You can also hook up your charger to posts under the hood. Probably a little more convenient. You may want to look into permanently mounting a trickle charger under the hood and running the DC cord out to the front bumper. Noco has the equipment specifically designed for doing that.
I did the same. It was an easy install. (Important to get the H4 size as it fits without any modification) Very happy with the battery and not having anxiety over not starting and having half my accessories not working.
Using your current charger will be fine. You can always put a voltmeter on it but your charger is probably set up for ~12.7v. That's perfectly fine for an AGM.
Per manual the charger negative has to be connected on the body side of the BMS and not the post as it needs to "see" the charging and discharging!
WOW is my battery under the backseat? I really should know this? LOL
It is if you have the Hybrid.
OHHHHHH thanks!
If you have an Ecoboost, your battery is under the hood.
This whole thread is ridiculous. To expect an owner of a Maverick Hybrid to go out and have to buy a charger and plug their vehicle in at night is rediculous. We didn't buy a stupid plug in EV. That is just a bandaid approach to a bleeding artery. Ford has known about this problem since the 2022 model year and is just getting around to supposedly doing something about it? I suspect they were ignoring it, saying publicly we "weren't driving enough. Please drive more", until the shear number of people having this problem (basically every owner of a hybrid Maverick) grew so large and vocal that they had to finally do something about it so sales weren't affected. This is the next "back up camera defect" P.R. disaster for the company. The recall for this will be so huge that the impact to future sales will yet to be seen. Also, someone pointed out that other vehicles like Subaru's have this issue. Who cares? That's not our problem. That is deflection. That is Subaru's problem. This is Ford's problem to solve, and the clock is quickly ticking on this for a solution to be announced by March 30th, as they have publicly promised.
What the notification has told you is your battery has dropped to less than 12 volts to an approximately 25% charge level. Essentially discharged. This is NOT a "feature". It is NOT "saving" the battery. Leaving a vehicle battery, be it a flooded lead acid battery, or AGM style, in such a low state of charge will destroy that battery. One could give Ford some slack if this problem had suddenly appeared in a new model year, but this problem has existed since the Maverick hybrid was first introduced. Instead of spending their time and efforts in redesigning the front end and dash of the Maverick maybe they should have devoted more resources into fixing the problems in the existing models, .i.e. deep sleep and the backup cameras.
Good comments, I share the opinion. But the deep sleep/battery saver hybrid problem has been corrected for 2025 models? Don’t they come with AGM batteries? No idea if there are software or other changes.
