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Electrify America released a Newsflash a couple days ago on 2/7/2022 about Cold Weather Charging.
There isn't necessarily anything new here to most forum members, but certainly can confirm in cold temperatures, charging is slower (about 36%) and range is reduced (20%-39%), in all battery electric vehicles (BEVs). The article references some interesting studies:
SEPARATE NOTE & QUESTION:
I live in Iowa and want to keep my Mach-E GT PE in pristine condition and low mileage. No driving in rain, snow, or salt covered roads. I have had it in storage under a custom Mach-E cover for about 9 weeks now. I entered the vehicle about a week ago, turned it on to check the system and state of charge (SOC). It was still at 50% as I had charged at time of putting it into storage. I left it on for about 5 minutes to see if the SOC change, but it stayed there at 50% for weeks. Interesting.
Pre-conditioning QUESTION
I also own a Mach-E Select which is more of a daily driver. I have it set to precondition to be warm and ready both in morning at 7:20am (in heated garage, kept at 50F) and 2:50pm (outdoor). Most of the time it's unplugged, about once per week plugged in at the morning time to the Ford Connected Charger.
I get an alert on FordPass that it starts the preconditioning exactly 5 minutes before the set time in both the morning time in the heated garage and in the afternoon time in outdoor and much colder environment - has been -5F to 30F. So I gather it doesn't take more than 5 minutes to precondition the batteries and cabin.
Is this a common experience that it starts the preconditioning only 5 minutes before the set time? I would have thought it would take longer.
There isn't necessarily anything new here to most forum members, but certainly can confirm in cold temperatures, charging is slower (about 36%) and range is reduced (20%-39%), in all battery electric vehicles (BEVs). The article references some interesting studies:
- Cold weather testing by the US Department of Energy
- University of Michigan Energy Institute
- Science Direct
- Idaho National Laboratory
- Norwegian Automobile Federation
SEPARATE NOTE & QUESTION:
I live in Iowa and want to keep my Mach-E GT PE in pristine condition and low mileage. No driving in rain, snow, or salt covered roads. I have had it in storage under a custom Mach-E cover for about 9 weeks now. I entered the vehicle about a week ago, turned it on to check the system and state of charge (SOC). It was still at 50% as I had charged at time of putting it into storage. I left it on for about 5 minutes to see if the SOC change, but it stayed there at 50% for weeks. Interesting.
Pre-conditioning QUESTION
I also own a Mach-E Select which is more of a daily driver. I have it set to precondition to be warm and ready both in morning at 7:20am (in heated garage, kept at 50F) and 2:50pm (outdoor). Most of the time it's unplugged, about once per week plugged in at the morning time to the Ford Connected Charger.
I get an alert on FordPass that it starts the preconditioning exactly 5 minutes before the set time in both the morning time in the heated garage and in the afternoon time in outdoor and much colder environment - has been -5F to 30F. So I gather it doesn't take more than 5 minutes to precondition the batteries and cabin.
Is this a common experience that it starts the preconditioning only 5 minutes before the set time? I would have thought it would take longer.
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