Great. What are your environment conditions?My heat works great
It reduces the amount of work the heater has to do when you go for a drive. It only takes 2-3 kWh to heat the battery, so cost will be less than 50¢ for most people. Having the battery warm increases the amount of heat for the cabin since the heat doesn’t have to be diverted to heat the pack.What is the idea with this? Just keeping it warm for something todo? Costs about 2$ per precondition where I am. You could set two per day and keep in a reasonable range I suppose incase one had to go somewhere in the cold.
Awesome! Do you drive on the highway and in -20c weather ?My heat works great
And this is why every BEV owner is an early adopter. The average person will not put up with what we have to do to enjoy our cars.All this preconditioning, keeping the battery warm, etc. is really silly to me. Electric cars are supposed to be simpler than ICE, not more complicated, and certainly not something that should require this amount of micro management.
Ford should have more thoroughly tested this vehicle in temperate climates, especially in places like Canada, Sweden, etc.
You should be able to turn the car on, turn the heat on max, and be able to drive. If it requires battery power to keep the battery itself warm when parked outside, so be it. But there's no reason why people should be freezing in their cars when it gets cold.
I find that it works reliably if you like lock/unlock the door first to establish connection with the car and app, and then set the departure time, I use it on days where temp is below freezing like 15 min before I leave with cabin temp set to off to help warm the battery a bit ( It does not get crazy cold near NYC, but I do it as mach-lee points out that the car puts too much Regen energy back into a cold pack)Setting a departure schedule through the app works for you?
PAAK works as a connection too. It never failed me with starting.I find that it works reliably if you like lock/unlock the door first to establish connection with the car and app, and then set the departure time, I use it on days where temp is below freezing like 15 min before I leave with cabin temp set to off to help warm the battery a bit ( It does not get crazy cold near NYC, but I do it as mach-lee points out that the car puts too much Regen energy back into a cold pack)
Paak and remote start work here too it is schedule that does not. I have tried the wake it up trick a few times and it works the problem with that thou is it is not consistent for me. Just confirmation that it does not work well for @HGxxx either. Play games and babysit the car.PAAK works as a connection too. It never failed me with starting.
I picked up one of these to play around with:Wow bad times. I wonder if an usb heater would supplement the car heating when it’s really bad?
Ours keeps hot air coming out of ducts on the dash at 120 degrees when it was -10FGreat. What are your environment conditions?