Hybrid battery idle discharge?

[TheGriffin1313]

This has led me to consider cancelling my Hybrid order. I am a snowbird who keeps a car in Florida and a car in Ohio and flies back and forth. The car on both ends will sit unused for 6 months of the year. There is no practical way to do periodic starts. Leave the gas engine on a trickle charge and have had no problem, I need more input on this battery issue before I go through with my hybrid purchase.

Hybrid or no Hybrid storing a car for 6 months without a battery tender is not a good idea

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[Franks and Beans]

As a CMax owner, how is the turning radius of Mav compare to your CMax. Our 2013 CMax energi had a horrible turning radius, one of the reasons we let that car go… I realize Mav is longer wheelbase, but any impressions?

Agreed. The turning circle in my CMax was worse than any car or truck I've owned. Used to call it the "bus". Gauging by the little street I live on, when parked on the street the CMax would need a 3 point turn to make a u-turn without hitting the opposite curb. In the Maverick, I can do it with no problem.

 

[Steelie Van]

Thanks for this info! ‘The bus’ love it.

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