Climate control while charging?

[Thunderanger]

Hey all. The other day I was charging at a new Chargepoint station and had a little trouble getting it going, but eventually did. In the meantime either I or my wife inadvertently turned on the accessories in the car. Anyway, we went inside for an ice cream cone and came back out 20 minutes later to a nicely charged HV battery and a very nice, cool, comfy car. Is there any harm in doing that intentionally or did we just get lucky not to cause damage? Oh also, the last two times I set the car to precondition (plugged into the home charger) it didn't. Any ideas why?

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[RickMachE]

You can cool the car while charging no problem. It will use a small bit of energy, and take a tad longer to charge. You should NOT use the heater while charging (as per Ford's direction), so that it can divert all energy to warming the battery. In the winter, turn off the heat and use the heated seats and heated steering wheel.

The preconditioning setting allows you to specify a cabin temperature of cool, medium, warm, or Off. If you chose off, it would not precondition the cabin. I chose this last week when it was 55 out.

 

[Thunderanger]

Thank you. I got it. Cooling OK while charging with a little slower charge time. Also, I had my pre-conditioning set on cool. Hmmm.

 

[RickMachE]

Thank you. I got it. Cooling OK while charging with a little slower charge time. Also, I had my pre-conditioning set on cool. Hmmm.

People have reported that sometimes a departure time doesn't work for no known reason.

And "slower" is barely noticeable, the A/C doesn't use a lot of juice.

 

[noway]

Just make sure sometimes if walking in and out of the car and pugging in and unplugging sometimes turns the car into "acc but not ON" mode, shows as red battery icon in IPC. In that mode it will not heat or cool. Turn on with brake pedal + start to go into normal ON mode.

Also the car will use the air condition compressor for cooling battery if charging for long time. It has capacity to do both, but it will run the compressor regardless of climate setting if necessary

 

[Thunderanger]

Yep, the pre-conditioning thing has happened to me a few times. Sometimes I think that Fordpass is just super slow or unable to share it with the car. Dunno. And is the "full on" accessory situation OK for this?

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