How far can you drive a Ford E-Transit on ONE charge? - New World Record!!!!

We set out to achieve something that's never been done before. We wanted to see how many miles you could drive our 2022 Ford E-Transit on a single charge. After owning our van for a few months, we've learned the most efficient ways to drive the EV. We carefully charted our course, and we set out to achieve the impossible.

There are too many blanket statements that say these All-Electric vehicles can't drive far on a single charge. There are too many who claim you'll be lucky to get the rated range from the van. The rated range for our van is 106 miles from ‪@ford‬ and this video proves this to be a very conservative number. In fact, we routinely see between 140-170 miles of range based on our daily driving habits. Notice the blue range number in the beginning of the video shows 170 miles. This was following a day of normal usage.

We set a few rules for this drive:
1. You must start and stop from the same charger location.
2. You must make it back to the charger under the van's own power. No towing.
3. You must remain on public roads. No closed course driving.
4. You must do this in a single drive cycle. No turning the van off. No stopping. No charging. This also allows for you to be able to prove your drive with the FordPass app.

We set these rules to maintain some form of reality with this drive. Yes, you could easily coast down a mountain for a hundred miles and cheat the system. Yes, you could drive in the same direction all day with a significant tail wind and allow mother nature to give you a push. Those would both result in more mileage but that style of driving isn't reality. You would eventually have to drive back up that mountain or drive back into that heavy wind.

*Note* - We also did this with 2,100 pounds of cargo in the van. This wasn't an empty van. We wanted to show that this range could be achieved in the exact same setup we drive every day for our plumbing company. We didn't establish a rule for what the vehicle must weigh because everyone's van is set up differently. Ours is pretty heavy and we drive with this much weight day-in and day-out. If you decide to challenge our record with less weight, then your mother will be disappointed in you. So don't break her heart.

Was our speed realistic? Absolutely.
Was our speed legal? Absolutely.
We drove for 16+ hours and encountered no fewer than 20 different police vehicles throughout the day. None of them had any issue with our speed. We even captured the last police officer on film as he cruised on by.

We hope you can learn that these vans are way more capable that you might think. So feel free to put aside some of what you've been told about the Ford E-Transit and go try one for yourself. You'll soon like just like we did that they are the perfect vehicle for in-town delivery and service work.

Ironically, we experienced a glitch in the FordPass app for our drive. The app shows that we only made one trip on October 6th, 2022. It shows that trip to have consumed 67.8 kWh of energy from the 68 kWh battery. However, there is a major communication error with the mileage and the app only shows we drove 49 miles. At this point, we can only assume that it has something to do with us driving laps on the same road all day. We think the mileage comes from a GPS location and since we were in the same area all day, the GPS didn't pick up enough of a change in distance to record the actual mileage. We called the FordPass customer service the following day and opened a trouble ticket to resolve the issue. They recognize a communication error and have escalated the issue to the engineering team. We are hopeful that we'll be able to validate this drive with FordPass verification soon but it's out of our hands at this point. When this correction occurs, we'll post a new video showing the historic drive on our app.

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