As @ace wrote:
I don’t know if all cars will implement it this way, but it seems reasonable to me.
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Dang. So I’ve just discovered my working memory range has dwindled to five days. 
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When was this? I drove 17 several times in the 80s, 90s, &00s between Staten Island and Binghamton, never had a problem speed wise.
All states have a basic default speed limit unless otherwise signed. IIRC, in California it was 55, thus there were “Begin xx Speed” and “End xx Speed” signs for lower speeds. So check your state’s law.
I drove that way in the 80’s and 90’s. But the reputation of those two towns has been well-known since the 40’s.
Maybe they weren’t picking on you because you had New York license plates on your car. With my NJ plates, I was frequently made to feel very unwelcome by the local traffic cops.
My 2003 Toyota Prius doesn’t have a speed limiter as such, but it does have a dashboard display of the speed limit, which turns red when you exceed it (you can set a margin of 1, 3, or 5 mph) to avoid triggering it for minor violations. Optionally, it will also sound a buzzer when you exceed the limit.
It avoids having to update the sign every time the road’s normal speed limit is changed.
In Seattle they’ve done that quite often.
It’s not that. This is within town.
The expectation is certainly not that drivers speed up to 55 mph, but rather that they slow down to 30 or 25 mph, but only people who are at home here know which one. Had they just put up a simple speed limit sign, everybody would know what they’re supposed to do.
True as we were usually in my mother-in-law’s car. However in 2002 I attended a Miata event in Canada then picked my wife up in Binghamton and drove to S.I. with California plates. Though maybe I-87 had bypassed those towns by then.
Yeah, the Interstate highways generally don’t have shenanigans like that. There would be no need to get off the highway unless you wanted to stop in one of those towns for gas and a meal.
Part of the boundary of my town is a busy secondary street, and the town line is in the center. Since the local speed limits differ (25 and 30 mph unless otherwise marked) you can be in violation or not depending on which way you’re going . . . probably not uncommon, come to think of it.
My Civic hybrid reads speed limit signs accurately, more or less, when they’re present, unless they’re yellow (some are around here) and posts the results discreetly on the dashboard. As do the mapping apps I use–'way over there on the right edge of the 9" screen–oops, watch that car pulling out! Sometimes they disagree.
No limiter, though.
I just came back from a 3 hr trip (each way) into central Virginia much of which was on 2 and 4 lane state roads. The night before I scoped out chargers along the way. I pinned and added each to a “Guide” in Apple Maps, and when the that guide is selected it displays the pinned charging stations. My intent was that when we were ready to eat (we packed lunch), we can visually pick the next charger location to stop at. But no. The app hides the guides when in navigation mode! So I ended up adding the chargers as destinations in my trip. Next time I’ll try Google Maps or a paid sub to ABRP
I was surprised to discover that Apple Maps can communicate with my car (2025 Mach E) to read the current charge and to estimate the charge at each destination. So the area of the maps screen that displays miles to go and arrival time, also displays charge at arrival.
I also experienced Tesla chargers with super short cords. I had to pull up with my front bumper nearly touching the charger to have enough cable to reach the port on the front left fender.
I agree with others here that EV are amazing. Businesses need to keep on building charging stations and very soon you wont have to do all this pre-trip planning.
Huh! I had no idea—I’ll have to check this out and see if it’s true of the IONIQ 5 as well.
Another point of information on this issue:
2024 Mach E. I have an iPhone 13 Mini, my wife has an iPhone 16 Pro, both on the same iOS. When we’re using the 16 Pro for Apple CarPlay the charge on arrival is shown in Apple Maps, but with the 13 Mini it isn’t. Could it be related to the bluetooth chip in the phone? Also, I suspect the information is coming from the Ford app on the phone, which itself connects to the car, rather than the phone somehow interfacing with that information in the car’s software.
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I think that’s correct. I understand there is no standard/protocol for cars to exchange operational information, such as state-of-charge or estimated range, with Maps or other navigation apps. I expect this must be done through the car manufacturer’s app on the phone.
Our BYD EV doesn’t seem to have that feature but I guess it could be introduced in a future update.
Of course I can always do the mental arithmetic myself and compare Maps “distance to destination” with the car’s estimated range. However, as mentioned early in this discussion, EV estimated range on flat, fast roads (where regen braking is rarely used) can be highly optimistic. My rule of thumb for stress-free trips is to reduce estimated range by 30%.
Parking in the “wrong” space is Tesla’s official recommendation for how to deal with this situation.
There is one company that sells an extension cord for this situation, and another company (A2Z) announced one over a year ago but has yet to ship. But these are quite expensive (hundreds of dollars) and also take up quite a bit of space.
My EV has the port on the opposite side, and I’ve pretty much avoided all the V3 dispenser stations with the shorter cables. I would have to park in the “wrong” spot, and if the station is more than half full, I might have to wait quite a long time for a “wrong” spot to become available. Plus even though parking in the wrong spot is Tesla policy, that doesn’t mean other Tesla drivers will appreciate me doing that. So I just skip any station that is listed as 250kw in the Tesla app, In my experience, there are plenty of non-Tesla chargers available when I go on road trips.
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I think you experienced the famous ICCU failure. If you search the internet for ICCU you’ll find hundreds of hits, but this is a pretty good summary web page. A year or two ago it was taking Hyundai weeks or even months to repair ICCU failures, at least now they are usually much faster, as you experienced. But I very much hope to never have your experience (I own a Genesis GV60, which has the same failure prone ICCU part.)
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Unfortunately, the ability for Apple Maps to get the current charge is a special feature of the Mach E. Neither the Ionic 5 nor any other EV has this feature, only the Mach-E. It’s not a new feature either, the Mach E has had it for several years.
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My 2022 Mach-E has this capability. I assumed it was getting the data from the Ford app.
My 2022 Mach-E has this capability. I assumed it was getting the data from the Ford app.
I don’t think the Ford app is involved. If you watch this video, you can see that Apple Maps connects directly to the car, but you must be in the car with CarPlay already connected to do this. It seems like Apple and Ford have done some special engineering to enable this, so far this doesn’t work with any other kind of EV even though Apple Maps has had this capability for several years.
