So are there any scenarios where this should be OFF? By leaving it ON I assume the heat will work i.e when you want car to heat, it will heat.
my 2015 mustang has one there, too - and I didn't notice it until someone pointed it out in another thread a few months ago.
Sometimes you might want some air flow without it being heated air. Being able to turn off the resistive heater is better than having to guess at the correct interior temp setting would allow that to happen.
I was hoping you'd have the ability to control which sets of vents are open - that's one thing I hate about my wife's carI know the front and rear defrost can come on during pre-conditioning, but I don't think I've seen anything to indicate that the auto climate control will automatically direct air to the windshield when needed. The air location seemed manual in the menus.
That is awesome. Right now I have "My View" configured in the instrument panel to show energy consumption for the climate control. When it exceeds 5kW as denoted by the "+" sign then I know the PTC is on and then have to scramble to figure out what climate control setting is causing it to activate. Love that I can disable it since I never really use it where I live.
ok got it thanks
I think I remember seeing manual sliders on the vents to close them.
Right, but in my wife's car you can't turn on the foot vents and middle vents at the same time; in the summer it's nice to have cold air coming out of multiple levels to cool off faster
I think it’s because it never gets driven enough to figure out it’s actual range.
Im going to hit that with my knee everytime i get in and out of the carAnother odd thing I forgot to mention. There's a physical button for max front defrost on the left side of the dash over by the headlight dial. I think it's nice that there's a quick way to blast the front defrost when you need it, but I find the placement of the button odd.
It's something the PHEVs and FFE should absolutely have had from the beginning to help avoid "reheat" scenarios especially where you're spending that limited battery range on the A/C and heater fighting each other.
You will drive yourself crazy by looking at range calculations from a demo vehicle. Just imagine how these things are driven. It only has 95 miles on it so far but I bet more than half of that was very spirited. The range calculations are going to be useless until the vehicle is driven in a responsible manner.
I pointed it out in another comment so I'm not going to retype the whole thing, but you can use that button to help save energy by turning off the heater before you arrive at your destination if you're willing to endure slightly cooler discharge air.
