Buying
What should I be paying?
Things begin at £42,075, for Select trim and the smaller 52kWh battery. But that gets you only 242 miles WLTP, and probably quite a bit less than 200 on open roads. People will be spooked by that.
The Extended Range 77kWh version gives a much more comforting 389 miles WLTP, for six grand extra.
Meanwhile the step up in trim from Select to Premium is £4k, and you can have either trim on either of those drivetrains. It adds matrix headlamps, B&O stereo, 20-inch wheels, ambient lighting, a pano roof, fairly plausible fake leather seat trim, and power tailgate. Those bigger wheels cost about 10 miles of range.
Power-adjusted driver's seat is standard on both, but missing from both is a heat pump, at £1,050. Other manufacturers have found that leaving off the heat pump hits EV residuals. The other main option pack is HUD and more advanced assists for motorway and parking.
The twin-motor version is another £4k, so £56,175. It has a slightly better battery chemistry for 79kWh. Still, range inevitably drops because of the second motor, settling on 346 miles WLTP. We'd stick with RWD Extended Range Select and save £8,100, some of which would buy that heat pump.
The Capri actually gets slightly better motorway range and efficiency than the Explorer because of lower drag. Ford is unusual among EV makers in quoting the WLTP Extra-High-speed test figure that more or less simulates steady, 70mph driving. The Explorer Select ER RWD gets 292 miles in that test, the comparable Capri 299 miles.
Anything else I should know?
At launch Ford was offering zero per cent interest over three years on a PCP, meaning £527 a month with an £8,300 deposit. Three years leasing deals with similar initial payment can be had under £400 a month.
An 11kW on-board charger means if you have three-phase it's only seven hours flat-to-full for the 77kWh, or 10 and a half on the more common single-phase 7.4kW point.
On DC, the 77kWh pack peaks at 135kW, and the 79kWh pack peaks at 185kW, so both are under half an hour 10-80 per cent. The battery gets itself to the right temperature for fast-charging if the charger is in the navigation route, or you can hit a button to do it manually.
Some charge network subs are included for the first year. Five years' servicing is free, except for consumables. Warranty is three years/60k miles, but you can extend that to five/100k if you pay.
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