Your not wrong and hopefully ford will have figured out their hybrid issues for those of you that get a MY23 as current MY22 owners for ford hybrids (not just mavericks) are being told to park their vehicles away from the house incase it catches fire and that isn't counting the other issues the hybrid maverick had had so far.
It's smaller than fully electric or plug-in hybrid batteries, but it's a pretty serious battery. Under the rear right passenger foot area.
Thanks. Yeah, I just found a thread that talks about it. The 12V under the passenger seat looks like a standard car battery because it is just the standard car battery. I guess I can see that hybrid one being a bit pricey (still not $2-3k pricey) but more than a typical battery.It's smaller than fully electric or plug-in hybrid batteries, but it's a pretty serious battery. Under the rear right passenger foot area.
I was 2 years into driving my 2012 Hybrid Escape. 10 years and still running just fine. about 150,000 miles.
It's not just a bunch of battery cells in there. The controller, contactor, fuses, and other components are packaged in the unit as well.
Catalytic converters getting glowing red hot when the remote start is used, and issues with regen braking are the ones I can think of off the top of my head and I have seen reports of DOA hybrid batteries but I don't know how true the last one is.
There are some that both types shared like the factory SIBL on the original runs having damaged the fuel tank, the rear seat belts, trailer brake controller being faulty. I didn't have any of those problems on my ecoboost but I did have a bad seal on my wiring harness that cause water infiltration and caused some corrosion and had to replace it but that was my only "defect" as of right now. It is possible that the dealer may have fixed my Trailer brake while it was in for the routine maintenance though I don't know though I do know they updated the computer on one of my visits.
Not everybody drive 15k miles a year.
I think you're getting confused by news reports that were combining the Escape/Maverick/Corsair hybrid shutter/shield recall alongside the Navigator/Expedition recall which does have a fire risk, park outside order.
Did a search for red hot catalytic converter and came up with nothing except a click bait Youtube video. Maybe I'm searching on the wrong terms.
You are correct I thought they had issued the park outside for the mavericks as well but ford says they aren't a risk of fire while parked.
On Maverick hybrids produced up until March there's the potential for the fuel management to cycle on and off when the HV battery reaches capacity from long remote start durations. This causes elevated catalytic converter temperatures/sulfur odor. There's a TSB to reprogram for vehicles experiencing this.
