Auto brake hold is activated by one of the three buttons (far right IIRC) just in front of the center storage bin. I leave it on all the time and absolutely love it.
Don't think the hybrid has an auto start-stop button
With a conventional automatic I always put it in neutral when stopped, I hate the thought of the torque converter just churning oil and getting hot! I'm annoyed to find that the hybrid has 'creep' and I have to put it in 'N' to disengage.Ford has supplied creep mode on hybrids to lower complaints from automatic fanatics now driving hybrids (maybe ev"s?). I believe it can be turned off but do not remember for sure. It is nice. I use mine when I want to enter my garage as I have a 1" bump and creep in Low gear will furnish enough torque to do it but not in any other drive mode. I also back into garage in my second maverick and like it because with the backup camera and rear side mirror in my XLT lux will let me get within 2" of my freezer. The rear door handle is the guide point in mirror if it has any clearance the fender well will clear!
But the eCVT doesn't have a torque converter.
I know - that's why it's annoying that it still 'creeps'.
Turn on the brake hold (the button with the hand in a circle) which when stopped with foot on brake pedal sets the brake to prevent rolling and turns off the minute creep current going to the electric drive motor allowing driver to take his foot off the brake pedal. Then when go pedal is pushed the brake is released and the current to drive motor is turned on either from ice or battery.
A couple of things I don't like about the Brake Hold: The lurch when it releases and the go pedal is pressed and Brake Hold keeps the brake lights burning and melting the lenses in the Arizona heat. The Park Brake doesn't put on the brake lights but still jerks when you move off unless you manually release it - which is what I do.
Maybe you need software updated??? I have no lurching with brake hold on. Seems like dealer did tsb grabby brake software update when of oil changes.
