I just bought a BEV i3 to replace my totaled Ford Focus Electric. Ford had an app/value charging systems that, while buggy, seems to have way more features than I can find for my I3. I am hoping I am missing something as I would hate to think I had features for the last 2.5 years form Ford that BMW has not implemented. The car is very new to me so maybe I just haven't found the feature yet.
For instance:
1. value charging can be set with multiple tiers and different for different days. All I can find for the i3 is a single time setting, i.e. I can set 12-7am as my value charge window but I have additional windows on the weekends. They also tied to my electric provider so it would automatically pick up the current rates. I believe this is coming with iCharging but why not available now?
2. For my FFE, when you turned off, the car would have a choice of charge now or value charge on the main screen. I usually value charge but there are times that I need to charge now to go out again and would like to do so without having to go through a bunch of screens. Is there an easy way to do this in the i3.
3. Ford has notifications set up so that you would know if there are charging problems or other notifications. They could be sent via email or test. The most useful was a) if I forgot to plug in when I got home, it would notify me about 5 minutes after turning off the car and b) if there were any charging faults. This last one came in handy as I actually had a lemon car with a lot of charging issues.
Am I missing something?
For instance:
1. value charging can be set with multiple tiers and different for different days. All I can find for the i3 is a single time setting, i.e. I can set 12-7am as my value charge window but I have additional windows on the weekends. They also tied to my electric provider so it would automatically pick up the current rates. I believe this is coming with iCharging but why not available now?
2. For my FFE, when you turned off, the car would have a choice of charge now or value charge on the main screen. I usually value charge but there are times that I need to charge now to go out again and would like to do so without having to go through a bunch of screens. Is there an easy way to do this in the i3.
3. Ford has notifications set up so that you would know if there are charging problems or other notifications. They could be sent via email or test. The most useful was a) if I forgot to plug in when I got home, it would notify me about 5 minutes after turning off the car and b) if there were any charging faults. This last one came in handy as I actually had a lemon car with a lot of charging issues.
Am I missing something?
