Opening the vehicle hood normally involves two steps. First is a lever inside the cabin located on the driver side below the steering wheel and towards the door. Pullin the handle should raise the hood slightly giving you access to another lever either located below the hood near the middle of the hood just above the grill or through the front grill in some cases. That's about it.
The hood should still open when the battery is dead
Open the door with your key. Now pull the hood latch to open the hood.
Open the door with your key and pull the hood release.
Open the hood, disconnect the negative battery cable FIRST, then the positive cable, then remove the battery hold down clamp, then lift the battery out. Install in reverse order.
do you not have a key to open the door? if you do, use it to open the trunk and climb through to open the door manually
use the key to unlock door
you open the hood and put it in
Open your hood look down to left see fuse box above battery, voila its in there.
Pull the inside hood release and then go to the front of the Explorer and press down on the hood slightly while operating the auxillary hood release located just under the front edge of the hood at the center
Open the hood and look see.
The hood is in no way controlled or opened by the battery. A hood does not have an electric release. It's a cable operated system.
The battery has nothing whatsoever to do with opening the hood. Open the door, pull the hood release located inside the vehicle. Shut the door, walk around to the front of the vehicle, reach under the edge of the hood, and pull the safety release. Raise the hood.