s7davis
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- Scott
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- 2019 Alfa Romeo
1. As far as I am aware of no need to preheat car. However, it is nice that with these electric cars you can mess with the climate control settings via phone or computer to set it to the temp you would like and the car will activate the heater/AC to desired temp for when you get into the car but give a few minutes for it to do that. For example I think you can set departure times in settings and then set the temp you would like the cabin to be at for when you get in car then you just leave.I have a few dumb questions that I haven't seen elsewhere (mostly because other threads are for intelligent questions). I swear in real life I'm an intelligent adult, but need to hear others confirm what I'm thinking for me to gain the confidence:
1. Do EV's need to "warm up" like an ICE? I'm in Chicago, so it's frequently 20-30 degrees F in the winter, but maybe 40 degrees in my garage. If I'm plugged in for the night, can I have the car preset to begin warming up at a certain time so it's ready, even though I'm still plugged in charging? My guess is the car can be on but, only being an ICE owner, you obviously shouldn't start your car while fueling.
2. Similarly, if you're out shopping (think, gone for an hour or two), should you plan to have the car begin warming back up so you don't have to sit in the parking lot for a few minutes?
3. I told my wife we can start the EV even while our garage doors are closed because there are no emissions. She said it isn't worth the risk of dying. Is there a good way of explaining this concept to her? Maybe a YouTube link or some other method? It sounds so dumb, but when you've been trained to do something your whole life, it's difficult to change. However i don't want to have to run to the garage if my car is preset to warm up at a certain time.
4. I'm getting a dedicated line from my circuit breaker and my electrician has told me I need to decide where in the garage i want this to be. Does anyone have suggestions for where I should put this? I back into my garage and I think I'll park on the left of a two car port, since I believe the plug is on the front left of the car. Just put it on the wall right there? Should I put it high up so people can walk under it or low so it's easy to step over? Should I put it on the 10 foot feeling and just have it dangle down?
5. Is there any logic to NOT plugging your car in every time you are home? I'm thinking of articles about phone batteries where you are better off letting a phone run to low vs topping off 1-2% after a short trip.
Thanks to anybody who invests time in answering my questions and feel free to post your own questions. Just make sure they are dumb! No intelligent questions please.
2. Same as answer 1 but you can tell the car at anytime to start warming up the cabin on cold days or cooling it off on hot days a few minutes before you start heading back to the car. With Electric cars the HVAC is continuously on and off to keep the batteries at the proper temps.
3. No Emissions and not Gas Engine so it is perfectly safe to have the HVAC run to heat or cool car while it is sitting in the garage.
4. for this one is all up to you. But the cost all depends on where your circuit breaker panel is located and the distance the wires have to go to the outlet. Also depends on how long a charging cable you plan on using as well. If you back into a garage my bet would be to put close to doors. But also depends on if you sticking with what ford gives you or buying a 3rd party charger. Some of the 3rd party chargers have extremely long cables. But if fuse panel is in your garage measure how far it is from where you would like to put it and just get an idea. The charge port on the Mustang Mach E is on driver side front Fender.
5. Their are a lot of articles about this however, since ford is only using like 80% of the batteries actual capacity not going to matter too much. However, if you do a full 80 or 90% charge tonight and do not travel a lot you can probably got about 3 or 4 days on that 1 charge. However, this saying is from Tesla forums so dont bite me. I happy Tesla is a plugged in Tesla. I think the same for any electric car as you can set the charging parameters to only charge to 80% or lower if you like and to start charging when it hits 20% so technically you can plug it in and set the parameters how you like but once you do it will not charge until it is the correct time of day or the percentage is at the min allowed.
Just a side not most people getting EVs now dont care cause it is such a small amount but if it matters the EVs will add about 50 -100 bucks a month on electricity I am assuming.
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