The red dot is the parking sensor I believe. Also the large heated area is the rear radar (if it's cabin air exhaust heating it, that's just clever design, not coincidence).
Rear camera is also heated.
I live where it snows a lot, and when it sticks to the rear the heated areas are as visible...
Mine has been plugged in more or less daily since May 2021 and battery health was 99% last checked a couple of months ago. I have it at 90%.
Concencus seems to be that DCFC is what reduces the batteri longevity.
I do want to add that my PTC was not providing stable cabin temps akin to OP description, however in my case the PTC was failing and was in the end replaced by the dealer even though Ford refused.
There is not DTC thrown, but there is a PID that initially indicated degraded PTC with about 2,5kW...
Heating works just as it used to for me.
Camera button works at lower speeds, and gives a warning otherwise.
Sounds like you might have an anomaly your dealership needs to look at.
Du har i allefall full reklamasjonsrett på deler som byttes. Og vil tro man skal forvente at den varer vesentlig lengre enn 5 år, så da får du 5 år reklamasjon.
Aner ikke hva garantien sier 🙂
Woosh.
Yes it is, and in EU the other models are suddenly at version 6, while 2021 is left behind (at least temporarily, Ford says it's only slight delay).
So can confirm that the battery will be heated on the 4.2.1.2 version.
Between 30 and 20 km ahead of the charging destination the PID for the battery heater came on and temperature rose from 6 to about 12 pretty quickly. About 3kW reported.
The car still charged at only 55kWh, despite PID for...
It's serverside. Restart app or pull down to refresh and it appeared.
I did get manual updates to enable frunk release with dealer 6 months ago, though.
The car can report capabilities, but seems like Ford is manually updating acknowledged capabilities in bulks.
I live in Tromsø, a 10 hour drive past the arctic circle.
Everybody immediately leaves work if it passes 20°C as it usually only happens a few days every summer - and I've experienced summers that never reached it even... Preconditioning is a requirement for EVs around here to be honest.
So I did a longer trip and tried to verify if the battery is heated if you have a charger as nagivation target.
To be honest, I think my data is inconclusive, however it suggests that the heating may be present. I didn't find a suitable PID to monitor the PTC on, so I just monitored the battery...