I wondered the same thing after reading this in the owner’s manual:
Why else would there be a power cord that had to be unplugged. I checked my XL and sure enough, it had the cord. However I could not get the power lock to affect the tailgate. I removed the panel on the tailgate and there...
I was under the impression that the two cigarette lighter power ports in my XL stayed on when the car was turned off. But with the car off I plugged a phone charger in and there was no power. Later I plugged in a Sirius docking station with bluetooth and this time the power stayed on long after...
I just received my Maverick Hybrid (ordered in July). I ordered Ford Copilot and had been wondering how they were going to do blind spot monitoring on the XL’s manual mirrors. Great news! They upgraded the mirrors to electric mirrors. Didn’t know I would be getting them. A pleasant surprise.