenance is pretty high.

FYI, when driving the Ioniq 5 in one-pedal mode, the brake lights don't come on until the car is almost at a complete stop.

Hyundai slaps ford these days. The ionic is a better car in every area.

Aw, I was looking into the Ioniq 5 and decided to just wait and spend my extra cash on a different green thing (Hvac). It looks so... Interesting, was it worth the price tag?

I was feeling like I was getting strong armed into Tesla because of fed tax credit, too; hoping the choices open up a bit more...

I was looking at the Ioniq 5 but ultimately went for the ID.4

Any big issues aside from the whole 12v battery dying thing?

To be fair, the people buying these crossovers are not the same people buying ICE Mustangs.

To give Mustang drivers some credit, at least they're not Charger drivers.

Yeah. The fix is simply to switch the contactors to beefier ones, which presumably they did for 2022 model already. Hence new model years aren't affected.

Well switching out the junction box, since not like they are going to have repair mechanics muck in the junction box. Just ship the never model junction box with beefier contactors inside and switch out the whole box.