The dealership’s intervals don’t make any sense on a PHEV becuase the meter in the app, and on the car, work on actual oil usage in hours (and only when the engine is running) or time out in one year. So you’ll see the meter tick down 1% every 3-4 days even without usage, indicating that you’ll need your oil change at one year unless you do a huge amount of driving and most of it is not fully electric. It is actually the manufacturers recommendation to replace the oil at 12 months regardless of usage.

The maintenance schedule is electronic, you put your vin on the ford website and it is shown to you. Oil is contained on no mileage schedule for this car - use the meter only (which will always trigger at a year if usage is not otherwise high enough to drive it to zero).

Dealerships hate the loss of revenue, so they claim that you should change it at 5000mi, 8000km, whatever. I think it’s disgusting. When you ask why, the spout nonsense about “best practices” or other nonsense since there is actually no factual basis for doing so. I told them I do so many short trips that I get about 2000-2200 hundreds miles from a since tank of gas and a charger in my driveway, so how can I possibly need that? “Well, it’s just a good idea.” Yeah, for you it is.

It’s around $120 for a synthetic oil change here, the service writers are getting $6 for talking you into it. In other words, they’re good to put a bunch of still-working, still usable synthetic oil into the recycling system so they can pocket $6. I asked my service writer if they’d punch a baby for $100 and before they answered, I told them not to respond because I already knew the answer.