Departure Times & Preconditioning

[RickMachE]

Do you know when it cuts the power from precondition? If I set it to depart at 6am, will it stop drawing power right at 6am or go past that for a bit? I have an electric plan that is free nights until 6am so I was going to precondition until 6am even though I dont leave until 6:15-6:30.

The preconditioning of the battery is done well before 6AM. Then it preconditions the cabin. That is designed to be "ready" at 6AM. I don't recall if the vehicle shuts off exactly at 6AM or not though.

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[B177y]

Do you know when it cuts the power from precondition? If I set it to depart at 6am, will it stop drawing power right at 6am or go past that for a bit? I have an electric plan that is free nights until 6am so I was going to precondition until 6am even though I dont leave until 6:15-6:30.

I used pre-conditioning for my Lightning a few times this winter with a 0600 departure time, but I would actually get into the truck later sometimes. I suspect the MME would be similar.

To answer your question, it seems to stay pre-conditioning the cabin for 15 minutes after your set time. That's just going off memory, so YMMV. I do remember going out at 0620 and the truck was off. At 0610 the heat pump is still chugging away. I never actually witnessed the 0615 shut off, but based on my two data points, it seems reasonable.

 

[Mach-Lee]

Do you know when it cuts the power from precondition? If I set it to depart at 6am, will it stop drawing power right at 6am or go past that for a bit? I have an electric plan that is free nights until 6am so I was going to precondition until 6am even though I dont leave until 6:15-6:30.

It will run for up to 15 minutes past the departure time, so until 6:15. However the bulk of the electricity used would be before 6:00. I would not worry about the small amount of electricity used between 6:00-6:15 to maintain cabin temp. It would be less than 0.5 kWh.

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