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OBD support for Ford E-Transit

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I was glad to find the Ford E-Transit in the supported models. Unfortunately, there is no ARP OBD Connection that can be used wit BLE OBD dongle, as it is the case in i.e. the Ford F-150 Lightning. Just the Generic method is listed, but I’m not able to use it.

I can use other Ford car models like F-150 Lightning and the OBD connection is working perfectly with my Dongle over BLE. But I assume the configuration for the car weight and the surface is not the same and therefore the plan differs from reality.

Could you please add the ARP OBD Connection also the three Ford E-Transit 2022+ configs.

What type of vehicle connection is this?
Posted by Daniel ·
Status: Awaiting Clarification10 comments

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  • Katya S. changed status to Awaiting Clarification
    Team•

    Apr 16

    Pinned

    Hi,

    We need the OBD PID commands and how to interpret the returned data. Since this is not easily available for most vehicles there is not possibility for us to provide a time estimate.

    You can check our telemetry API for relevant properties:
    documenter.getpostman.com/view/7396339/SWTK5a8w

    Also, you can check our (partially outdated) OBD repository to see what other cars report:
    https://www.github.com/iternio/ev-obd-pids

    If you find that an existing vehicle profile reads data correctly, please let us know, but please DO NOT keep using the incorrect vehicle model with live data.

    • Katya S.

      Team•

      Apr 16

      Could be that the PIDs we use for an already supported vehicle model could work. Here’s what you can do once you have access to the vehicle and a dongle;

      1. Select the actual model of your car, save it

      2. In vehicle settings, change the model of the saved vehicle to one that you suspect has compatible OBD commands (just any model will not work, it needs to be compatible)

      3. Link the vehicle via OBD (details here; OBD Connection )

      4. Select the correct vehicle model again

      5. After verifying that the data is read correctly (or even partially correctly) notify us that the OBD commands for vehicle model X also works for vehicle model Y.

      • Daniel

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        Apr 16

        Hi Katya

        Thanks for your fast reply.

        Performing exactly your proposed procedure doesn‘t work as after 4., I loose the Connection für live data. But I did the following:

        I tried with the Ford F-150 Lightning on my Fort E-Transit 2022 and live data works. This with step 1 to 3. Unfortunately, the calculation for battery consumption is not very accurate, especially in the mountains. I added a configuration of a large trailer to simmulate additional weight, but ABRP has still to optimistic calculation for climbing hills.

        So, in my opinion you could just use the same live data config for the E-Transit as for F-150 to enable a BLE connection.

        I‘ve read a simmilar experience in an other post.

        Why shouldn‘t I use the F-150 Lightning in the meantime?

        Thx

        • Katya S.

          Team•

          Apr 17

          Thank you for checking. To clarify, you shouldn’t use the incorrect vehicle as we use the data to improve the general model (selected vehicle) so it is possible that data from the wrong vehicle model can impact this negatively.

      • Daniel

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        May 26

        Hi Katya

        Do you have any update how you will proceed to resolve this problem. Without live data, the app is pretty useless.

        Thanks for your update.

  • VR En électrique

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    Apr 16

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    Merged request

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    2 votes

    Ford e-transit obd2

    🚧 THIS IS A TICKET MIGRATED FROM UPVOTY. The original ticket and comments will be available for a limited time over at:
    https://abrp.upvoty.com/b/report-a-bug/ford-e-transit-obd2/
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    Hello,

    I have an E-Transit and a Bluetooth OBD module to capture real-time vehicle information. Unfortunately, I can't use the vehicle profile because only the Generic Token is available, and OBD is no longer accessible. However, if I use the Ford Lightning profile, I can access both the Generic Token and OBD, and it works. Could you please advise me on what to do?

    Thank you.

    • Daniel

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      Apr 14

      I have the same wish. Why is this ticket rejected?

  • Daniel

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    Jun 14

    Hi Katja

    The state of this ticket is „Awaiting Clarification“. Do you need more info which I could deliver? As I mentioned, the F-150 Lightning profile works, but this car is much lighter and therefore using the E-transit in the mountains gives always a too optimistic calculation, which is problematic.

    Thanks for treating this ticket.

    Regards, Daniel